Zachary Levi Pugh, an American actor and singer, was born on September 29, 1980. He won praise from critics for his performances as Chuck Bartowski in the television series Chuck and as the lead in Shazam! and its 2023 prequel. Both roles were part of the DC Extended Universe. He performed “I See the Light” with Mandy Moore in the 2010 animated film Tangled, in which he voiced Flynn Rider. The song won a Grammy Award for Best Song Written for Visual Media. He returned to the voice role in 2012 animated short Tangled Ever After and the 2017 Disney Channel television series Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure. He played Fandral in the Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok movies from the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Zachary Levi Controversy
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Fans were shocked when the actor quoted Lyndon Wood, a British TV host and business consultant who boasts in his Twitter bio that he has been called “anti-vax” and “transphobic,” and asked who concurred that Pfizer is “a real danger to the world.” One of the pharmaceutical firms that make COVID-19 vaccines is Pfizer. Levi tweeted, “Hardcore agree,” which many people took to mean that he was against vaccinations.
Levi did not elaborate further on his comment. He only posted a link to a 2009 press release from the Department of Justice’s website announcing a $2.3 billion settlement that Pfizer would pay for misbranding its anti-inflammatory drug Bextra. This week, co-chairs of DC Films, James Gunn and Peter Safran, discussed their ideas for the franchise’s future while answering questions.
At a press conference on Monday, Gunn reportedly said, “Actors and filmmakers that I work with are going to say things that I agree with and things that I don’t agree with.” “And that will take place. I don’t have a list of things that, in my opinion, someone ought to say. I can’t keep altering my plans whenever a performer says something I’m afraid I have to disagree with.’
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Zachary Levi Early Life
The son of Darrell Pugh and Susan Marie (née Hoctor; 1950–2015), Levi was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He is of Welsh, German, and English descent. When he was a child, his family relocated across several states before settling back in Ventura, California, where he spent four years at Buena High School.
At the Ojai Art Center, he made his stage debut at the age of six, playing the lead in local productions of Grease, The Outsiders, Oklahoma!, Oliver!, The Wizard of Oz, and Big River. Levi returned to the role of Flynn Rider in the Disney Channel Original Film Tangled: Before Ever After in 2017. The story was continued in this film as a regular television series called Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure, which ran for three seasons from March 24, 2017, to March 1, 2020.
Zachary Levi and Mandy Moore are back to lend their voices to the animated series based on the 2010 movie Tangled. In the second season of The Marvelous Mrs Maisel in 2018, Levi played Dr Benjamin Ettenberg, a love interest for Miriam “Midge” Maisel. Levi shared the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series with the other prominent cast members.
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Zachary Levi Career Foundation
Levi first appeared in the Big Shot: Confessions of a Campus Bookie episode of the FX television series. On the ABC sitcom Less than Perfect, he portrayed Kipp Steadman. Also he additionally played a potential love interest for Charisma Carpenter’s Jane in the See Jane Date television movie. Levi was slated to play the lead role in the ABC television series 2004–2005 season Three pilot, but the project was not picked up.
In 2007, he was cast as the lead in Chuck. Levi and his co-star from Chuck, Yvonne Strahovski, were nominated for the 2010 Teen Choice Awards’ Best Action Actor and Actress Choice TV Series categories, which they both went on to win and present. Levi was recognised as one of Entertainment Weekly’s Top Thirty People Under Thirty in the summer of 2008. He later starred in the film Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel in the lead role as Dave’s cousin Toby Seville.
