A filmmaker of youthful vigor and a penchant notwithstanding lightweight, family-friendly comedies, Shawn Levy made a comfortable metastasis into features following ascendancy on video receiver with efforts for the benefit of The Disney Avenue and Nickelodeon. Following his graduation with honors from Yale University at the stage of 20, he moved to Los Angeles and landed roles on such minor-screen staples as thirtysomething and Beverly Hills 90210, in addition to features like Zombie N... ightmare (1986) and The Desert (1988). He also became interested in the behind-the-scenes aspects of filmmaking, and soon turned his attention to directing with studies at the University of Southern California, where he completed a know inside out's situation. Levy's shortened film Disobeyed Not for publication also earned the Gold Plaque at the Chicago Film Festival, as spectacularly as accolades from the Director's Guild of America. His former television later come in convenient as the up-and-coming skipper took the leadership payment the popular Nickelodeon series The Mystery Rapturous of Alex Mack, seeing that which he was nominated for a DGA Outstanding Directorial Acquisition in Children's Programs award in 1998 on account of the episode "Lies and Secrets." In the years that followed, Levy built a strong working relationship with Nickelodeon and The Disney Pass thanks to such series as The Wander of Allen Strange and The Illustrious Jett Jackson (the highest-rated movie to that point for The Disney Channel). In 1997, the official made his feature debut with the little-seen comedy screenplay Reasonable in Obsolescent, and in the years that followed, his m‚tier gained energy thanks to such made-for-TV efforts as Jett Jackson: The Large screen.

He stepped into the big leagues in 2002 with the main attraction Grave Fat Liar. Starring Malcolm in the Centre mischief-maker Frankie Muniz as a young schoolboy whose give it turns into a hit movie after falling into the hands of a cheap Hollywood impresario, Big Fertility Liar earned healthy case-office returns. Before you know it thereafter, Levy returned to the limited screen to dictate episodes of Do Closed and Birds of Dupe fit the WB network. The following year proved to be a energetic one as fortunately, and after directing the passably famous Ashton Kutcher/Brittany Murphy comedy Due Married, Levy had another hit on his hands with the gamy-promote Hollywood remake Cheaper past the Dozen.

In 2004, he stepped behind the camera alongside producer Ivan Reitman to tell The Pink Panther, a remake of the original Blake Edwards favorite with Cheaper nearby the Dozen patriarch Steve Martin in the role of the bumbling Inspector Clouseau.