Jason Biggs: Biography
Born in New Jersey to Angela, a nurse, and Gary, a shipping-company manager, Jason was in the middle child between two girls, Heather and Chiara. In 1991, at age 13, he won a part on the FOX sitcom Drexell's Class, and thus began his professional acting career. He and his mother moved to Los Angeles in hopes of success that were quickly washed away as the series was cancelled after one season. Upon returning home, Jason grabbed a role on Broadway as Judd Hirsch's son in the play Conversations with My Father, which brought the young actor a great deal of critical acclaim. This attention helped earn him a spot on As the World Turns, as the rebellious Pete Wendall. This year-long role earned the actor a nomination for Best Younger Actor in a Drama Series at the Daytime Emmy's.
Jason Biggs: Career
At the age of fifteen, he joined the cast of the daytime drama As The World Turns as Pete Wendall. His performance on the show, on which he appeared from 1994 to 1995, earned him a Daytime Emmy nomination. With this honor to his name, Biggs segued into film a short time later, debuting in the 1997 Camp Stories.
In 1999, the unequivocal hit that was American Pie came along, and Biggs, portraying Jim, one of the more perpetually humiliated members of a group of four friends trying to lose their virginity by high-school graduation, made an undeniably distinct impression on critics and audiences alike. Riding high on his success, he soon entered into a two-picture deal with Miramax and a development project with 20th Century Fox Television, ensuring that his career had certainly gotten off to an auspicious and memorable start.
In the two years following Pie, Biggs' recently-won popularity was evidenced by his starring roles in a number of films. Included amongst them were Robert Iscove's Boys and Girls, which cast the actor as a college student, and Amy Heckerling's Loser, in which Biggs again set foot on a college campus to play a social misfit in love with an unattainable girl (Pie co-star Mena Suvari). Pairing the young star with two comic actors 10 years his senior (Jack Black and Steve Zahn), Saving Silverman followed in early 2001; with it, Biggs completed a triumverate of critical and commercial failures.
Finding himself in need of a comeback at the ripe old age of 23, Biggs seemed poised to do just that later in the year, beginning with his reprisal of the bumbling post-adolescent Jim in American Pie 2. Taking a step back from leading roles, the actor then poked fun at the movie industry with a cameo in director Kevin Smith's satire Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back before playing a supporting part opposite Christina Ricci in the big-screen adaptation of Elizabeth Wurtzel's memoir, Prozac Nation. After rounding out the American Pie trilogy with 2003's American Wedding, Biggs would once again appear opposite Ricci in the Woody Allen comedy{ {#Anything Else (also 2003). Though the film may have performed fairly well with teens at the box office given the names of the young stars involved, an 'R' rating from the MPAA was likely the culprit in relegating the movie to little more than a brief "blip" on the box-office radar.
In 2004, Biggs returned to the screen with a supporting-role in Jersey Girl, which reteamed him with Smith but was plagued by scathing reviews and the stigma of the "Bennifer" fiasco of 2003
Jason Biggs: Films
Eight Below (2006), Guy X (2005), Prozac Nation (2004), Jersey Girl (2004), American Wedding (2003) , Anything Else (2003), Prozac Nation (2001), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), American Pie 2 (2001), Saving Silverman (2001), Loser (2000), aka Loser, The (2000) , Boys and Girls (2000) , Spotlight on Location: American Pie (1999) (TV), ... aka Making of 'American Pie', The (1999) (TV), American Pie (1999), Camp Stories (1997), "As the World Turns" (1956) TV Series, "Drexell's Class" (1991) TV Series, Boy Who Cried Bitch, The (1991)
