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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 Outfi…
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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+.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Filmography
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Pendulum
as Patrick
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
as Baseball Announcer (voice)
Paradise Records
as The Negotiator
An SNL Thanksgiving
as (archive footage)
Killer Heat
as Nick Bali
Greedy People
as Terry
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
as Detective Bobby Abbott
Once Upon a Studio
as Jim Hawkins (voice) (archive sound)
Flora and Son
as Jeff
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
as Hourly Dong (voice)
Pinocchio
as Jiminy Cricket (voice)
A Forest Haunt
as Narrator (voice)
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
as Travis 'Tk' Kalanick
The Trial of the Chicago 7
as Richard Schultz
Project Power
as Frank
Dear Class of 2020
as Self
7500
as Tobias Ellis
Knives Out
as Detective Hardrock (voice)
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
as Self - Host
Band Together with Logic
as Self
No Poster
Endgame
as Guard
Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis
as Self - Host
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
as Slowen Lo (voice)
Snowden
as Edward Snowden
Straight Outta OZ
The Night Before
as Ethan
The Walk
as Philippe Petit
The Interview
as Self (uncredited)
Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
as Johnny
Vinegar
as Vinny (voice)
Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday Spectacular
as Self
Don Jon
as Jon Martello, Jr.
Lincoln: An American Journey
as Self
Ending the Knight
as Self
Lincoln
as Robert Lincoln
Looper
as Joe
Premium Rush
as Wilee
The Dark Knight Rises
as Blake
50/50
as Adam Lerner
Elektra Luxx
as Bert Rodriguez
Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious
as Self
Inception
as Arthur
Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo
as Morgan M. Morgensen / Narrator
Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny
as Morgan M. Morgensen / Narrator
Hesher
as Hesher
Uncertainty
as Bobby
Women in Trouble
as Bert Rodriguez
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
as The Doctor / Rex
(500) Days of Summer
as Tom
The Brothers Bloom
as Bar Patron
No Poster
Big Breaks
as Todd Sterling
Killshot
as Richie Nix
Miracle at St. Anna
as Tim Boyle
Stop-Loss
as Tommy Burgess
The Lookout
as Chris Pratt
No Poster
Building Brick
as Self
Brick
as Brendan Frye
Escargots
Havoc
as Sam
Shadowboxer
as Dr. Don
Mysterious Skin
as Neil McCormick
Latter Days
as Elder Paul Ryder
Treasure Planet
as Jim Hawkins (voice)
Manic
as Lyle
Forever Lulu
as Martin Ellsworth
Picking Up the Pieces
as Flaco
10 Things I Hate About You
as Cameron James
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
as Jimmy
Unmasking the Horror
as Self
Sweet Jane
as Tony
The Juror
as Oliver
The Great Elephant Escape
as Matthew „Matt“ Cunningham
Angels in the Outfield
as Roger
The Road Killers
as Rich
Holy Matrimony
as Zeke
Gregory K
as Gregory Kingsley
A River Runs Through It
as Young Norman
Beethoven
as Student #1
Plymouth
as Simon
Hi Honey - I'm Dead
as Josh Stadler
Changes
as Matt Hallam
Stranger on My Land
as Rounder
No Poster
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
White Night
as James Jones