Claim: Joseph Gordon-Levitt starred in the biopic Snowden.
Evidence: He starred as Philippe Petit in the Robert Zemeckis-directed film The Walk -LRB- 2015 -RRB- , and as Edward Snowden in the Oliver Stone film Snowden -LRB- 2016 -RRB-.
Snowden is a 2016 American-German biographical political thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald , based on the books The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.