By DAVID WEINER

January 09, 2013

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is one of the hardest-working men in Hollywood today. Following his star turns in Looper, The Dark Knight Rises, Premium Rush and Inception, he also had a key role in Lincoln, just completed a turn in the director's chair for Don Jon's Addiction, and was just cast in the growing company of Sin City: A Dame to Kill For.

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