Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt is an American actor, writer, and director.
40 Facts About Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the founder of the online media platform HitRecord whose projects such as HitRecord on TV and Create Together won him two Primetime Emmy Awards in the category of Outstanding Interactive Program.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt played the role of Tommy Solomon in the TV series 3rd Rock from the Sun.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt had a supporting role in 10 Things I Hate About You and voiced Jim Hawkins in the Disney animated Treasure Planet before taking a break from acting to study at Columbia University, but dropped out in 2004 to resume his acting career.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt portrayed Philippe Petit in the Robert Zemeckis-directed film The Walk and whistleblower Edward Snowden in the Oliver Stone film Snowden.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt 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.
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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt was born on February 17,1981, in Los Angeles, California, and was raised in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Ashkenazi Jewish, from a family that is "not strictly religious" and his parents were among the founders of the Progressive Jewish Alliance.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's maternal grandfather, Michael Gordon, was a Hollywood film director.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt had an older brother, Dan, a photographer and fire spinner who died in 2010 at the age of 36.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt attended Van Nuys High School and graduated in 1999.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt joined a musical theater group at the age of four and played the Scarecrow in a production of The Wizard of Oz.
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The San Francisco Chronicle noted that Joseph Gordon-Levitt was a "Jewish kid playing an extraterrestrial pretending to be a Jewish kid".
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt made an appearance on That '70s Show in 1998 as Buddy, a gay teenager who assumes his friend is gay as well, in the episode "Eric's Buddy".
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt had a supporting role in 1998's Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, the 1999 film 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and voiced Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet, a Disney adaptation of the novel Treasure Island.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt became an avid Francophile and a French speaker.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt dated actress Julia Stiles and the two lived in John Jay Hall.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt said that moving to New York City from his hometown forced him to grow as a person.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt dropped out in 2004 to concentrate on acting again.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt has said that he made a conscious decision to "be in good movies" after returning to acting.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt played a lead role opposite to friend Zooey Deschanel in 500 Days of Summer, a well-received 2009 release about the deconstruction of a relationship.
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In 2011, Joseph Gordon-Levitt began filming Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises in which he played John Blake, a police officer who emerges as a key ally of Batman.
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In 2015, Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred as Philippe Petit in the biographical drama The Walk, directed by Academy Award-winning director Robert Zemeckis.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt then played National Security Agency surveillance leaker Edward Snowden in Snowden, directed by Oliver Stone.
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In 2017, Joseph Gordon-Levitt had a voice cameo in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
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In 2019, Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred in 7500 directed by Patrick Vollrath, which had its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival on August 9,2019.
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That same year, Joseph Gordon-Levitt had a voice cameo in Knives Out.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred in Project Power, directed by Ariel Schulman and Henry Joost, opposite Jamie Foxx and Dominique Fishback; it was released on August 14,2020, by Netflix.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt next played lawyer Richard Schultz in the drama film The Trial of the Chicago 7.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt's first film as director, the 24-minute-long Sparks was an adaptation of a short story by Elmore Leonard starring Carla Gugino and Eric Stoltz.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt was one of the many producers of the Broadway show Slava's Snowshow.
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In 2013, Joseph Gordon-Levitt wrote, directed, and starred in his screenwriting and directorial debut, Don Jon.
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In September 2019, it was announced Joseph Gordon-Levitt would write, direct, star, and executive produce Mr Corman, a comedy-drama series produced by A24 for Apple TV+.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt uses a variety of media to produce such projects as short films, books, and DVDs.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt created the platform in 2010 after a period of stagnation in his acting career.
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On 6 November 2020, Joseph Gordon-Levitt released Hong Kong Never Sleeps, a collaborative short film paying homage to Hong Kong created on hitRECord, on his Facebook page.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt has publicly disputed the claim that his brother's death was caused by a drug overdose.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt was active in the movement in the 1960s and 1970s.
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In December 2014, Joseph Gordon-Levitt married Tasha McCauley, the founder and CEO of technology company Fellow Robots.
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been living with his family in Wellington since October 2020, after moving his new TV production to New Zealand in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.