Shawn levy is a well-known Canadian-born film director and actor, famous for bringing the remakes of “Cheaper by the Dozen”.
Shawn Adam Levy born in 1967 in the city of Montreal, located in the cold Québec from Canada.
After completing his secondary school studies in his hometown, he decided that he had sufficient ability to enter the education of the USA, for which he took an aptitude test and enrolled at Yale University.
There he graduated with honors and began looking for work as an actor. At first things were not very easy for him, but he soon landed some minor roles in productions such as “Thirtysometing” Y “Beverly Hills, 90210”.
After this he kept filming for Nickelodeon and films for the whole family until 1997 decided to become a director and debuted with “Just in time”, A dramatic comedy.
He then continued working with low budgets, such as the employee to perform “Address Unknown”, After which he decided to put the cinema aside to direct some television series.
Some of them were very successful at that time, such as “The Secret World of Alex Mack“,”The Journey of Allen Strange“,”Animorphs“,”First wave” and also “The Famous Jett Jackson”.
After this time on television, he returned to the cinema with “Big Fat Liar”One of the first feature films in which they participated Frankie muniz Y Amanda Bynes, leading to Paul giamatti as an antagonist and counting on the help of Donald faison.
Shortly after, in the 2003, premiered “Just married”A comedy for teenagers, with the typical simple and efficient humor that characterizes Ashton Kutcher, this time with Brittany murphy like your partner.
That same year, he directed the remake of “Cheaper by the Dozen” next to Steve Martin, Tom welling Y Hilary Duff. After this he made a couple of productions for television and only returned to the cinema in the 2006.
This time he focused on “The Pink Panther”, Working again with Steve Martin to whom was added the genius and sobriety of the impressive Jean Reno. That same year he directed “A Night at the Museum” with Ben stiller, Robin williams, Owen wilson Y Carla gugino.
Supposedly for him 2009 would release an update of “The Hardy Boys“Which they would call”Hardy men”And would lead to Tom cruise Y Ben stiller as protagonists.