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Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor.
Biography
Personal life
Gordon-Levitt was born in Los Angeles, California to Jewish American parents Dennis Levitt and Jane Gordon. For two years, he attended Columbia University, later dropping out to concentrate on acting. He dated actress Julia Stiles, his costar in 10 Things I Hate about YouCareer
Gordon-Levitt began acting at the age of six, appearing in several late 1980s made-for-television films and two episodes of the series Family Ties. After having a lead role on a prime time soap opera, the short-lived 1991 remake of Dark Shadows, he made his feature-film debut as a young version of Craig Sheffer's character in 1992's A River Runs Through It. In 1994, he played a Hutterite boy in the comedy, Holy Matrimony, and appeared in the lead role of the successful Disney film, Angels in the Outfield. In 1996, he began playing Tommy Solomon on the sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun, a role for which he may still be best known. During the late 1990s, he also appeared in several films, including The Juror (1996), as Demi Moore's character's son, the horror film 20 Years Later, as a pre-credit victim, and the Shakespeare-based teen comedy 10 Things I Hate about You, in which he played a leading role.
After 3rd Rock from the Sun ended its run in 2001, Gordon-Levitt appeared in what has been described by critics as a series "of acclaimed and underseen indies", including 2003's drama Manic, which was set in a mental institution, 2005's Mysterious Skin, in which he played a street hustler, and 2005's Brick, a modern-day film noir set at a high school, in which he plays the lead role of Brendan Frye, a teen who becomes involved in an underground drug ring while investigating a murder. Brick received generally positive reviews, with one critic commenting that Gordon-Levitt plays the character "beautifully", "true to film’s style", "unfeeling but not disenchanted" and "sexy in the most ambiguous way", and another describing the performance as "astounding". He has also done the voice of the main character Jim Hawkins in the Disney animated feature, Treasure Planet.
Gordon-Levitt's upcoming roles include Killshot, playing an assassin opposite Diane Lane and Mickey Rourke, and The Lookout, a bank heist thriller.
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Selected filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Other notes |
| 2006 | Killshot | Richie Nix | |
| 2005 | Brick | Brendan Frye | released in theaters in 2006 |
| 2004 | Mysterious Skin | Neil McCormick | |
| 2003 | Havoc | Sam | straight to video release in 2005 |
| Latter Days | Elder Paul Ryder | ||
| 2002 | Treasure Planet | Jim Hawkins | voice only |
| 2001 | Manic | Lyle | |
| 1999 | 10 Things I Hate about You | Cameron James | |
| 1998 | 20 Years Later | Jimmy Howell | |
| 1996 | The Juror | Oliver Laird | |
| 1994 | Angels in the Outfield | Roger Bomman | |
| Holy Matrimony | Ezekiel | ||
| 1992 | A River Runs Through It | Young Norman |
References
Footnotes
Web sites
- Hitrecord.org Josephs Gordon-Levitt's Official Website
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt at TV.com
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