Joseph Gordon-levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt became a movie star as a child. As a child, his peers considered him an upstart, although the guy worked hard and saw with his own eyes that working in Hollywood was far from the generally accepted, envious notions of glamor. Since then, the actor has earned Primetime Emmy Awards and Young Artist Awards, has been nominated for a Golden Globe, has a habit of avoiding the press and dislikes laudatory articles. According to Joseph, it would be more correct to accept a person as he is, and not to “drive him out” according to a list of certain requirements and standards.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt was born on February 17, 1981. Joseph's hometown was Los Angeles. The boy grew up in a Jewish family that has never been strictly religious. The father of the future actor Denis Levitt and mother Jane Gordon worked together at one of the radio stations. In his youth, Joseph's parents were hippies and were of the opinion that a wife should not part with her last name by getting married, which is why their son received a double surname.

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Maternal grandfather Michael Gordon was a fairly well-known filmmaker. It is not surprising that from an early age, Joseph Gordon-Levitt also began to join the world of film and television. At the age of 4, the boy began attending a musical theater group, where for the first time he took part in the theatrical performance "The Wizard of Oz" as the Scarecrow.

During the performance, the talent of the little artist was noted by the casting agent, thanks to which Joseph soon starred in a peanut butter advertisement and several other commercials. At the same time, he continued to participate in amateur musicals.

In the early 2000s, Joseph studied at Columbia University, by that time the young man was already a fairly well-known actor.

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The Hollywood star was very friendly with his brother Daniel, who is 7 years older than him. The young man was professionally engaged in photography and dancing, opened his own studio, and even received the nickname Burning Dan for the unusual fiery artistic accompaniment of the numbers. Relatives founded HitRECord, a company that helped young filmmakers to realize their ideas.

In 2010, Dan died, no cause of death was reported, but the tabloids rushed to voice their own version - drug addiction. Offended by such conclusions, Joseph called the journalists fools and refused to discuss the topic.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt began his film career early enough. At the age of 7, the boy made his debut in the film "Not a Step Back". He first appeared in feature films in 1992 - it was the film Beethoven: the role of the young actor lasted only a few seconds. Then there was work in the film by Robert Redfort "Where the River Flows", and since 1996 Joseph began to appear in the serial comedy "The Third Planet from the Sun", this project brought the actor popularity and several awards.

After the termination of the broadcast of "The Third Planet from the Sun" Joseph Gordon-Levitt stopped acting for a short time, but after graduating from university, he returned to big cinema. From that point on, he worked mainly with independent filmmakers.

In 1999, the actor starred in the comedy melodrama "10 Reasons to Hate", which the creators positioned as a modern adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare "The Taming of the Shrew." Heath Ledger and Julia Styles starred in the film.

In 2001, the guy actor got the lead role in the psychological drama "Manic". The film shows the problems of society through the prism of a mental hospital.

In 2005, the film Mysterious Skin was released, in which Joseph played a homosexual street hustler. In the same year he appeared in the film "Brick". In 2006, he was engaged in the filming of the films "Duress War" and "Killer". The next couple of years brought Gordon-Levitt only minor roles in not particularly popular films.

Released in 2009, the indie comedy drama 500 Days of Summer earned Gordon-Levitt a Golden Globe nomination. Joseph and his co-star in the film, Zooey Deschanel, convincingly played a romantic relationship; after the film, fans began to spread rumors about a real romance of the stars, which colleagues did not confirm.

The following year, the actor appeared in the arthouse drama Hesher, where he played a misanthrope who suddenly starts caring for an orphan TJ.

2010 brought Gordon-Levitt a successful role in the sci-fi thriller Inception by Christopher Nolan. The painting is based on the original idea of ​​immersion in other people's dreams. The team of protagonists makes a living by stealing corporate secrets from the subconscious of other people. They are faced with a non-trivial task: not to steal information, but to implement it.

The film ends with an ambiguous open ending. The main roles in the blockbuster were played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy and Marion Cotillard. The project won 4 "technical" "Oscars": for camera work, sound, scene editing and special effects.

In 2011, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen starred in the tragicomedy 50/50 (Life is Beautiful). The film tells about a young man who goes in for sports and avoids bad habits, but on examination by a doctor finds out that he is terminally ill.

In 2012, the viewer could see his favorite in 4 pictures at once. Gordon-Levitt played detective John Blake in the blockbuster comic strip The Dark Knight Rises. When Joseph's name was announced in the cast of the upcoming film, fans were sure that the actor would reincarnate as the Joker, played by the deceased Heath Ledger. The main evidence of this rumor was the visual similarity of the performers. But the filmmakers did not replace one actor with another, showing respect for Ledger and moving the plot of the trilogy.

In the ending of The Dark Knight, there is a hint that the character of Joseph is becoming a kind of successor to Batman. There were suggestions that the performer of the role of the defender of the weak in the following projects was found. But Gordon-Levitt himself explained that the creator of the trilogy, Christian Bale, has already decided to complete the story. Fans of the actor hoped that he would play Batman for Zach Snyder in Justice League, but the director preferred Ben Affleck.

This was followed by the role of Robert Lincoln in the biography "Lincoln". Two other films this year brought Gordon-Levitt into the lead roles. The actor played the cyclist Wylie in the film Express Delivery. But the audience especially remembered another film with Joseph's participation - the fantastic action movie "The Loop of Time".

In the blockbuster about time travel, Gordon-Levitt played the killer Joe, who kills people sent from the future, sentenced to execution by those who in the future will act as judges. Joseph convincingly reincarnated as a brutal character, despite his not very tall height (176 cm) and an appearance that is not very suitable for a professional killer. The plot of the film begins with the fact that one day Joe becomes the target himself, but is 30 years older. Bruce Willis played the role of the killer from the future.

