Joseph Gordon Levitt

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is the grandson of film director Michael Gordon , responsible for titles such as Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) or Three Heiresses . In his case, the generational inheritance took a leap with his parents, two political activists who met in Los Angeles, the city where they decided to start a family. From this relationship, Joseph was born on February 17, 1981. Living in a city like Los Angeles and having a director grandfather, it is not uncommon for Joseph to make his debut in the telefilm starring Tommy Lee Jones , Stranger on My Land , at the age of 6.(1988). Little Joseph had participated in the musical “The Wizard of Oz” at school, and an agent suggested to the family that he dedicate himself to acting professionally.

And so it was, from 1988 his works followed one another on the small screen, although none of special relevance. His film debut was in 1992 as a supporting role in the Beethoven family film. One more of the family . That same year Robert Redford gave him a chance, also in a supporting role, in The River of Life . His career continued uninterrupted by titles such as Unscrupulous (1994), an action film starring Christopher Lambert or the thriller-tinged drama Duress of a Jury (1996), where he was the threatened son of Demi Moore . That same year he became famous, especially in the United States, thanks to the television seriesThings of Martians (1996-2001). In this comedy that satirized the day-to-day life of the modern world, Joseph played Tommy Solomon, one of the Martians who arrive on Earth and who pretends to be one of them to study human behavior. The group was comical and totally satirical, as evidenced by the fact that the young Joseph imprisoned the oldest crew member of the alien ship in his adolescent body.

Joseph knew how to combine his work in the series with his film work. In 1998 he was supporting in the return to the horror genre of the evil Michael Myers in Halloween H20 . A year later he joined the recently deceased Heath Ledger in the teen romantic comedy 10 Reasons I Hate You ., where he devised a Machiavellian plan to get a date with the girl of his dreams. However, these types of characters that could fit into the more commercial label are not the ones that most attract Joseph, since despite his youth, he does not feel overwhelmed by Hollywood or eager to achieve fame. . As he states, “in the old days actors weren’t celebrities, in fact, they used to be poor. And now Hollywood has created all this. I think it’s not healthy. We have created a culture that affects the rest of the world and promotes selfishness, greed and this maxim that suggests that you are a better person if you have a lot of money. This has nothing to do with the work itself, because I love movies. But this world of stars has nothing to do with cinema”, says Joseph full of wisdom. With this way of seeing life, which also leads him to affirm things like “astronauts and teachers are much more interesting than actors”, Gordon-Levitt faces his career with a clairvoyance inappropriate for someone his age and less than a young man who has been in Hollywood for so many years. Since all this verbiage has a faithful reflection in the type of life that Joseph leads and has led.

With such clear ideas and determined to interpret the characters that really captivate him, Joseph faced his first protagonist in the drama Manic (2001), where he was a young man admitted to a psychiatric hospital due to his sudden attacks of anger. Previously, Joseph decided to attend the prestigious Columbia University to study French, although he dropped out after two years. His life was linked to acting, a profession that he continued to cultivate with titles such as Dark Innocence (2004), where he was a young victim of abuse, and the excellent thriller Brick (2005) where he carried out a complex search to find his missing girlfriend. The recent The Lookout was also a thriller(2007), where, victim of a great depression, he was tempted to carry out an important robbery. Now it is about to premiere in Absent Spain , a war drama starring Ryan Phillippe and where Joseph has been one of his fellow soldiers stationed in Iraq. He has recently starred in the drama Uncertainty , about the sentimental relationship of a young couple, and which has had the Spanish Assumpta Serna as secondary. Already in a more commercial line, Joseph has gotten into the skin of the evil Cobra in the film adaptation of the GI Joe comic .