Acting
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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+.
Movies with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Inception
2010
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
10 Things I Hate About You
1999
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2009
Knives Out
2019
Looper
2012
(500) Days of Summer
2009
Treasure Planet
2002
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
The Interview
2014
The Juror
1996
Once Upon a Studio
2023
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
Lincoln
2012
Pinocchio
2022
Don Jon
2013
A River Runs Through It
1992
Mysterious Skin
2005
Beethoven
1992
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
2024
Greedy People
2024
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020
Snowden
2016
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
Havoc
2005
Project Power
2020
Paradise Records
2025
Hesher
2010
The Night Before
2015
The Walk
2015
Angels in the Outfield
1994
50/50
2011
Killshot
2008
Premium Rush
2012
Forever Lulu
2000
Holy Matrimony
1994
Killer Heat
2024
Brick
2006
Stop-Loss
2008
Ending the Knight
2012
Manic
2002
The Lookout
2007
The Brothers Bloom
2008
Flora and Son
2023
Plymouth
1991
Sweet Jane
1998
7500
2019
Women in Trouble
2009
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
Straight Outta OZ
2016
Latter Days
2004
Elektra Luxx
2011
Weezer: Security Threat
Big Breaks
2008
Endgame
2018
The Road Killers
1994
Shadowboxer
2005
Dear Class of 2020
2020
Uncertainty
2009
Picking Up the Pieces
2000
Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis
2018
Pendulum
2027
Escargots
2006
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
2022
Building Brick
2006
White Night
Gregory K
1993
A Forest Haunt
2022
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
Changes
1991
Stranger on My Land
1988
Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday Spectacular
2013
Wingmen
Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious
2010
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019
Hi Honey - I'm Dead
1991
Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity
2014
Vinegar
2013
Band Together with Logic
2019
Lincoln: An American Journey
2013
Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny
2010
Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo
2010
The Great Elephant Escape
1995
Paradise Records Behind the Scenes
2026
TV Shows with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Last Meals
2021
Conan
2010
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Numb3rs
2005
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The View
1997
Quantum Leap
1989
That '70s Show
1998
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993
Hot Ones
2015
Family Ties
1982
The Mindy Project
2012
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
L.A. Law
1986
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Poker Face
2023
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Outer Limits
1995
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Click
2000
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Made in Hollywood
2005
Explained
2018
China Beach
1988
Drop the Mic
2017
The Muppets
2015
Mr. Corman
2021
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
2022
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
2014
Nudes in the News
2002
Dark Shadows
1991
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018
Roseanne
1988
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2014
That's My Jam
2021
Comrade Detective
2017
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory
2021
The Powers That Be
1992
Seductive Poison
Create Together
2020
Teen Choice Awards
1999