Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor who is best known for his role as Jim Levenstein in the American Pie trio of teen sex comedies.

Personal life

Biggs was born in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, the son of Angela, a nurse, and Gary Biggs, a shipping company manager.TeenHollywood.com - Jason Biggs is HotJason Biggs Biography (1978-) He grew up in Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School there.McKinley, Jesse. "THEATER; Bye, Bye 'American Pie'; Mrs. Robinson Is Calling", The New York Times, March 31, 2002. Accessed March 3, 2008. "Unlike that character, Mr. Biggs was proving to be a pretty normal teenager, playing high school tennis and holding a series of menial jobs (flower delivery boy, sandwich maker, kitchen staff at a hospital). In 1996, he graduated from Hasbrouck Heights High School and started at New York University, where he enrolled in the College of Arts and Sciences." Biggs had success in athletics while in high school, both in tennis and in wrestling. He won a state title his senior year and advanced to the final rounds in a national tournament.

Biggs has discussed in interviews how he is often cast as an explicitly or implicitly Jewish character, as he was in American Pie (other examples include Darren Silverman or Jerry Falk), despite the fact that Biggs himself is Italian American and Roman Catholic.A Nice Not-Jewish BoyJason Biggs - Times Online