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Joel Edgerton

Joel Edgerton

Birthday: 1974-06-23 | Place of Birth: Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia

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.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The Stranger

as    Mark Frame

2021
The Underground Railroad

as    Arnold Ridgeway

2021
The Green Knight

as    Lord

2019
The King

as    Falstaff

2018
Red Sparrow

as    Nathaniel "Natan" Nash

2018
Gringo

as    Richard Rusk

2018
Boy Erased

as    Victor Sykes

2017
Bright

as    Nick Jakoby

2017
It Comes at Night

as    Paul

2016
Jane Got a Gun

as    Dan Frost

2016
Midnight Special

as    Lucas

2016
Loving

as    Richard Loving

2015
The Gift

as    Gordo Mosley

2015
Black Mass

as    John Connolly

2015
Life

as    John Morris

2014
Felony

as    Detective Malcolm Toohey

2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings

as    Ramses II

2013
Wish You Were Here

as    Dave Flannery

2013
The Captain

as    Dead Body

2013
The Great Gatsby

as    Tom Buchanan

2012
The Odd Life of Timothy Green

as    Jim Green

2012
Zero Dark Thirty

as    Patrick - Squadron Team Leader

2011
Warrior

as    Brendan Conlon

2011
Fighting Fear

as    Narrator

2011
The Thing

as    Sam Carter

2010
Animal Kingdom

as    Barry 'Baz' Brown

2010
The Waiting City

as    Ben Simmons

2010
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

as    Metalbeak (voice)

2009
Acolytes

as    Ian Wright