Joseph Gordon-Levitt

At 43 years old, Joseph Gordon-Levitt has this physical status:

Career

Gordon-Levitt performed in The Wizard of Oz's production at the age of four and appeared in a musical theater company at the age of four. He was contacted by an agent and began appearing on television and in commercials for Sunny Jim peanut butter, Cocoa Puffs, Pop-Tarts, and Kinney Shoes.

He appeared in several made-for-television films at age six. In 1991, he appeared in the film A River Runs Through It. He played both David Collins and Daniel Collins in the Dark Shadows television series and appeared in the film A River Runs Through It. He made an appearance as a boy witnessing a murder in a Quantum Leap episode last year. He appeared on The Powers That Be, a comedy starring John Forsythe as a savvy young boy named Pierce Van Horne, from 1992 to 1993. Gregory Kingsley appeared in the made-for-TV film Switching Parents, which was based on Kingsley's real life experience of "divorcing" his parents. He appeared in the Disney film Angels in the Outfield as an orphanage that sees angels in 1994. Tommy Solomon appeared on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun in 1996. The series ran for six seasons. Gordon-Levitt was a "Jewish kid pretending to be a Jewish kid," according to the San Francisco Chronicle. He was often featured in teen magazines during the 1990s. In the episode "Eric's Buddy," he appeared on That '70s Show in 1998 as Buddy, a gay teenager who assumes his acquaintance (main character Eric Forman) is gay as well.

Gordon-Levitt appeared in 1998's Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, a modern-day translation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew's The Taming of the Shrew, a contemporary-day adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and voiced Jim Hawkins in Treasure Island, a Disney adaptation of the novel Treasure Island, a supporting role. He began attending Columbia University in 2000. He wrote about history, literature, and French poetry. He became an ardent Francophile and a French speaker. Julia Stiles was also dated by him, and the two of them lived in John Jay Hall. He said that moving to New York City from his hometown made him grow as a person. He dropped out in 2004 to concentrate on acting again.

After returning to acting, Gordon-Levitt said he made a conscious decision to "be in good movies." His films include 2001's drama Manic, which was set in a mental facility, Mysterious Skin (2004), in which he played a gay prostitute and child sexual abuse perpetrator, and Brick (2005), a modern-day film noir set at a high school. When investigating a murder, he played Brendan Frye, a teen who becomes embroiled in an underground drug ring. Brick received favorable feedback, with The Minnesota Daily's reviewer stating that Gordon-Levitt "beautifully" performed the role "true to (the) film's style," "unfeeling but not disenchanted" and "sexy in the most ambiguous manner." According to another review, the results were described as "astounding." In Latter Days (2003), a film starring a sexually repressed Mormon missionary (Sandvoss) who falls for his gay neighbor, he starred opposite Steve Sandvoss as a young judic missionary (Sandvoss). He has appeared in Havoc and Shadowboxer as well.

Chris Pratt, a janitor involved in a bank robbery, appeared in 2007's The Lookout, where he appeared as Chris Pratt, a janitor implicated in a bank robbery. Gordon-Levitt is a "remarkably strong, formidably surprising leading man," according to The Philadelphia Inquirer, although New York magazine said he "doesn't capture the space by what he takes away from the story." "Heembodies, rather than performs, a character's inner life," the San Francisco Chronicle said. Stop-Loss, directed by Kimberly Peirce, and revolving around American soldiers returning from war in Iraq, as well as Killshot, in which he fought a hired killer played by Mickey Rourke, were among his 2008 and 2009 films.

Gordon-Levitt was a leading role opposite friend Zooey Deschanel in 500 Days of Summer, a well-received 2009 film about a relationship's deconstruction. His role, which has been dubbed "the true key" to the film's success, thanks to his ability to use "his usual spell in subtle gradations." Todd McCarthy of Variety praised his appearance, saying he "expressively switches between excitement and forlorn disappointment in the way Jack Lemmon did." Rolling Stone's Peter Travers said the film "hits you like a blast of pure romantic oxygen" and praised both lead actors for playing "it for real," with a sense of subtlety and a sense of empathy that goes beyond breezy duties. He was later nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

In G.I., he later played villain Cobra Commander. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. He hosted Saturday Night Live on November 21, 2009. In Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller Inception, he replaced James Franco and starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, which received rave reviews.

