Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Acting · 6.5 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: February 17, 1981
From: 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+.

Works

85 films

Inception

20108.4

The Dark Knight Rises

20127.8

Knives Out

20197.8

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

20176.7

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

20257.2

10 Things I Hate About You

19997.6

Treasure Planet

20027.6

Looper

20126.9

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

20227.0

(500) Days of Summer

20097.3

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

20146.4

Don Jon

20136.0

The Interview

20146.2

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

20095.8

The Walk

20157.0

Once Upon a Studio

20238.3

50/50

20117.2

Lincoln

20126.8

Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F

20246.6

Pinocchio

20226.3

Halloween H20: 20 Years Later

19986.0

Premium Rush

20126.4

Beethoven

19925.8

Snowden

20167.1

Killer Heat

20245.8

Mysterious Skin

20057.7

Project Power

20206.4

The Trial of the Chicago 7

20207.7

The Juror

19965.7

A River Runs Through It

19927.0

Greedy People

20246.3

Havoc

20055.3

The Lookout

20076.7

Flora and Son

20236.9

Hesher

20106.8

The Night Before

20156.1

Stop-Loss

20086.1

Angels in the Outfield

19946.0

Brick

20066.8

Latter Days

20046.9

Killshot

20085.8

The Brothers Bloom

20086.5

Ending the Knight

20127.1

Manic

20026.8

Holy Matrimony

19945.3

Elektra Luxx

20114.8

Sweet Jane

19985.5

7500

20196.2

Miracle at St. Anna

20086.1

Paradise Records

20254.7

Forever Lulu

20005.4

Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis

20186.6

Picking Up the Pieces

20004.3

Women in Trouble

20095.1

Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious

20107.1

Weezer: Security Threat

2026

Plymouth

19916.0

Big Breaks

20084.0

Dear Class of 2020

20207.7

Band Together with Logic

20194.7

Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber

2022

The Road Killers

19945.5

Shadowboxer

20055.2

Endgame

2018

Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration

20199.3

Nobody Nothing Nowhere

2026

Wingmen

2026

Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity

2014

Lincoln: An American Journey

20135.5

Straight Outta OZ

20167.4

Uncertainty

20095.4

Gregory K

19936.4

Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday Spectacular

20135.8

Changes

19916.2

Pendulum

2027

Escargots

2006

Hi Honey - I'm Dead

19914.6

Stranger on My Land

19885.2

Vinegar

201310.0

The Great Elephant Escape

19956.0

A Forest Haunt

20225.0

White Night

2026

Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny

20106.7

Building Brick

20063.0

Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo

20106.7