jason biggs

Jason Biggs. Jason Biggs gained overnight recognition for his role in the 1999 summer smash American Pie. As the boy who put the American in the Pie, Biggs earned a place alongside There's Something About Mary's Ben Stiller on the screen roster of Most Embarrassing Moments Involving Genitalia and Inanimate Objects. What many people who saw him as an overnight success didn't realize, however, was that he'd actually been acting--on the screen, stage, and television--for most of his young life.

A native of Pompton Plains, New Jersey, where he was born May 12, 1978, Biggs began modeling and acting in commercials when he was a small child. When he was barely an adolescent, the young actor made his Broadway debut opposite Judd Hirsch in the acclaimed play Conversations With My Father and landed a recurring role on the short-lived sitcom Drexell's Class around the same time. At the age of fifteen, he joined the cast of the daytime drama As The World Turns as Pete Wendall. His performance on the show, on which he appeared from 1994 to 1995, earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination. With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.

In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high-school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike. Riding high on his success, he soon entered into a two-picture deal with Miramax and a development project with 20th Century Fox Television, ensuring that his career had certainly gotten off to an auspicious and memorable start.

In 2000, Biggs' recently won popularity was evidenced by his starring roles in a number of films. Included amongst them were Robert Iscove's Boys and Girls, which cast the actor as a college student, and Amy Heckerling's Loser, in which Biggs again set foot on a college campus to play a social misfit in love with an unattainable girl (Pie co-star Mena Suvari).

Filmography
Anything Else (2003)
Prozac Nation (2001) .... Rafe
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) (uncredited) .... Himself
American Pie 2 (2001) .... James Emmanuel 'Jim' Levenstein
Saving Silverman (2001) .... Darren Silverman
2000 MTV Movie Awards (2000) (TV) .... Presenter
Loser (2000) .... Paul Tannek
... aka Loser, The (2000) (USA)
Boys and Girls (2000) .... Hunter/Steve
Spotlight on Location: American Pie (1999) (TV) .... Himself
... aka Making of 'American Pie', The (1999) (TV) (USA: DVD title)
American Pie (1999) .... Jim Levinstein
Camp Stories (1997) .... Abby
"As the World Turns" (1956) TV Series .... Pete Wendall (1994-1995)
"Drexell's Class" (1991) TV Series .... Willie Trancas (1991)
Boy Who Cried Bitch, The (1991) .... Robert

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