Gordon-Levitt began filming Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises in 2011, in which he played John Blake, a police officer who appears as a key ally of Batman. In Premium Rush, he played a fixie-riding, brash bicycle messenger; he portrayed the younger version of Bruce Willis' character in a joint role in the time-travel thriller Looper; and Robert Todd Lincoln in Steven Spielberg's biopic Lincoln. In 2012, all three movies were released.

In the sequel Sin City: A Dame to Kill (2004), Gordon-Levitt played Johnny, a new character portrayed by the filmmakers as "a cocky gambler disguised a deeper motive to murder his most ineffective enemy at his best game." He was one of the frontrunners of Marvel Studios' superhero film Ant-Man, which eventually went to Paul Rudd in October 2013.

Philippe Petit appeared in The Walk, directed by Academy Award-winning producer Robert Zemeckis, in 2015. In Snowden, directed by Oliver Stone, Gordon-Levitt played National Security Agency surveillance leaker Edward Snowden. Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, and Nicolas Cage appeared in North America on September 16, 2016.

Gordon Levitt appeared in Star Wars: The Last Jedi in 2017. Gordon-Levitt appeared in 7500 directed by Patrick Vollrath in 2019, which had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on August 9, 2019. Amazon Studios announced it on June 19, 2020, the first week in 2020. Gordon-Levitt's voice cameo in Knives Down that same year.

Gordon Levitt appeared in Project Power, directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, opposite Jamie Foxx and Dominique Fishback; Netflix announced it on August 14, 2020. Richard Schultz played lawyer Richard Schultz in the forensic film The Trial of the Chicago 7. Aaron Sorkin wrote and directed the film; its release date was September 25, 2020. It was announced in March 2021 that Levitt would appear in Robert Zemeckis' live-action film adaptation of Pinocchio. Travis Kalanick, the former CEO of Uber, will appear in Showtime's anthology series Super Pumped: The Struggle for Uber by Mike Isaac.

The 24-minute-long sparks was Gordon-Levitt's first film as director, starring Carla Gugino and Eric Stoltz. Sparks was selected for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival to be featured as part of a new program for short films. Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo, he directed another short film in 2010. During the South by Southwest festival in Austin, it premiered at two houses.

He was one of many creators of the Broadway show Slava's Snowshow, and he was one of many.

Gordon-Levitt wrote, directed, and starred in his first film, Don Jon, in 2013. Scarlett Johansson, Julianne Moore, and Tony Danza appear in the film, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013. "I always wanted this to be a movie for a large audience," Relativity Media and Gordon-Levitt said after the premiere. It was a long shot, everyone told me it was a long shot... "I could not possibly be more grateful."

Gordon-Levitt would write, direct, star, and executive produce Mr. Corman, a comedy-drama series produced by A24 for Apple TV+ in September 2019.

HitRecord (pronounced ; often stylized as hitRECrd) is a web collaborative media platform developed and operated by Gordon-Levitt. The company produces short films, books, and DVDs from a variety of media. Don Jon and the short films Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny and its sequel Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Birthday. The Zeppelin Zoo has been produced by HitRecord.

After a period of stagnation in his acting career, Gordon-Levitt founded the website in 2010. "I wanted to be creative, and no one was letting me [so I said] "I should figure out something on my own." The company has invested $6.4 million in venture capital.

Gordon-Levitt's Facebook page on Friday announced Hong Kong Never Sleeps, a collaborative short film devoted to Hong Kong that was released on hitRECord on November 6, 2020. It features photographs and videos he acquired from Hong Kongers since August 2020, some themed around the Hong Kong riots, which some were centered around the Hong Kong protests, as well as actor voice actors who were hired in October 2020.

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