Sam Levinson

Samuel Levinson born January 8 1985 is an American filmmaker and actor He is the son of Academy Awardwinning director Barry Levinson In 2010 he received his first writing credit as a cowriter for the action comedy film Operation Endgame The following year he made his directorial film debut with Another Happy Day 2011 which premiered at Sundance Film Festival He then received a writing credit on his fathers HBO television film The Wizard of Lies 2017 He continued writing and directing feature films for Assassination Nation 2018 and Malcolm Marie 2021  In 2019 Levinson created the HBO teen drama series Euphoria adapted from the Israeli series of the same name The series is popular with audiences and received positive reviews from critics In 2023 he created the HBO series The Idol which was controversial and received negative reviews Description above from the Wikipedia article Sam Levinson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia