
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Biography
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has received various accolades, including nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his leading performances in 500 Days of Summer (2009) and 50/50 (2011). He is the founder of the online media platform HitRecord whose projects such as HitRecord on TV (2014–15) and Create Together (2020) won him two Primetime Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Interactive Program.
Born in Los Angeles to a Jewish family, Gordon-Levitt began his acting career as a child, appearing in the films A River Runs Through It (1992), Holy Matrimony (1994), and Angels in the Outfield (1994), which earned him a Young Artist Award and a Saturn Award nomination. He played the role of Tommy Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) for which he received three nominations at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. He had a supporting role in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and voiced Jim Hawkins in the Disney animated Treasure Planet (2002) before taking a break from acting to study at Columbia University, but dropped out in 2004 to resume his acting career.
Since returning to acting, Gordon-Levitt has starred in Manic (2001), Mysterious Skin (2004), Brick (2005), The Lookout (2007), The Brothers Bloom (2008), Miracle at St. Anna (2008), G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009), Inception (2010), Hesher (2010), Premium Rush (2012), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Looper (2012), and Lincoln (2012). He portrayed Philippe Petit in the Robert Zemeckis-directed film The Walk (2015) and whistleblower Edward Snowden in the Oliver Stone film Snowden (2016). In 2020, he starred in the legal drama The Trial of the Chicago 7, for which he won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
In 2013, he wrote and directed Don Jon, a comedy-drama film that was released to critical acclaim, earning him an Independent Spirit Award nomination for Best First Screenplay. He previously directed and edited two short films, both of which were released in 2010: Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny and Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo. In 2021, he wrote, directed and starred in a comedy drama series Mr. Corman on Apple TV+.
Known For

Saturday Night Live

The Outer Limits

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The Graham Norton Show

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

The Mindy Project

Murder, She Wrote

Teen Choice Awards

Star Wars: Visions

A Little Late with Lilly Singh

Explained

Lip Sync Battle

MTV Movie & TV Awards

That '70s Show

Poker Face

Quantum Leap

Roseanne

L.A. Law

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

China Beach

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

Family Ties

That's My Jam

Amend: The Fight for America

Running Wild with Bear Grylls

Once Upon a Studio

The Interview

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Beethoven

Knives Out

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Dark Shadows

A River Runs Through It

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

The Powers That Be

Angels in the Outfield

Havoc

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Lincoln

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Wolfboy and The Everything Factory

3rd Rock from the Sun

The Dark Knight Rises

10 Things I Hate About You

Comrade Detective

Flora and Son

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Stop-Loss

Inception

Project Power

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis

Greedy People

The Night Before

Looper

Snowden

7500

The Walk

Don Jon

Treasure Planet

Brick

Pinocchio

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Mr. Corman

(500) Days of Summer

Killer Heat

50/50

Premium Rush

Mysterious Skin
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