
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Born February 17, 1981 · 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, 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+.
Movies

Inception

The Dark Knight Rises

Knives Out

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Treasure Planet

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

10 Things I Hate About You

(500) Days of Summer

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Looper

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

The Interview

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

The Walk

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

Don Jon

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

Killer Heat

Pinocchio

Lincoln

Flora and Son

A River Runs Through It

Greedy People

The Trial of the Chicago 7

Premium Rush

Project Power

50/50

Snowden

Once Upon a Studio

Beethoven

The Juror

Mysterious Skin

The Night Before

Havoc

Brick

Hesher

The Brothers Bloom

Angels in the Outfield

Stop-Loss

The Lookout

Killshot

Miracle at St. Anna

7500

Forever Lulu

Picking Up the Pieces

Latter Days

Holy Matrimony
TV Shows

The Kelly Clarkson Show

The View

Saturday Night Live

Conan

The Graham Norton Show

LIVE with Kelly and Mark

Murder, She Wrote

Golden Globe Awards

Quantum Leap

That '70s Show

Numb3rs

L.A. Law

3rd Rock from the Sun

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Hot Ones

A Little Late with Lilly Singh

The Mindy Project

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Family Ties

MTV Movie & TV Awards

Last Meals

The Outer Limits

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Comedy Bang! Bang!

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Poker Face

Click

China Beach

Made in Hollywood

Running Wild with Bear Grylls

The Muppets

Explained

Amend: The Fight for America

Drop the Mic

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Mr. Corman

James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction

That's My Jam

Dark Shadows

Roseanne

Wolfboy and the Everything Factory

The Powers That Be

Comrade Detective

Create Together

Teen Choice Awards
More Movies

Elektra Luxx

Ending the Knight

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration

Women in Trouble

Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis

Manic

Paradise Records

Shadowboxer

Dear Class of 2020

The Road Killers

Uncertainty

An SNL Thanksgiving

Sweet Jane

Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday Spectacular

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

Plymouth

Stranger on My Land

Hi Honey - I'm Dead

The Great Elephant Escape

Changes

Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity

Straight Outta OZ

Pendulum

Lincoln: An American Journey

Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious

A Forest Haunt

Escargots

Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo

Band Together with Logic

Vinegar

White Night

Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny




