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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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February 17, 1981
Birth Name:
Joseph Leonard Gordon-Levitt
Nickname:
Joey
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Awards:
Nominated for 2 Golden Globes. Another 22 wins & 49 nominations.
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Some Facts
Joseph's paternal grandfather, Milton Levitt, was born Milton Levitz in Ohio; Milton's father, Louis Levitz, was a Russian Jewish immigrant, and Milton's mother, Fraudel "Fannie" Isaacson, was born in 1894, in then-Ottoman Palestine, to a Russian Jewish family (that wave of movement to the area was known as the "First Aliyah"). Joseph's paternal grandmother, Celia Roth, was born in Pennsylvania, to Polish Jewish parents. Joseph's maternal grandfather, Michael Gordon, was born Irving Kunin Gordon in Maryland, to a Jewish family from Lithuania and Russia, while Joseph's maternal grandmother, Elizabeth A. Cohn, was born in Ohio, to a Romanian Jewish father and a Russian Jewish mother. Joseph's grandfather Michael Gordon was a prominent Hollywood film director, who directed the films Cyrano de Bergerac (1950), Pillow Talk (1959), Portrait in Black (1960), and many others. Michael Gordon's career was crippled when he was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the mid-Twentieth Century.
When Marion Cotillard was honored at Hollywood Film Festival in 2012, he presented the tribute to her in French, Cotillard's native language. Levitt and Cotillard were co-stars in Inception (2010) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Good friends with Channing Tatum and David Krumholtz. Also friends with Leonardo DiCaprio, Zooey Deschanel, Anne Hathaway, and Emily Blunt.
Grew up with Beverley Mitchell. They attended the same acting class for many years as aspiring child actors.
Good friends with Mysterious Skin (2004) co-star, Michelle Trachtenberg.
Personal Quotes
That's what life is: repetitive routines. It's a matter of finding the balance between deviating from those patterns and knowing when to repeat them.
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I just love to act. It's my favorite thing to do in the world, and what keeps it interesting to me is the creative challenge. So different kinds of characters, that's what I just love to do.
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If you want to talk about an immoral movie, those are the movies that are just blindly re enforcing these cliches of love at first sight, first kiss..get married and ride off together into the sunset. It's systematically ruining people's lives.
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My advantage is that I know the system. Big budgets don't impress me. They might've done when I was 13, but I've been working since I was 6.
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I'm lucky enough, I made money on television when I was young, so I don't have to do parts to support myself. I just do stuff because it'll be fun and challenge me.
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