Dan Levy

At 41 years old, Dan Levy has this physical status:

Daniel Joseph Levy (born August 9, 1983) is a Canadian actor, writer, editor, and television presenter.

He is the son of comedian and actor Eugene Levy and screenwriter Deborah Divine Levy.

Dan Levy hosted an aftershow for The Hills, which aired on MTV Canada for many years. He currently stars in Schitt's Creek, a scripted comedy film created with his father.

Among other accolades, he has received several Canadian Screen Awards for his work on the series.

Early life

Levy, the son of Deborah Divine and Canadian actor Eugene Levy, was born in Toronto, Ontario. He is older brother of actress Sarah Levy, who appeared in Schitt's Creek with waitress Twyla Sands, in which Levy and his father appeared. Levy attended high school at North Toronto Collegiate Institute and later pursued film production at York University and Ryerson University.

Both Christmas and Hanukkah are in honor of his family. Levy's father is Jewish and his mother is Protestant; he had a bar mitzvah.

Personal life

Since living in London in 2005, Levy divides his time between Toronto and Los Angeles, but he has said that London is his "favourite city."

Levy had previously refused to reveal his sexual orientation in a private interview with Flare, but he was dubbed "a member of the LGBT group" in a 2015 interview with Flare. Levy, in a 2020 interview with Andy Cohen, said he is clearly gay and has been out since he was 18.

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Career

Levy began his work as one of the original seven co-hosts on the now defunct MTV Canada flagship program MTV Live. He came to fame as co-host (with Jessi Cruickshank) of MTV Canada's The After Show and its various iterations, such as The Hills: Live After Show and The City. These shows were also broadcast in the United States.

Following the Aftershow's cancellation and Cruickshank's departure, Levy wrote, produced, and appeared in his own Christmas Special for MTV, Daniel Levy's MTV's "Do's & Don'ts," as well as national coverage of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics for CTV. (Levy completed the Olympic torch relay on a leg). After five years with MTV Canada, Levy left the show in 2011.

He has appeared in a four-episode story arc of the Canadian television series Degrassi: The Next Generation, which premiered as a TV film called Degrassi Goes Hollywood. Levy played a film producer who hired Paige Michalchuk as the lead in a new film directed by actor Jason Mewes in his Degrassi arc. He appeared in the 2012 thriller Cyberstalker and in the 2013 comedy-drama film Admission, both starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.

Levy and his father Eugene Levy and principals Andrew Barnsley and Fred Levy formed Not a Real Company Productions in 2013. Schitt's Creek was their first project, which resulted in a television pilot with CBC. Levy, his father, sister Sarah Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Annie Murphy, and Chris Elliott appeared in the series as Levy, Peter Levy. It's not a Real Company Productions' first television series. Levy has spoken out in support of his character's pansexual portrayal, saying, "I think in those parts of America, David's sexual ambiguity was a big question mark." (But) it was topics like that that I find so exciting.

Levy has been nominated for numerous national Screen Awards for writing and acting on Schitt's Creek, as well as Best Comedy Series, Best Writing in a Comedy Program or Series in 2016 and Best Comedy Series in 2019. In 2019, the series was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series. Levy, a television presenter, revealed in March 2019 that the series had been renewed for a sixth and final season, and that the decision to end the series after season six on their own terms was a "rare privilege."

Levy will host The Great Canadian Baking Show with Julia Chan in July 2017, which had its premiere on CBC on November 1st. In a commentary on the show's first episode, controversy arose when John Doyle of The Globe and Mail attacked the show's first episode. The article included a critique of Levy's "feyness" as host and a remark at CBC's nepotism. Levy, who acknowledged the importance of criticism in media, called the use of the word "feyness" "offensive, irresponsible, and homophobic." "Mr. Doyle was unaware that Mr. Levy was gay, and he used the word to mean preciousness," the Globe's public editor, Sylvia Stead, wrote on September 9th. "We need to know not just the language, but also how they change and are perceived by cultures that can be just as sensitive to a variety of meanings," she said. For the series's second season, Levy and Chan appear as hosts. Levy revealed on Twitter that he and Chan will not be returning as hosts for the series's third season, citing scheduling conflicts.

He was the keynote speaker at EEEEEATSCON, The Infatuation's annual food festival in May 2019.

Queerty named him one of the Pride50 "trailblazing individuals" who promote equality, recognition, and respect for all queer people in June 2019.

Ellen Levy and his dad Eugene Levy were guest hosts of The Ellen DeGeneres Show in January 2020, filling in for Ellen while she took a day off. Catherine O'Hara and Annie Murphy participated in several of the regular host duties, including interviewing Catherine O'Hara and Annie Murphy.

Schitt's Creek was nominated for 15 Primetime Emmy Awards in its final season in July 2020, with Levy winning Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series, Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, and Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series. It was the first comedy series to win all four major acting awards in a single year, and the first comedy or drama series to win all seven major awards in a single year, defeating The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel's record. Levy was also the first person to receive an award in any of the four major disciplines in a single year.

Levy and the University of Alberta's 10-week self-paced Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), "Indigenous Canada", hosted by Dr. Tracy Bear (Montreal Lake First Nation) and Dr. Paul Gareau (Métis and French Canadian) in August 2020. In addition, Levy hosted twelve livestream interviews with course leaders and weekly guest speakers to address topics relating to each of the 12 course modules. The weekly discussions, Levy said on a tweet on November 15, 2020, were "nothing less than transformational." The University of Alberta's Faculty of Native Studies, the only faculty of its kind in North America, has also encouraged followers and participants to contribute to the University of Alberta's Faculty of Native Studies, promising to match funds up to $25,000.

In September 2020, Levy appeared alongside Bette Midler, Kaitlyn Dever, Sarah Paulson, and Issa Rae in the HBO television film Coastal Elites. The initiative was carried out remotely and concentrated on five people who were coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.

On February 6, 2021, Levy hosted Saturday Night Live with Grammy-nominated musician Phoebe Bridgers as the musical guest.

Levy joined ABC Signature in September 2019 for a three-year contract. In September 2021, Levy announced that it had signed a multi-year deal with Netflix to write and produce scripted content for film and television.

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