Eugene Levy

Eugene Levy

Eugene Levy CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, and writer. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series SCTV. He has won multiple accolades throughout his career including four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest.

About Eugene Levy in brief

Summary Eugene LevyEugene Levy CM is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, director, and writer. From 1976 until 1984, he appeared in the Canadian television sketch comedy series SCTV. From 2015 to 2020, he starred as Johnny Rose in Schitt’s Creek, a comedy series that he co-created with his son and co-star Dan Levy. He has won multiple accolades throughout his career including four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. He is a regular collaborator of actor-director Christopher Guest, appearing in and writing four of his films, commencing with Waiting for Guffman. Levy received the Governor General’s Performing Arts Award, Canada’s highest honour in the performing arts, in 2008. He was appointed to the Order of Canada on June 30, 2011.

His best-known role on SCTV is the dimwitted Earl Camembert, a news anchor for the \”SCTV News\” and a parody of real-life Canadian newsman Earl Cameron. He also appeared in Splash, National Lampoon’s Vacation, Stay Tuned, Multiplicity, and other comedies. In the 1980s and 1990s, he won the Best Supporting Actor – Musical or Comedy at the prestigious New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best supporting Actor in the New York City Film Festival. He appeared in The Man and The Gun, Armed and Dangerous and The Man-in-the-Box. He starred in the film version of The Godspell, which was directed by Ivan Reitman.