Zachary Levi is hosting the 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Monday, June 17.

The 38-year-old actor's breakthrough role was in NBC's cult favorite spy drama Chuck, and he's since appeared in , the movies, and .

This year, Levi played the title role in the DC Comics adaptation Shazam!

The 2019 MTV Movie & TV Awards will be hosted by actor Zachary Levi, and if his name isn't too familiar, you've almost definitely seen him on screen before. The 38-year-old actor has been working in TV, movies, and Broadway for years and is most recognized for his appearances in Marvel and DC Comics projects.

In 2018, he scored a buzzy role opposite Rachel Brosnahan in Amazon's Emmy-scooping series . Oh, and GQ once dubbed him "Most Interesting Christian in Hollywood."



Here are a few key facts to know about Levi.

Zachary Levi's breakout role was in Chuck.

Many TV viewers were first introduced to Levi when he played the title role in the NBC spy dramedy , which premiered in 2007. The show followed an unexceptional computer whiz (Levi) who's enlisted by a former college friend to work for the CIA. Though Chuck's ratings were never high, and its future was often in doubt, it amassed such a dedicated fanbase–who campaigned to save the show when it was in danger of cancellation–that it ultimately ran for five seasons.

Since Chuck ended in 2012, Levi has appeared in a handful of other notable TV projects. Most recently, he appeared in season two of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as Dr. Benjamin Ettenberg, a dry-witted new love interest for Rachel Brosnahan's Midge.

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Zachary Levi has a Tony award under his belt.

Levi played the lead role of Georg in 2016's Broadway revival of She Loves Me opposite Laura Benanti. The production was widely praised by critics, and earned Levi a Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for his performance.

"It's so exciting, it's very surreal, it's very heady," Levi told Entertainment Tonight at the time. In an interview with Theatermania he said that "as a kid who always wanted to do what I'm doing, it feels very good and validating to feel like people think you're doing it at that high of a level. So I think more than anything what I took away was, I finally felt like I was kind of accepted a little bit in this community, and that was cool."

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Zachary Levi has an ex-wife.

Levi married actress Missy Peregrym on June 16, 2014 and they reportedly shared the news on Twitter with matching hoodies that read "MR" and "MRS." The couple filed for divorce in April 2015, citing irreconcilable differences. Per the Los Angeles Times, their date of separation was listed as December 3, 2014, less than six months after their marriage.

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He's a Christian and is very spiritual.

Levi was raised Christian and has said that his faith remains central to his life. "People don’t talk about religion a lot in Hollywood because it’s not an incredibly safe place to do it," he told GQ. "There are a lot of people who want to go toe-to-toe with a Christian just for being a Christian. If I ever have to do that, I can hold my ground. I don’t approach religion with, like, putting the blinders on and, 'Blah blah blah I believe! I believe!'"

He has since described himself as more spiritual than strictly religious.

In a 2003 interview with Relevant magazine, Levi also discussed how his faith plays into his work as an actor. "My job on my set, I believe, is to first just love people and gain that trust with people where they know that I really do love them and care about their well-being," he said. "So that when they are running into problems, they will hopefully, at some point, come to me and ask me, 'What is your peace all about? What is your comfort all about? Where do you get your love? Where do you get your talents?' And I can turn to them and say without blinking, 'Jesus Christ.'"

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Marvel and DC Comics fans love him.

There's not a lot of actor-crossover between these two powerhouse movie makers since they're direct competitors, but Levi has scored roles in both universes. He played the role of Fandral in 2013's Thor: The Dark World and 2017's Thor: Ragnarok, but admitted to Screen Rant that he was disappointed by how minimal the role ended up being.

"I knew when I got cast as Fandral... I knew that the Warriors Three could be really fun characters if they ever developed them—they just didn't," he said. "That's not to say there weren't some moments that were shot that weren't used, ultimately, in the movie."

Levi went on to say that he was glad Fandral was killed in Ragnarok, because it freed him up to take the lead role in the DC Comics adaptation Shazam!

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Released in March of 2019, Shazam! drew overwhelmingly positive reviews and represented Levi's biggest movie role to date.

"I didn't want to feel like I wasn't being grateful [for the Thor role] but I wanted more, I always wanted more," he told Thrillist. "We all want to be the star. You want to be the title of the movie. And now I get to be the title of the movie and I get to have my bubblegum-chewing face all over Times Square. It's so heady. It's so not normal. It's not real life."

He added that he's learned not to take moments like this for granted. "I take very seriously, with all the people they could have chosen to bring this character to life for the first time in its first feature film, [that] they said, 'Hey, we're going to trust you with that.' And that to me is a very humbling thing."

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