Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Known for ActingBorn 1981-02-17 (age 45)Los Angeles, California, USA

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+.Read more

Movies & web series

Vinegar

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Teen Choice Awards

Wolfboy and the Everything Factory

Once Upon a Studio

Inception

Django Unchained

Create Together

Knives Out

MTV Movie & TV Awards

The Dark Knight Rises

That '70s Show

Quantum Leap

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Dear Class of 2020

Mysterious Skin

The Powers That Be

Dark Shadows

Poker Face

Explained

The Outer Limits

Treasure Planet

10 Things I Hate About You

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

3rd Rock from the Sun

Straight Outta OZ

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

(500) Days of Summer

China Beach

Murder, She Wrote

Amend: The Fight for America

50/50

Conan

Snowden

The Graham Norton Show

Ending the Knight

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Hot Ones

Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

The Muppets

The Walk

Flora and Son

Family Ties

Numb3rs

Running Wild with Bear Grylls

Looper

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction