Known For
Acting
Born
Jun 23, 1974
Place of Birth
Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
Credits
112 titles
Joel Edgerton
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.
Known For
Filmography
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Self - Guest
The Plague
Daddy Wags
Train Dreams
Robert Grainier
Glenmorangie: Once Upon a Time in Scotland
Director
The Brutalist
Thanks
Daughters
Executive Producer
Dark Matter
Jason Dessen / Jason2
I Don't Understand You
Producer
Boy Swallows Universe
Executive Producer
The Boys in the Boat
Coach Al Ulbrickson
Master Gardener
Narvel Roth
The Stranger
Mark Frame
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Self - Owen Lars
Thirteen Lives
Harry Harris
Obi-Wan Kenobi
Owen Lars
The Green Knight Documentary
Self
The Green Knight
Lord
The Underground Railroad
Arnold Ridgeway
The King
Falstaff
Boy Erased
Victor Sykes
Gringo
Richard Rusk
Red Sparrow
Nathaniel "Natan" Nash
Bright
Nick Jakoby
It Comes at Night
Paul
Loving
Richard Loving
WIRED's Autocomplete Interviews
Midnight Special
Lucas
Jane Got a Gun
Dan Frost
Black Mass
John Connolly
Life
John Morris
Unity
Narrator (voice)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
The Gift
Gordo Mosley
Lifted
Paul
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Self
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Ramses II
Felony
Detective Malcolm Toohey
The Rover
Story
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
The Captain
Dead Body
The Great Gatsby
Tom Buchanan
Zero Dark Thirty
Patrick - Squadron Team Leader
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
Jim Green
Wish You Were Here
Dave Flannery
Redemption: Bringing Warrior to Life
Fighting Fear
Narrator
The Thing
Carter
Warrior
Brendan Conlon
The Thief
Joel