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Eugene Levy smiles at the camera, wearing round black glasses, a dark tuxedo jacket with satin lapels, a white shirt, and a black bow tie. Eugene Levy, as Jim's father, sits beside Jason Biggs, as Jim, in a bedroom scene from the movie American Pie, both looking at each other seriously. Catherine O'Hara, Annie Murphy, Eugene Levy, and Daniel Levy stand side by side on a roadside, dressed in character for Schitt's Creek, with trees in the background.
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Eugene Levy Canadian actor and writer Eugene Levy, 2023.

Eugene Levy

Canadian actor
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Eugene Levy (born December 17, 1946, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) is a Canadian actor and writer, especially known for playing comedic characters who are well-meaning but often dim-witted. He notably portrayed Noah Levenstein in the American Pie movies and cocreated and starred in the hit TV series Schitt’s Creek (2015–20). Levy is one of three children born to Rebecca Levy (nĂ©e Kudlats), a homemaker, and Joseph Levy, an automobile-plant foreman. His mother, an Ashkenazi Jew, had...

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