Joel Edgerton
- Acting
- June 23, 1974 · 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Dark Matter: The Official Podcast · Self
- Skip Intro · Self
- The Plague · Daddy Wags, Producer
- Train Dreams · Robert Grainier, Executive producer
- Glenmorangie: Once Upon a Time in Scotland · Director
- The Brutalist · Thanks
- Daughters · Executive producer
- Dark Matter · Jason Dessen / Jason2, Executive producer
- 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, Producer
- Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return · Self
- 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, Producer
- Boy Erased · Victor Sykes, Director
- Gringo · Richard Rusk
- Red Sparrow · Nathaniel "Natan" Nash
- Bright · Nick Jakoby
- It Comes at Night · Paul, Executive producer
- Loving · Richard Loving
- Midnight Special · Lucas
- Jane Got a Gun · Dan Frost, Screenplay
- Black Mass · John Connolly
- Life · John Morris
- Unity · Narrator (Voice)
- Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter · Self
- The Gift · Gordo Mosley, Director
- 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, Screenplay
- The Rover · Story
- Late Night with Seth Meyers · Self
- 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
- The Cartographer · The Envoy (Voice)
- Griff the Invisible · Thanks
- Monkeys · Director, Writer
- The Waiting City · Ben Simmons
- Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole · Metalbeak (Voice)
- Animal Kingdom · Barry 'Baz' Brown
- Separation City · Simon Nicholson
- $9.99 · Ron (Voice)
- Dirt Game · Shane Bevic
- Acolytes · Ian Wright
- The Square · Billy, Writer
- The List · Writer, Director
- Netherland Dwarf · Thanks
- Whisper · Vince Delayo
- Spider · Paramedic
- Crossbow · The Dad
- Dangerous · Senior Sergeant Mark Field
- Smokin' Aces · Hugo Croop
- Open Window · Peter
- The IF Thing · Self
- Kinky Boots · Charlie Price
- Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith · Owen Lars
- The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello · Jasper Morello (Voice)
- Blood on the Land: The Making of a King · Self
- King Arthur · Gawain
- Fuel · Thanks
- The Night We Called It a Day · Rod Blue
- Ned Kelly · Aaron Sherritt
- Courts mais Gay : Tome 5 · Barney
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! · Self