Joseph  Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American amateur whose career as both a adolescent and developed has included television alternation and affected films. He is accepted for his roles in the 2009 indie (500) Days of Summer and Christopher Nolan's 2010 sci-fi blur Inception. The above becoming him a Golden Globe nomination. Alpha in commercials as a adolescent child, he fabricated his blur admission in 1992's Beethoven. Gordon-Levitt after co-starred in the television ball 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) as the adolescent Tommy Solomon. After a aperture during which he abounding Columbia University, Gordon-Levitt larboard television for blur acting, actualization in assorted absolute films, alpha with the 2001 blur Manic, followed by alarmingly acclaimed performances in 2004's Mysterious Skin, 2005's Brick, and 2007's The Lookout. He runs an online collaborative assembly aggregation blue-blooded HitRECord.

Early life

Gordon-Levitt was built-in in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Sherman Oaks. His ancestors is Jewish. His father, Dennis Levitt, was already the account administrator for the Pacifica Radio station, KPFK-FM.[5] His mother, Jane Gordon, ran for the United States Congress in California during the 1970s for the Peace and Freedom Party; she met Dennis Levitt while she was alive as the affairs adviser editor for KPFK-FM. Gordon-Levitt's affectionate grandfather, Michael Gordon, was a Hollywood blur administrator amid the 1940s and 1970s, accepted for helming the 1959 Doris Day/Rock Hudson blur Pillow Talk. Gordon-Levitt had an earlier brother, Dan, who was a columnist and blaze spinner; he was built-in in 1974 and died in October 2010.

Gordon-Levitt abutting a agreeable amphitheater accumulation at the age of four and played the Scarecrow in a assembly of The Wizard of Oz.[5] Subsequently, he was approached by an abettor and began actualization on television and in commercials for Sunny Jim peanut butter, Cocoa Puffs, Pop-Tarts, and Kinney Shoes.

Acting career

Early work

Gordon-Levitt began his acting career at the age of six, actualization in several backward 1980s made-for-television films. In 1996, Gordon-Levitt began arena Tommy Solomon on the ball 3rd Rock from the Sun, a role that put him on the map and for which he is a lot of well-known. The San Francisco Chronicle acclaimed the accompaniment that Gordon-Levitt was a "Jewish kid arena an exoteric assuming to be a Jewish kid". Gordon-Levitt was accessory Van Nuys Top Academy while acting on the show. During the 1990s, he was frequently featured in boyish magazines, something he resented. He has aswell said that during this time period, he did not adore getting accustomed in public, allegorical that he "hates celebrity". He larboard the appearance during its final season, acceptable a alternating character.

Gordon-Levitt starred in the 1999 blur 10 Things I Hate About You, a modern-day adjustment of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, and accurate Jim Hawkins in Treasure Planet (2002), a Disney adaption of the atypical Treasure Island.

In 2000, he began accessory Columbia University. He advised history, literature, and French balladry in General Studies. He became an ardent and self-confirmed Francophile and a French speaker. He said that affective to New York City from his hometown "forced" him to abound as a person.[9] He alone out in 2004 to apply on acting again.

Later work

Gordon-Levitt has said that he fabricated a acquainted accommodation to "be in acceptable movies" afterwards abiding to acting. His films cover 2001's ball Manic, which was set in a brainy institution, Mysterious Skin (2004), in which he played a gay prostitute and adolescent animal corruption victim, and Brick (2005), a modern-day blur noir set at a top school, in which he had the advance role of Brendan Frye, a boyhood who becomes complex in an underground biologic ring while investigating a murder. Brick accustomed absolute reviews, with The Minnesota Daily's analyzer commenting that Gordon-Levitt played the appearance "beautifully", "true to film's style", "unfeeling but not disenchanted", and "sexy in the a lot of cryptic way. Another analyst declared the achievement as "astounding".He aswell starred adverse Steve Sandvoss as a adolescent judgmental missionary in Latter Days (2003), a blur that centers on a sexually abashed Mormon missionary (Sandvoss) who avalanche for his gay neighbor. He had roles in Havoc and Shadowboxer.

His next role was in The Lookout, area he played Chris Pratt, a attendant complex in a coffer heist, which was appear on March 30, 2007. In reviewing the film, The Philadelphia Inquirer declared Gordon-Levitt as a "surprisingly formidable, and formidably surprising, arch man", while New York annual declared that he is a "major tabula rasa amateur ... a minimalist", and that his appearance formed because he "doesn't appropriate the amplitude ... by what he takes abroad from the character." The San Francisco Chronicle defined that he "embodies, added than performs, a character's close life."His 2008 films cover Killshot, in which he played a blackmailer partnered with a assassin analgesic played by Mickey Rourke, and Stop-Loss, directed by Kimberly Peirce and revolving about American soldiers abiding from the Iraq War.

Gordon-Levitt played a advance role adverse Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer, a 2009 absolution about the deconstruction of a relationship, which accustomed absolute reviews. His performance, declared as "the absolute key" to what makes the blur work, credits him with application "his accepted spell in attenuate gradations.Variety's Todd McCarthy accepted his performance, adage he "expressively alternates amid activity and abandoned disappointment in the address Jack Lemmon could". Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said the cine "hits you like a bang of authentic adventurous oxygen" and accustomed both advance actors for arena "it for real, with a butt of subtlety and activity that goes above the alarm of airy duty. He was after nominated for a Golden Globe Award.

He after played villain Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. On November 21, he hosted Saturday Night Live. In 2010, replacing James Franco, he starred adverse Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan's science fiction abstruseness Inception, which accustomed favorable reviews. He played the role of the "Point Man" Arthur, Dom Cobb's (DiCaprio) accomplice and the being amenable for researching the team's targets.

He will play the adolescent adaptation of Bruce Willis's appearance in the time-traveling abstruseness Looper. In 2011, he began filming Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, in which he plays John Blake, "a Gotham City exhausted cop assigned to appropriate assignment beneath the command of Commissioner Gordon." Steven Spielberg has casting him to play Robert Todd