Jason Biggs
Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American actor. He is best known for playing Jim Levenstein in the American Pie comedy film series, Leonardo in the first two seasons of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012), 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.
Jason Biggs
Actor
1991–present
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Early life and education[edit]
Jason Matthew Biggs[1] was born on May 12, 1978,[2] in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, to Angela (née Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Louis Biggs, a shipping company manager.[3][4] His father is of English and Italian descent and his mother is of Sicilian descent. His last name is derived from his English ancestry.[3] He was raised Roman Catholic.[5]
Biggs grew up in Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School,[6][7] where he achieved success in tennis.[8] He attended New York University before transferring to Montclair State University, where he eventually dropped out.[9][10]
Personal life[edit]
Biggs grew up Catholic.[5][21]
In January 2008, he became engaged to his My Best Friend's Girl co-star, actress Jenny Mollen; they married on April 23, 2008.[22] They have a son, Sid, who was born on February 15, 2014.[23] Their second son, Lazlo, was born on October 2, 2017.[24][25] Biggs and Mollen sold their house in Los Angeles, California, which was situated near the Sunset Strip, in 2015[26] and moved to Manhattan, New York City. The family resides in the West Village, as of 2017.[27]
From 2012 to 2014, Biggs regularly caused controversy with his posts on Twitter, including sexual jokes about Ann Romney and Janna Ryan in response to the 2012 Republican National Convention,[28] joking about the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014,[29] joking about Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down later that year,[30] and mocking the death of The Bachelorette contestant Eric Hill.[31][32]
In a 2012 interview, Biggs stated that he has "a very fucked up sense of humor" and said he enjoyed the ability to "surprise people on a daily basis" on Twitter because his real personality is so different from those of the characters he usually plays.[33]
He apologized for and deleted his tweet about Malaysian Flight 17; in a later interview he said that it had led to death threats against him.[34]