A Levi Who Is NOT Jewish

The star of a new TV series, Chuck, is called Zachary Levi but...

Mr. Levi says people often think that he is something that he is not. During an interview on the eve of Yom Kippur, as the sun began to dip over the Hollywood hills, a reporter asked Zachary Levi if he didn’t need to leave to prepare for the Jewish holiday. He explained with a laugh that people often mistakenly assume that he’s Jewish and that his real name is Zachary Levi Pugh, but that he dropped his Welsh surname years ago when his agent told him that a guy named Zach Pugh (pronounced Pew) would not be going far in Hollywood.