Joseph Gordon-Levitt



Joseph Gordon-Levitt (sometimes abbreviated to JGL), born February 17, 1981, started his acting career in commercials as a child, before starring in the show 3rd Rock from the Sun. Since then, he has broken out of the role that 3rd Rock put him in, starring in a string of indie films and most recently Christopher Nolan's Inception.

He prefers to be called Joe.

He also runs a Web site called hitRECord.org, where collaborators from around the world work on various projects. Once a month, Joe will select one "record" to publish and split the money between all the contributors. You can find his tumblr here.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt has starred in:

 * Angels in the Outfield as Roger Bomman (1994)
 * 3rd Rock from the Sun as Tommy Solomon (1996–2001)
 * Ten Things I Hate About You (1999)
 * Manic (2001)
 * Treasure Planet (2002)
 * Mysterious Skin (2003)
 * Brick (2005)
 * The Lookout (2007)
 * Killshot (2009)
 * Five Hundred Days of Summer (2009)
 * G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) — The Doctor aka aka
 * Inception (2010) — Arthur
 * 50/50 (2011) - Adam Lerner
 * The Dark Knight Rises (2012) - John Blake
 * Looper (2012) Joe

Tropes associated with JGL:

 * Adorkable
 * Awesome, Dear Boy: Why he worked on G.I. Joe.
 * Antiquated Linguistics: The entire narration of Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny.
 * Erudite Stoner
 * Former Child Star: Remember him as the lead in Angels in the Outfield.
 * And he was also in 3rd Rock from the Sun.
 * Nice Jewish Boy
 * Older Than They Look: Look at Him. He's Thirty-one!
 * Purple Prose: The entirety of Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny. The waiter is a food penguin and lemons are sour yellows, for example.
 * Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Morgan M. Morgansen's Date with Destiny.
 * Waistcoat of Style: It is, after all, a picture of him on that page.