Eugene Levy: Quick Facts

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Born	December 17, 1946 (age 79) • Hamilton • Canada

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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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Yvonne De Carlo

Canadian-American actress

Catherine O'Hara smiles at the camera, wearing a black pinstripe blazer and black shirt, with shoulder-length blonde hair against a blue background.

Catherine O’Hara

Canadian actress

Martin Short smiling and wearing a dark pinstripe jacket at an event, with a dark background and other people partially visible behind him.

Martin Short

Canadian actor

Steve Martin, wearing glasses and a black tuxedo with a bow tie, smiles while posing at the 2015 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills.

Steve Martin

American actor and writer

Jane Lynch smiling at an event, wearing a black jacket with a purple top and a delicate necklace.

Jane Lynch

American actress and comedian

Diane Keaton smiling at an event in 2007, wearing glasses, a white collared shirt, and a layered black beaded necklace.

Diane Keaton

American actress and director

David Cross

David Cross

American writer, comedian, and actor

Robin Williams wearing a dark plaid jacket and black shirt, smiling slightly and looking to the side, with blurred lights in the background.

Robin Williams

American comedian and actor

Ricky Gervais stands on stage wearing a black t-shirt and jeans, smiling with his hands on his hips against a dark background.

Ricky Gervais

English comedian

Elliot Page smiles while posing in a black tuxedo with a bow tie against a dark background at the LACMA Art and Film Gala.

Elliot Page

Canadian actor

Seth Rogen wearing glasses, a light blue suit, and a patterned tie, smiling at an event in 2019.

Seth Rogen

Canadian actor and screenwriter

Brendan Fraser smiles and holds up his Oscar trophy while wearing a black tuxedo after winning Best Actor for The Whale at the 2022 Academy Awards.

Brendan Fraser

American-Canadian actor

Michael Cera standing against a vertically striped metallic background, wearing a blue button-up shirt with sunglasses hanging from the collar.

Michael Cera

Canadian actor

Sarah Polley

Sarah Polley

Canadian actor, director, writer, and producer

Ryan Gosling wearing a dark suit, white shirt, and brown tie, posing at an event in 2016 with a gray background behind him.

Ryan Gosling

Canadian actor

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Alberta Watson

Canadian actress

Dan Aykroyd

Dan Aykroyd

Canadian American comedian and actor

Leonard Nimoy as Mr. Spock and William Shatner as Captain Kirk stand side by side holding phasers on the set of the original Star Trek television series.

William Shatner

Canadian actor

Jim Carrey smiling at an event, wearing a dark jacket and scarf, with a light blue background behind him.

Jim Carrey

Canadian American comedian

Norm Macdonald

Norm Macdonald

Canadian actor and comedian