Canadian actor, screenwriter and director Daniel Levy was BOTD in 1983. Born in Toronto, he is the son of comedian Eugene Levy, from whom he inherited his eyebrows. He began his career as a host on MTV Canada. After minor roles in Canadian independent films, he formed a production company with his father. He is best known as the writer, producer and co-star of TV comedy Schitt’s Creek, chronicling a self-involved family of millionaires who lose their fortune and are forced to move to a small town. Levy played the neurotic pansexual trust fund baby David, alongside his father and sister Sara, with Catherine O’Hara as deranged former TV actress Moira Rose. After respectful reviews and a modest cult following, Schitt’s Creek became a global success after being broadcast on Netflix in 2017, during its third season. Three further successful seasons followed, becoming one of television’s most beloved comedies. Levy and his writing team drew praise for three inclusive and celebratory approach to sexuality, presenting a homophobia-free utopia in which David finds happiness with his sweet white-bread husband Patrick. David’s explanation of his bisexuality “I like the wine and not the label” became a much-quoted internet meme, while Moira was dubbed a gay icon, inspiring the Night of 1,000 Moiras tribute at Washington D.C. gay bar Trade. Schitt’s Creek‘s sixth and final season, broadcast in 2020 during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, became the No 1 watched show on Netflix, and dominated that year’s Emmy Awards. To date, Levy is the first person to Emmys for acting, writing, directing and producing in the same year. Levy’s post-Schitt’s Creek projects include hosting The Great Canadian Baking Show, a supporting role in Clea DuVall‘s queer-themed Christmas film Happiest Season, and wrote and directed the 2023 dramedy Good Grief, in which he starred as a gay widower grieving his husband. In 2017, Levy publicly criticised Globe and Mail TV critic John Doyle for describing his “feyness” as GCBS host, which he claimed was a homophobic slur. Openly gay since forever, his current relationship status is unknown.