Jason Biggs
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Pompton Plains, New Jersey, USA
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 Jim, 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 the two years following Pie, 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). Pairing the young star with two comic actors 10 years his senior (Jack Black and Steve Zahn), Saving Silverman followed in early 2001; with it, Biggs completed a triumverate of critical and commercial failures.Finding himself in need of a comeback at the ripe old age of 23, Biggs seemed poised to do just that later in the year, beginning with his reprisal of the bumbling post-adolescent Jim in American Pie 2. Taking a step back from leading roles, the actor then poked fun at the movie industry with a cameo in director Kevin Smith's satire Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back before playing a supporting part opposite Christina Ricci in the big-screen adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir, Prozac Nation. After rounding out the American Pie trilogy with 2003's American Wedding, Biggs would once again appear opposite Ricci in the Woody Allen comedy Anything Else (also 2003). Though the film may have performed fairly well with teens at the box office given the names of the young stars involved, an 'R' rating from the MPAA was likely the culprit in relegating the movie to little more than a brief "blip" on the box-office radar. In 2004, Biggs returned to the screen with a supporting-role in Jersey Girl, which reteamed him with Smith but was plagued by scathing reviews and the stigma of the "Bennifer" fiasco of 2003. Biggs would keep a low profile for the next few years, appearing in movies like Eight Below and Wedding Daze before turning to the small screen with the sitcom Mad Love in 2011, alongside Judy Greer and Sarah Chalke. Around that same time, Biggs signed on for another installment in the franchsie that launched his career, reprising the role of Jim in 2012's American Reunion. In 2013, he took on a supporting role in the surprise hit Orange is the New Black, playing Larry Bloom.
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Highest Rated Movies
Filmography
MOVIES
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | BOX OFFICE | YEAR |
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95% | Who We Are Now |
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— | 2018 |
16% | Dear Dictator |
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— | 2018 |
No Score Yet | Angry Angel |
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— | 2017 |
0% | Amateur Night |
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— | 2016 |
No Score Yet | All at Once |
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— | 2016 |
50% | Grassroots |
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$7k | 2012 |
26% | L!fe Happens |
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— | 2012 |
45% | American Reunion |
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$55.4M | 2012 |
No Score Yet | Lower Learning |
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— | 2008 |
14% | My Best Friend's Girl |
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$19.2M | 2008 |
14% | Over Her Dead Body |
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$7.5M | 2008 |
No Score Yet | Farce of the Penguins |
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— | 2007 |
72% | Eight Below |
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$81.6M | 2006 |
33% | Wedding Daze |
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— | 2006 |
42% | Guy X |
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— | 2005 |
42% | Jersey Girl |
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— | 2004 |
40% | Anything Else |
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$3.2M | 2003 |
54% | American Wedding |
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$104.4M | 2003 |
No Score Yet | Full Frame Documentary Shorts |
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— | 2003 |
53% | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back |
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$29.9M | 2001 |
52% | American Pie 2 |
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$144.1M | 2001 |
19% | Saving Silverman |
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$19M | 2001 |
28% | Prozac Nation |
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— | 2001 |
24% | Loser |
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— | 2000 |
11% | Boys and Girls |
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— | 2000 |
61% | American Pie |
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— | 1999 |
No Score Yet | Camp Stories |
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— | 1980 |
No Score Yet | Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel |
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— | 1955 |
TV
RATING | TITLE | CREDIT | YEAR |
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No Score Yet |
Cherries Wild
2021
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22% |
Outmatched
2020
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No Score Yet |
Hollywood Game Night
2013
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No Score Yet |
Match Game
2016-2020
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No Score Yet |
The Wendy Williams Show
2008-2020
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No Score Yet |
Beat Bobby Flay
2014
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No Score Yet |
The View
1997
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41% |
Chelsea
2016-2017
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No Score Yet |
Nightcap
2016-2017
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No Score Yet |
@midnight With Chris Hardwick
2014-2017
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90% |
Orange Is the New Black
2013-2019
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No Score Yet |
Late Night With Seth Meyers
2014
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No Score Yet |
The Chew
2011-2018
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No Score Yet |
Conan
2010
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No Score Yet |
Chelsea Lately
2007-2014
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No Score Yet |
The Talk
2010
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93% |
The Good Wife
2009-2016
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No Score Yet |
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
2005-2014
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No Score Yet |
Jimmy Kimmel Live
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
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No Score Yet |
The Tonight Show With Jay Leno
1992-2014
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43% |
Mad Love
2011
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No Score Yet |
Lopez Tonight
2009-2011
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No Score Yet |
Will & Grace
1998-2006
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93% |
Frasier
1993-2004
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10% |
Off Centre
2001-2002
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14% |
Drexell's Class
1991-1992
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79% |
Chelsea Does
2016
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Quotes from Jason Biggs' Characters
Phil Campbell: | What happens if we do win? |
Kevin: | if sherman has sex before i do im gonna be pissed |
Kevin: | If Sherman has sex before I do, I'm gonna be really pissed. |
Jim Levinstein: | sherman the shermanator |
Jim Levinstein: | Sherman? The Sherminator? [both laugh] |
Jim Levinstein: | god let this be it |
Jim Levinstein: | God, let this be it. |
Michelle Flaherty: | whats my name say my name bitch |
Michelle Flaherty: | What's my name? Say my name, bitch! |
Jim Levinstein: | michelle michelle |
Jim Levinstein: | shes gone oh my god she used me i was used i was used cool |
Jim Levinstein: | She's gone! Oh my God, she used me. I was used. I was used! Cool! |
Jim Levinstein: | guys uh what exactly does thrid base feel like |
Jim Levinstein: | Guys, uh, what exactly does third base feel like? |
Kevin: | you wanna take this one |
Kevin: | You want to take this one? |
Steve Stifler: | what did you cocks do to him |
Steve Stifler: | [at choir practice] What did you cocks do to him? |
Oz: | you came to see me in action |
Oz: | You came to see me in action? |
Jim Levinstein: | yeah man i thought you sounded really good |
Jim Levinstein: | Yeah man, I thought you sounded really good! |
Steve Stifler: | yeah man i think you need your balls reattached |
Steve Stifler: | Yeah man, I think you need your balls reattached! |
Jim Levinstein: | you realize were all going to college as virgins right they probably have special dorms for people like us |
Jim Levinstein: | You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us. |
Jim Levinstein: | i would like to make an annoucement there is a gorgeous woman masturbating on my bed |
Jim Levinstein: | I would like to make an announcement. There is a gorgeous woman masturbating on my bed. |
Jim Levinstein: | Did you see the Little Mermaid on TV the other night? |
Oz: | No. |
Jim Levinstein: | That Ariel, man, she's so hot! |
Kevin Myers: | [raising a glass to toast] Gentlemen, to the next step... |
Jim Levenstein: | Oh will you stop with that "next step" bullshit. |
Jim Levenstein: | Oh will you stop with that 'next step' bullshit. |
Paul Finch: | Put down your glass. |
Jim Levinstein: | This is my first time, since my first time. |
Jim Levinstein: | I kind of super-glued myself to... uh... myself. |
Michelle Flaherty: | What's my name? Say my name, bitch! |
Jim Levinstein: | Michelle! Michelle. |
Jim Levinstein: | She's gone! Oh my God, she used me. I was used. I was used! Cool! |
Jim Levinstein: | "I was always a band geek, I just never joined the band" |
Jim Levinstein: | Nadia, I *am* a band geek. I just never joined the band. |