Her parents were Jewish communists from whom she inherited a love of the arts and a capacity for intellectual jousting.
During her stewardship, the audience increased 24 per cent, due to the production of programs including Kath and Kim, Spicks and Specks, Enough Rope and The Chaser.
In 2006 she joined Channel 9 as head of drama and a year later took over from Malcolm Long[4] as CEO of the Australian Film, Television and Radio School[3] for two four-year terms, stepping down on 24 June 2015.
[5] In 2010 Levy was awarded a Doctor of Letters honoris causa by Macquarie University in recognition of her thirty years' work in film and television.
[7] Levy was made an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to the arts as a film and television director and producer, and through strategic leadership and educational roles".