Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt (2014)

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American actor and film director .

Private life

Gordon-Levitt was born to a Jewish family in Los Angeles and grew up there in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood . His parents, Dennis Levitt and Jane Gordon, are among the founders of the Progressive Jewish Alliance , an alliance that advocates social justice, better working conditions and the Jewish-Islamic dialogue, among other things. In 2000 he studied history, literature and French poetry at Columbia University in New York City . In 2004 he dropped out of college to focus on his acting career. His older brother Daniel Gordon-Levitt, known by the stage name "Burning Dan", died on October 4, 2010 at the age of 36. His maternal grandfather was the American theater and film actor and director Michael Gordon . Joseph Gordon-Levitt has been married to Tasha McCauley since 2014. Their son was born in 2015.

Career

Gordon-Levitt began his acting career at the age of six and first appeared in television feature films and two episodes in the series Familienbande in the late 1980s . After a leading role in the soap opera Dark Shadows , he made his feature film debut in 1992 as the actor of the young Norman in Robert Redford's literary film adaptation From the middle of a river . For this he was awarded a Young Artist Award . In 1994 he played a Hutterite boy in the comedy Holy Matrimony and a leading role in the Walt Disney film Angels. .

From 1996 to 2001 he played in 131 episodes of the television series Behind the Moon, just to the left, Tommy Solomon , an alien scientist who has to explore the earth in the form of a teenager and is confronted with typical teenage problems. The role earned him the Young Star Award of the Hollywood Reporter a. In 1996 he starred in Not Guilty of Demi Moore's Son , in 1998 with Jamie Lee Curtis and Josh Hartnett in the horror film Halloween H20 and in 1999 in the teen comedy 10 Things I Hate About You with Heath Ledger .

Joseph Gordon-Levitt at the Toronto International Film Festival (2012)

After the end of the series Behind the Moon Immediately Left , Gordon-Levitt concentrated on independent films. In 2000 he made Manic , who played in a mental hospital , and in 2003, Latter Days , in which he played a Mormon missionary. In 2004 he acted as a prostitute in Mysterious Skin . In Brick in 2005 he played Brendan Frye , a teenager involved in a drug ring. In 2006 he took on roles in the thrillers Killshot and The Rules of Violence (The Lookout) .

In 2009 he played the male lead Tom Hansen in the successful independent film (500) Days of Summer, alongside Zooey Deschanel as Summer Finn . For this role, Gordon-Levitt received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical . In 2010 he starred in Christopher Nolan's film Inception alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Michael Caine .

In 2012 he played in Christopher Nolan's third Batman film The Dark Knight Rises , the role of John Blake and Steven Spielberg's Lincoln alongside Sally Field and Daniel Day-Lewis .

In 2013, Gordon-Levitt made his feature film debut as a director and screenwriter with the comedy Don Jon . He also took on the male lead on the side of Scarlett Johansson and Julianne Moore . He has been directing short films since 2009.

For the shooting of the film The Walk , he learned how to dance tightrope from Philippe Petit , whom he played in this film .

In 2015, he worked with Oliver Stone on the film Snowden , which tells the story of the NSA disclosure scandal surrounding whistleblower Edward Snowden , played by Gordon-Levitt.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LA Observed (Kevin Roderick): "Joseph Gordon-Levitt gives shout out to KPFK" , September 29, 2011, accessed August 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ Frank Lidz: From Alien Boy to Growing Star in the Indie Universe . In: nytimes.com . The New York Times . 2007-25-03. Retrieved August 16, 2012.
  3. ↑ jgl: Dan Gordon-Levitt: The end of a dancing hippie. October 7, 2010, accessed January 31, 2017 .
  4. ^ Joseph Gordon-Levitt: Heimlich Papa | GALA.DE. Retrieved August 1, 2016 .
  5. ↑ https://www.vip.de/vips/joseph-gordon-levitt-t2666.html found at vip.de, accessed on October 22, 2019
  6. ↑ Joseph Gordon-Levitt becomes a tightrope walker . fan-lexikon.de. October 27, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
  7. ^ "The Walk": tightrope act between the "Twin Towers" . Westdeutsche Zeitung GmbH & Co. KG, wz-newsline.de. October 15, 2015. Retrieved October 28, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Gordon-Levitt, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gordon-Levitt, Joseph Leonard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH 17th February 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles