Joel Edgerton
Known For
Acting
Born
1974-06-23 in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer, and producer. He has appeared in the films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Black Mass (2015), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), and Red Sparrow (2018) and The King (2019). In 2015, Edgerton received a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film for The Gift, a psychological horror-thriller film Edgerton wrote, directed, co-produced, and in which he co-starred. Edgerton garnered further critical acclaim for his performance as Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 2018, he wrote, directed and starred in the drama Boy Erased, about gay conversion therapy. In 2019, he starred and co-wrote The King.
Most Known For
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
Australian Story
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
The Plague
as Daddy Wags
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Obi-Wan Kenobi
as Owen Lars
Dark Matter
as Jason Dessen / Jason2
Train Dreams
as Robert Grainier
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
as Owen Lars
Water Rats
as Crosby
Water Rats
as Aaron Lawrence
Police Rescue
as Andy
The Great Gatsby
as Tom Buchanan
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
as Owen Lars
Exodus: Gods and Kings
as Ramses II
Red Sparrow
as Nathaniel "Natan" Nash
Warrior
as Brendan Conlon
The King
as Falstaff
Ned Kelly
as Aaron Sherritt