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Gordon-Levitt stars this summer in the hit “The Dark Knight Rises” and in “Premium Rush.”
Cuteness will carry an actor or actress a long way in Hollywood, usually right into those awkward teen years.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, 31, wasn’t just a cute kid, though. He was a bright, talented one who grew into a television star and a movie actor who opted for projects quirky and big-budget or, sometimes, both.
He’s back in theaters with “Premium Rush,” even as “The Dark Knight Rises” continues to fatten its $901 million worldwide gross. His list of movies is a long one, but here are some of the notables:
1. “The Dark Knight Rises,” 2012 — As policeman John Blake, Gordon-Levitt is all boyish energy and earnestness as an observant (and orphaned) cop promoted to detective during the story. The cop becomes a protege of Commissioner Gordon, and if anyone is going to reprise a role in another movie, it could be him.
2. “50/50,” 2011 — In 2005, writer Will Reiser was diagnosed with a rare cancerous tumor growing along his spine. He fictionalized his experience for this dramedy starring Gordon-Levitt as a Seattle resident who learns he has cancer and Seth Rogen as his bawdy but steadfast best friend.
3. “Inception,” 2010 — Christopher Nolan directed this brilliant sci-fi action picture starring Leonardo DiCaprio as an American thief who can steal secrets from others when they are asleep. Gordon-Levitt is his most trusted colleague, the point man who is all about the details.
4. “(500) Days of Summer,” 2009 — Gordon-Levitt is Tom, who believes in lightning-strikes-once kind of love, and Zooey Deschanel is Summer, who does not, in this unconventional romcom or anti-romcom.
5. “Stop-Loss,” 2008 — Gordon-Levitt appeared alongside Ryan Phillippe and Channing Tatum in this drama about stop-loss, sometimes called a backdoor draft as tours of duty are extended.
6. “The Lookout,” 2007 — This is an unconventional, imperfect but intriguing little crime thriller featuring Gordon-Levitt as a former hotshot high-school athlete.
7. “Brick,” 2006 — Writer-director Rian Johnson won the Sundance Film Festival’s special jury prize for originality of vision with this strange little detective story, set in high school and starring Gordon-Levitt as a teenage loner whose ex-girlfriend is found murdered, not long after placing a brief hysterical call to him.
8. “10 Things I Hate About You,” 1999 — Loosely based on Shakespeare’s “Taming of the Shrew,” this romantic comedy was about two teenage girls, one shrewish and one not, who are forbidden to date by their overly protective father. When a newcomer, played by Gordon-Levitt, is smitten by the younger sister, he and his scheming pal conspire to get a boyfriend for the older girl.
9. “The Juror,” 1996 — Demi Moore played the title role, a single mother and sculptor who is eager to sit on the jury of the murder trial of a
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