Jason Biggs

Jason Matthew Biggs was born on May 12, 1978, in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, to Angela Biggs, a nurse of Sicilian descent, and Gary Louis Biggs, a shipping company manager of English and Italian descent. Biggs was raised Roman Catholic and grew up in Hasbrouck Heights, where he attended Hasbrouck Heights High School and competed in tennis. He later enrolled at New York University before transferring to Montclair State University, which he eventually left to pursue acting full time.

Biggs began appearing in commercials at the age of five in 1983, and at age ten received his Screen Actors Guild card for a Pathmark television commercial. His Broadway career began at age twelve, when he appeared in Conversations with My Father alongside Judd Hirsch. He went on to accumulate Broadway credits spanning from 1992 to 2015, which also included The Play What I Wrote, The Graduate, and The Heidi Chronicles, the latter of which opened on March 19, 2015. In The Graduate, staged in 2002, Biggs played Benjamin Braddock opposite Kathleen Turner and Alicia Silverstone.

During the mid-1990s, Biggs joined the cast of the daytime soap opera As the World Turns, a role that earned him a Daytime Emmy Award nomination for Best Younger Actor. His television work had begun earlier with the short-lived FOX series Drexell's Class in 1991, and he later appeared in the 1997 series Total Security. In 2011, he starred in Mad Love, and in 2020 he headlined the comedy series Outmatched. From 2013 through 2019, Biggs portrayed Larry Bloom in the Netflix series Orange Is the New Black, departing after two seasons in February 2015 before returning for later installments. Between 2012 and 2014, he voiced Leonardo in the Nickelodeon animated series Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a role subsequently taken over permanently by Seth Green beginning in the show's third season.

Biggs became widely recognized for his lead role as Jim Levenstein in the American Pie film franchise, beginning with the original 1999 film and continuing through American Reunion in 2012. His other film credits include Loser (2000), Saving Silverman (2001), Anything Else (2003), in which he played Jerry Falk in a Woody Allen romantic comedy, My Best Friend's Girl (2008), Life Happens (2011), Grassroots (2012), and Best. Christmas. Ever! (2023), in which he starred as Rob Sanders alongside Brandy, Heather Graham, and Matt Cedeño. In 2010, Biggs contributed a poem titled "Scratch-and-Sniff" to the New Jersey literary anthology What's Your Exit? published by Word Riot Press.

In January 2008, Biggs became engaged to actress Jenny Mollen, his co-star in My Best Friend's Girl, and the two married on April 23, 2008. The couple has two sons, born in February 2014 and October 2017, respectively. After selling their Los Angeles home near the Sunset Strip in 2015, the family relocated to Manhattan's West Village neighborhood. Biggs has received a Screen Actors Guild Award and has been nominated for both a Daytime Emmy Award and a Satellite Award.