Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt (born February 17, 1981) is an American actor whose career as both a child and adult has included television series and theatrical films. Levitt is set to play Villamax XXIII  in  Power Rangers LG: Galactic Underground ,  Anthony Marsh, Jr 's fan-film reboot of  Power Rangers: Lost Galaxy  and his fan-fiction continuity of it. He is also supposed to be the voice of General Havoc  in  Power Rangers LG: Galactic Military Police Defenders but the project was later canceled in July 2011 in turns of a planned reboot. Levitt is previously known for playing the villainous Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra in 2009, but he not returning for the sequel, prior to it being a "Reboot". He is known for his roles in the 2009 indie (500) Days of Summer and Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film Inception. The former earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Beginning in commercials as a young child, he made his film debut in 1992's Beethoven. Gordon-Levitt subsequently co-starred in the television sitcom 3rd Rock from the Sun (1996–2001) as the young Tommy Solomon. After a hiatus during which he attended Columbia University, Gordon-Levitt left television for film acting, appearing in various independent films, beginning with the 2001 film Manic, followed by critically acclaimed performances in 2004's Mysterious Skin, 2005's Brick, and 2007's The Lookout. He runs an online collaborative production company titled HitRECord.

Later Film Career
Gordon-Levitt has said that he made a conscious decision to "be in good movies" after returning to acting.[12] His films include 2001's drama Manic, which was set in a mental institution, Mysterious Skin (2004), in which he played a gay prostitute and child sexual abuse victim, and Brick (2005), a modern-day film noir set at a high school, in which he had the lead role of Brendan Frye, a teen who becomes involved in an underground drug ring while investigating a murder. Brick received positive reviews, with The Minnesota Daily's critic commen

ting that Gordon-Levitt played the character "beautifully", "true to film's style", "unfeeling but not disenchanted", and "sexy in the most ambiguous way."[12] [13] Another reviewer described the performance as "astounding".[14] He also starred opposite Steve Sandvoss as a young judgmental missionary in Latter Days (2003), a film that centers on a sexually confused Mormon missionary (Sandvoss) who falls for his gay neighbor. He had roles in Havoc and Shadowboxer.[15]

His next role was in The Lookout, where he played Chris Pratt, a janitor involved in a bank heist, which was released on March 30, 2007. In reviewing the film, The Philadelphia Inquirer described Gordon-Levitt as a "surprisingly formidable, and formidably surprising, leading man",[16] while New York magazine stated that he is a "major tabula rasa actor ... a minimalist", and that his character worked because he "doesn't seize the space ... by what he takes away from the character."[17] The San Francisco Chronicle specified that he "embodies, more than performs, a character's inner life."[9] His 2008 films include Killshot, in which he played a hoodlum partnered with a hired killer played by Mickey Rourke, and Stop-Loss, directed by Kimberly Peirce and revolving around American soldiers returning from the Iraq War.[12]

He played a lead role opposite Zooey Deschanel in (500) Days of Summer, a 2009 release about the deconstruction of a relationship, which received positive reviews.[15] His performance, described as "the real key" to what makes the film work, credits him with using "his usual spell in subtle gradations."[18] Variety's Todd McCarthy praised his performance, saying he "expressively alternates between enthusiasm and forlorn disappointment in the manner Jack Lemmon could".[19] Peter Travers of Rolling Stone said the movie "hits you like a blast of pure romantic oxygen" and credited both lead actors for playing "it for real, with a grasp of subtlety and feeling that goes beyond the call of breezy duty."[20] He was subsequently nominated for a Golden Globe Award.[21] He also played villain Cobra Commander in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.[22] On November 21, he hosted Saturday Night Live.[23] In 2010, Gordon-Levitt starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Christopher Nolan's science fiction thriller Inception, replacing James Franco<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23">[24] in the role of Arthur, who is the "Point Man", Dom Cobb's (DiCaprio) partner and the person responsible for researching the team's targets. Inception received critical acclaim<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-jglfilmography_14-2">[15] and was number 1 at the US box office for 3 consecutive weeks and has made over $800 million.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24">[25] He will play the younger version of Bruce Willis' character in the time-traveling thriller Looper.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25">[26] He is currently working with Christopher Nolan on Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, Nolan's third and final film of his Batman film series..<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-26">[27]

Stage
He was one of the many producers of the Broadway show Slava's Snowshow.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-27">[28]

Other projects
Gordon-Levitt's side project, hitRECord.org, is an online collaborative production company. According to the hitRECord website, "we create and develop art and media collaboratively here on our site; we use my position in the traditional entertainment industry to turn that creativity into money-making productions; and then we share any profits with the contributing artists".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-28">[29] Gordon-Levitt has owned the website hitrecord.org since 2004, when it hosted six videos and short films.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-29">[30] Beginning in 2009, he opened the website to host films by others. In a 2007 interview in Salon, he was attributed as describing his website as "[an] alternative outlet of where [he] get[s] to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit."<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-simple_30-0">[31] The site has since expanded, with more than 10,000 participants collaborating to make songs, images, stories, and short films. According to a 2010 article in Details magazine, Gordon-Levitt oversees the site from a bank of computers in his home studio.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-details.com_5-1">[6]

Gordon-Levitt's first film as director, the 24 minute-long Sparks, an adaptation of a short story by Elmore Leonard, was selected for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival as part of a new program for short films.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-31">[32] In 2010, he directed another short film, Morgan and Destiny's Eleventeeth Date: The Zeppelin Zoo.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-shortfilm2_32-0">[33] It premiered at two houses during the South by Southwest festival in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas Austin, Texas. ]