In 2013, the film The Passion of Don Juan was released, which became the director's debut of the actor. Also, Gordon-Levitt wrote the script for the comedy tape and played the main role. The plot of the film tells about a modern womanizer who constantly gets into trouble. The project with a modest budget for Hollywood of $ 3 million grossed 10 times more at the box office.

In 2014, Joseph landed the lead role in the sequel to the noir detective thriller Sin City 2: A Dame to Kill For. The film is based on Frank Miller's graphic novel Sin City. The painting is distinguished by its original color scheme and star composition: Mickey Rourke, Jessica Alba, Bruce Willis, Eva Green, Lady Gaga and others.

In 2015, the actor appeared in the biopic "The Walk" by Robert Zemeckis. He played the role of the French street tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who in 1974 walked without belay on a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. The film is based on Petit's autobiography Reach the Clouds.

In 2016, Gordon-Levitt starred in the political thriller Snowden. The film is based on the biography of a former CIA and NSA officer Edward Snowden, who reported to the press about the surveillance of citizens by intelligence services. The film is based on the books "The Snowden Files: The Story of the Most Wanted Man in the World" by Luke Harding and "The Time of the Octopus" by Anatoly Kucherena. Joseph himself was sympathetic to the act of his hero:

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Gordon-Levitt is confident that the state monitors citizens using gadgets, so he installed several programs in his smartphone that, he hopes, encrypt data transmission. It's one thing when a person talks about himself, and quite another - when information is collected without his knowledge.

In the winter of 2017, Joseph Gordon-Levitt was nominated for the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, one of the oldest in the United States in the field of culture, as, according to the Commission, "a figure who knows how to look into the future and is able to create inherently revolutionary conditions for the development of an artist's creativity."

Joseph Gordon-Levitt never shared much information about his personal life, despite this, some facts still became known. In 1999, while filming, he struck up a relationship with colleague Julia Styles. The romance lasted 7 months, after which the guy began to meet with Larisa Oleinik - an actress whom he had known since filming "The Third Planet". This relationship lasted 3 years.

Over the years, interest in the person of Joseph grew, which caused a lot of rumors about his connections. Gordon-Levitt's relationship with actresses Evan Rachel Wood and Lucy Liu, model Devon Aoki, and dancer Lexi Hulme were actively discussed. After filming together, Gordon-Levitt was credited with an affair with Scarlett Johansson.

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At the Oscar 2014 ceremony, the actor presented the Visual Effects nomination with Emma Watson, and then took a joint selfie. The heroine of the Potterians was immediately recorded as a potential girlfriend of Joseph. A similar situation developed after the movie star's photo shoot with top model Claudia Schiffer. The pictures of the couple, some of them very frivolous, were published in the American edition of GQ.

At one time, rumors about the actor's unconventional orientation spread in the yellow press. This information, like the rumors about the listed novels, was not confirmed.

In December 2014, Tasha McCauley became Joseph's wife. The wedding was not magnificent - the lovers celebrated with close relatives and friends. The actor's wife is the CEO and co-owner of Fellow Robots, located in NASA Research Park, which manufactures robotics in Silicon Valley. Speaks 3 languages. Two children are growing up in the family, the names of the sons are kept secret.

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The actor jealously guards privacy from journalists, but on the Instagram platform there is an account of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, which the service confirms as official. On this page, the celebrity regularly posts photos and short videos from filming and from everyday life - from meetings with friends, from family evenings and shares materials that interest him.

As a director, Joseph is now passionate about implementing a project with a friend of Channing Tatum, with whom he worked in the films "Duress War" and "Crazy". In the new film, both will show musical talent, because, according to insiders, it will be a comedy musical, an adaptation of the 50s film "Guys and Dolls" with Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. It is not known when the tape will appear in the filmography of the actors, because only in the middle of 2018, Tatum completed shooting in the action movie "Triple Border".

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For the summer of 2019, the premiere of the drama "7500" about the hijacking of the plane by terrorists is announced. Gordon-Levitt replaced the lead actor Paul Dano in the frame. The film crew is headed by German director Patrick Wohlrath, who was nominated for an Oscar in the short films section.

Together with another titled colleague, Jamie Foxx, the actor starred in a sci-fi movie from Netflix, which has not yet been named. Joseph plays an employee of a unit fighting the spread of a substance that gives people superpowers.

The dramatic film "The Case of the Chicago Seven" has a difficult fate. First, Steven Spielberg, who saw Heath Ledger in the title role, agreed to take the director's chair. After the refusal of the first and the death of the second, the owner of all kinds of film awards Aaron Sorkin took on the film. But at the end of 2018, the production company Amblin Entertainment announced the suspension of filming indefinitely.

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The plot of the film focuses on a trial against US citizens who opposed the Vietnam War and were accused of an anti-government conspiracy. In addition to Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the cast includes Sasha Baron-Cohen and Seth Rogen.

According to rumors, the man will play the main role and will be the producer of the "K Detachment" tape, dedicated to the far-right Ku Klux Klan organization. The script of the film will be written by the playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Shenkkan.

1992 - Beethoven 1993 - Doctor Quinn, Doctor Woman 1996 - Juror 1996-2001 - The Third Planet from the Sun 2005 - Brick 2008 - War of Duress 2009 - 500 Days of Summer 2010 - Hesher 2011 - 50/50 2012 - The Dark Knight Rises 2013 - The Passion of Don Juan 2015 - The Walk 2016 - Snowden 2019 - 7500

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Joseph Gordon-levitt Net Worth 2021

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