Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor and
comedian. He is known for playing Jim Levenstein in the American Pie
comedy film series, and Larry Bloom in the Netflix original series
Orange Is the New Black. He also starred in Boys and Girls, Loser,
Saving Silverman, Anything Else, Jersey Girl, Eight Below, Over Her
Dead Body, and My Best Friend's Girl. Biggs initially gained
recognition from his role in the soap opera As the World Turns, for
which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Younger Actor in a Drama Series in 1995.Biggs was born in the Pompton
Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey, to Angela Biggs
(née Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Louis Biggs, a shipping company
manager. Biggs' father is of English and Italian descent and Biggs'
mother is of Sicilian descent. His last name is derived from his
English ancestry. He was raised Roman Catholic.Biggs grew up in
Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School, where he
achieved success in tennis. Biggs attended New York University before
transferring to Montclair State University where he eventually dropped
out.Biggs began acting at the age of five. In 1991, he made his
television debut in the short lived FOX series Drexell's Class. In
1988, he received his Screen Actors Guild card for appearing in a TV
commercial for Pathmark. He later recalled in a 2015 interview in TV
Guide, "I remember I had to eat a doughnut in one of the shots. Over
and over again. Awesome."
comedian. He is known for playing Jim Levenstein in the American Pie
comedy film series, and Larry Bloom in the Netflix original series
Orange Is the New Black. He also starred in Boys and Girls, Loser,
Saving Silverman, Anything Else, Jersey Girl, Eight Below, Over Her
Dead Body, and My Best Friend's Girl. Biggs initially gained
recognition from his role in the soap opera As the World Turns, for
which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Younger Actor in a Drama Series in 1995.Biggs was born in the Pompton
Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey, to Angela Biggs
(née Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Louis Biggs, a shipping company
manager. Biggs' father is of English and Italian descent and Biggs'
mother is of Sicilian descent. His last name is derived from his
English ancestry. He was raised Roman Catholic.Biggs grew up in
Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School, where he
achieved success in tennis. Biggs attended New York University before
transferring to Montclair State University where he eventually dropped
out.Biggs began acting at the age of five. In 1991, he made his
television debut in the short lived FOX series Drexell's Class. In
1988, he received his Screen Actors Guild card for appearing in a TV
commercial for Pathmark. He later recalled in a 2015 interview in TV
Guide, "I remember I had to eat a doughnut in one of the shots. Over
and over again. Awesome."
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