Jason Matthew Biggs (born May 12, 1978) is an American and Italian actor, director, and producer. From 1999 to 2012, he starred as Jim Levenstein in the American Pie film series. His other lead credits for film include Loser (2000), Saving Silverman (2001), Anything Else (2003), My Best Friend's Girl (2008), Life Happens (2011), Grassroots (2012), and Best. Christmas. Ever! (2023).
In television, Biggs is known for his lead roles as the voice of Leonardo in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012–2014) and Larry Bloom in the Netflix original series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2014; 2017; 2019). The latter won him a Screen Actors Guild Award. His other television lead credits include Drexell's Class (1991–1992), Total Security (1997), Mad Love (2011), and Outmatched (2020). From 1994 to 1995, Biggs also had a supporting role on the soap opera As the World Turns (1994–1995).
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Early life and education
Jason Matthew Biggs was born on May 12, 1978, in Pompton Plains, New Jersey, to Angela (née Zocco), a nurse, and Gary Louis Biggs, a shipping company manager. His father is of English and Italian descent and his mother is of Sicilian descent. His last name is derived from his English ancestry. He was raised Catholic.
Biggs grew up in Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School, where he achieved success in tennis. He attended New York University before transferring to Montclair State University, where he eventually dropped out.
Career
Biggs began acting in commercials at the age of five in 1983. In 1991, he made his television debut in the short-lived FOX series Drexell's Class.
In 1988, aged 10, he received his Screen Actors Guild card for appearing in a TV commercial for Pathmark. He later recalled in a 2015 interview in TV Guide, "I remember I had to eat a doughnut in one of the shots. Over and over again. Awesome."
When Biggs was 12, he debuted on Broadway in Conversations with My Father with Judd Hirsch. He then starred in the daytime soap opera As the World Turns, for which he was nominated for the Daytime Emmy Award for Best Younger Actor.
Biggs attended New York University briefly from 1996 to 1997, but left to pursue acting. In 1997, he appeared in a short-lived television series called Camp Stories. He starred in 1999's American Pie, which went on to become an international hit that has spawned three sequels (also starring Biggs) and five spinoffs (that did not star Biggs). He accepted starring roles in movies such as Loser in 2000, and others. He also starred (along with his Loser co-star Mena Suvari) in the music video for the song "Teenage Dirtbag" by American rock band Wheatus. In 2001, Biggs starred in the comedy Saving Silverman.
He appeared in the 2002 Broadway production of The Graduate as Benjamin Braddock alongside Kathleen Turner and Alicia Silverstone. In 2003, Biggs appeared as Jerry Falk in the Woody Allen romantic comedy Anything Else. In the 2004–2005 season, Biggs portrayed an Orthodox Jew in Daniel Goldfarb's comedy, Modern Orthodox, staged at Dodger Stages theater in New York City. In 2006, Biggs was seen in the MTV reality show Blowin' Up with Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone which led to his participation in a hip-hop recording with Bay Area rapper E-40. Biggs returned to the stage in the fall of 2008 in Howard Korder's Boys' Life at New York City's Second Stage Theatre.
Biggs has appeared in several other films, including Eight Below and Over Her Dead Body. In 2010, Biggs made his literary debut by contributing "Scratch-and-Sniff", a poem about growing up in New Jersey, to the anthology What's Your Exit? A Literary Detour through New Jersey (Word Riot Press, 2010). In 2012, he contributed to the anthology Oy! Only Six? Why Not More: Six-Word Memoirs on Jewish Life with the self-ironic article "This is a Roman nose, OK?" (Biggs is not Jewish.) A year later, Larry Smith, the editor of the anthology, and creator of Six-Word Memoirs, would be the basis for Biggs's Orange Is the New Black character Larry Bloom. He departed the series in February 2015 after two seasons.
Personal life
In January 2008, Biggs became engaged to his My Best Friend's Girl co-star, actress Jenny Mollen; they married on April 23, 2008. They have a son who was born on February 15, 2014. A second son was born on October 2, 2017. Biggs and Mollen sold their house in Los Angeles, California, situated near the Sunset Strip in 2015 and moved to Manhattan, New York City. As of 2017, the family resided in the West Village. In May 2026, it was reported Biggs and Mollen had separated.
From 2012 to 2014, Biggs regularly caused controversy with his posts on Twitter by making sexual jokes about Ann Romney and Janna Ryan in response to the 2012 Republican National Convention; by joking about the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 in 2014; by joking about Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which was shot down in 2014; and by mocking the death of The Bachelorette contestant Eric Hill. In a 2012 interview, Biggs stated that he has "a very fucked up sense of humor" and said he enjoyed the ability to "surprise people on a daily basis" on Twitter because his real personality is so different from those of the characters he usually plays. He apologized for and deleted his tweet about Malaysian Flight 17; in a later interview, he said that it had led to death threats against him.
In 2023, Biggs and his wife Mollen signed the "No Hostage Left Behind Letter", an open letter to US President Joe Biden demanding the release of all hostages from the October 7 attacks.
Biggs has Italian citizenship.
Biggs has struggled with addictions to drugs and alcohol. In 2025, he stated that he had reached seven years of sobriety.