Joseph Gordon Levitt

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About

Joseph Gordon Levitt is an American actor best known for his roles in 500 Days of Summer and 3rd Rock From the Sun.

Acting Career

Joseph Gordon Levitt began his acting career in 1988 with a string of TV movies and guest roles on TV series like Family Ties and Murder She Wrote. He had lead roles in Dark Shadows (1991) and The Powers That Be (1992-1993), and landed one of his most well known roles, Tommy Solomon on the comedy 3rd Rock From the Sun in 1996. The show ran for six season before ending in 2001. Levitt starred in several feature films in the late '90s and early 2000s including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) and Manic (2001). Levitt has been nominated for two Golden Globes for his performances in (500) Days of Summer (2009) and 50/50 (2011). In 2013 he made his directing debut with Don Jon, which he also wrote and starred in.

Online History

Hit Record

In 2005 Levitt created Hit Record,^[3] a web platform that allows users to collaborate to create film and other multi-media projects, in 2005 with the help of his brother.^[4] On August 13th, 2014, hitRecord's YouTube channel^[5] announced the collaborative TV show Hit Record on TV, which aired on Pivot, had been awarded an Emmy for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media in the Category of Social TV experience.

Zooey Deschanel Duet

On December 28th, 2011, HelloGiggle's YouTube channel^[8] uploaded a video featuring Levitt and his (500) Days of Summer co-star Zooey Deschanel performing a duet of "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve." The duet was covered by several sites including People^[6] and PopCrush.^[7] As of September 2014, the video has gained over 14.8 million views.

He Will Never Have a Girlfriend

He Will Never Have a Girlfriend (alt: "She Will Never Have a Boyfriend") is a series of multi-pane rage comics featuring Cereal Guy's reaction to pre-fame and post-fame comparison photographs of well-known celebrities. The first instance of the image macro^[1] was posted by Reddit user hannahisapalindrome depicting two photos of Gordon-Levitt, one at young age and another one at older age, on February 8th, 2011. The comics typically use the structure of Cereal Guy's reaction to the pre-fame or childhood photograph of a celebrity, followed by Cereal Guy's "food-spitting" reaction to the glamorous photograph of the same celebrity. Prior to this series, unflattering "before-and-after" comparisons of celebrity photographs have been explored on the Korean web in the early 2000s, largely driven by the growth of anti-fan communities.