Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Acting
- Born:
- 1981-02-17
- Place of birth:
- Los Angeles, California, USA
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, he 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, he 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 the comedy drama series Mr. Corman on Apple TV+.
Known For
Filmography
Pendulum
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Paradise Records
An SNL Thanksgiving
Killer Heat
Greedy People
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
Once Upon a Studio
Flora and Son
Poker Face
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Pinocchio
A Forest Haunt
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
That's My Jam
Last Meals
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory
Mr. Corman
Amend: The Fight for America
The Trial of the Chicago 7
Project Power
Dear Class of 2020
Create Together
7500
Knives Out
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Band Together with Logic
Endgame
Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis
Explained
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Drop the Mic
Comrade Detective
Snowden
Straight Outta OZ
The Night Before
The Walk
The Muppets
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Hot Ones
The Interview
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Off Camera with Sam Jones
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Vinegar
Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday Spectacular
Don Jon
Lincoln: An American Journey
Ending the Knight
Lincoln
Looper
The Mindy Project
Premium Rush
The Dark Knight Rises
Comedy Bang! Bang!
50/50
Elektra Luxx
Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious
Conan
Inception
Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo
Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny
Hesher
Uncertainty
Women in Trouble
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
(500) Days of Summer
The Brothers Bloom
Big Breaks
Killshot
Miracle at St. Anna
Stop-Loss
The Lookout
The Graham Norton Show
Building Brick
Brick
Escargots
Havoc
Made in Hollywood
Shadowboxer
Mysterious Skin
Numb3rs
Latter Days
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Treasure Planet
Manic
Nudes in the News
Forever Lulu
Picking Up the Pieces
Click
Teen Choice Awards
10 Things I Hate About You
That '70s Show
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Unmasking the Horror
Sweet Jane
The View
The Juror
3rd Rock from the Sun
The Outer Limits
The Great Elephant Escape
Angels in the Outfield
The Road Killers
Holy Matrimony
Gregory K
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
A River Runs Through It
MTV Movie & TV Awards
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Beethoven
The Powers That Be
Plymouth
Hi Honey - I'm Dead
Changes
Dark Shadows
Quantum Leap
Roseanne
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
China Beach
Stranger on My Land
L.A. Law
Murder, She Wrote
Family Ties
Saturday Night Live
Sesame Street
Golden Globe Awards
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
White Night
Seductive Poison