Jason Matthew Biggs was born in the Pompton Plains section of Pequannock Township, New Jersey, to Angela Zocco, a nurse, and Gary Louis Biggs, a shipping company manager. Biggs’ father is of English and Italian descent, as his paternal grandmother, Assunta Furno, was a Neapolitan woman and all of her relatives were from Napoli. Biggs’ mother is of Sicilian descent.
Biggs grew up in Hasbrouck Heights and attended Hasbrouck Heights High School, where he achieved success in tennis. Biggs attended New York University before transferring to Montclair State University where he eventually dropped out.
Biggs began acting at the age of five. In 1991, he made his television debut in the short lived FOX series Drexell’s Class. In 1988, 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.”
Biggs attended New York University briefly from 1996–1997, but soon afterwards, he returned to pursue acting. And so he would be seen again in another short lived television series, 1997’s Camp Stories. He then starred in American Pie, which went on to become an international hit that has spawned three sequels (also starring Biggs) and four spinoffs (that did not star Biggs). After that, Biggs accepted starring roles in movies such as Loser in 2000, and others. 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. Biggs has appeared in several other films, including Eight Below and Over Her Dead Body.
Biggs reprised his role as Jim Levenstein in American Reunion, which was released on April 6, 2012. In the summer of 2012, Biggs took a job voicing Leonardo on Nickelodeon in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It was announced in September 2014 that Biggs would star on Broadway in The Heidi Chronicles.