Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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, Gordon-Levitt 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, Gordon-Levitt 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 a comedy drama series Mr. Corman on Apple TV+.
136 acting credits · 12 directing credits
Acting · 136
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Saturday Night Live
1975
Conan
2010
Murder, She Wrote
1984
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
Numb3rs
2005
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Hot Ones
2015
Quantum Leap
1989
L.A. Law
1986
That '70s Show
1998
Inception
2010
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman
1993
3rd Rock from the Sun
1996
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Family Ties
1982
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
The Outer Limits
1995
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Mindy Project
2012
The Dark Knight Rises
2012
MTV Movie & TV Awards
1992
Poker Face
2023
Comedy Bang! Bang!
2012
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Click
2000
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
2017
A Little Late with Lilly Singh
2019
10 Things I Hate About You
1999
China Beach
1988
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
2025
Knives Out
2019
Explained
2018
Made in Hollywood
2005
(500) Days of Summer
2009
Running Wild with Bear Grylls
2014
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
2022
Drop the Mic
2017
Treasure Planet
2002
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
2014
Mr. Corman
2021
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
2009
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
2022
Don Jon
2013
The Interview
2014
James Cameron's Story of Science Fiction
2018
Looper
2012
The Muppets
2015
Once Upon a Studio
2023
Roseanne
1988
That's My Jam
2021
Dark Shadows
1991
Havoc
2005
Amend: The Fight for America
2021
A River Runs Through It
1992
Lincoln
2012
Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F
2024
Pinocchio
2022
The Trial of the Chicago 7
2020
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2014
Nudes in the News
2002
Premium Rush
2012
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
1998
Beethoven
1992
Mysterious Skin
2005
Project Power
2020
The Walk
2015
Snowden
2016
The Powers That Be
1992
Comrade Detective
2017
The Juror
1996
Killer Heat
2024
50/50
2011
Wolfboy and the Everything Factory
2021
Greedy People
2024
Killshot
2008
Angels in the Outfield
1994
Brick
2006
Hesher
2010
7500
2019
Flora and Son
2023
The Night Before
2015
The Lookout
2007
Ending the Knight
2012
Stop-Loss
2008
Latter Days
2004
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
The Brothers Bloom
2008
Manic
2001
Shadowboxer
2005
Dear Class of 2020
2020
Women in Trouble
2009
Sesame Street's 50th Anniversary Celebration
2019
Holy Matrimony
1994
Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis
2018
Teen Choice Awards
1999
Create Together
2020
Paradise Records
2025
Lady Gaga & the Muppets Holiday Spectacular
2013
Elektra Luxx
2011
Picking Up the Pieces
2000
Pendulum
2027
Stranger on My Land
1988
The Road Killers
1994
Forever Lulu
2000
Straight Outta OZ
2016
Plymouth
1991
Weezer: Security Threat
—
Dreams: Cinema of the Subconscious
2010
Changes
1991
Seductive Poison
—
The Great Elephant Escape
1995
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
—
Sweet Jane
1998
Wingmen
—
Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo
2010
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber
2022
Uncertainty
2009
White Night
—
Big Breaks
2008
Lincoln: An American Journey
2013
Gregory K
1993
Escargots
2006
Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny
2010
Hi Honey - I'm Dead
1991
Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity
2014
Building Brick
2006
Vinegar
2013
Endgame
2018
Band Together with Logic
2019
A Forest Haunt
2022
Directing · 12
Mr. Corman
2021
Don Jon
2013
HitRECord on TV with Joseph Gordon-Levitt
2014
2034
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The Blue Dildo
2012
Wingmen
—
Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeenth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo
2010
Sparks
2009
Escargots
2006
Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny
2010
Sleep Cycle
2014
Band Together with Logic
2019