Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1974-06-23 (Age: 52)
Place of Birth
Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
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.
Filmography (73)
The Plague
2025
Train Dreams
2025
The Boys in the Boat
2023
Master Gardener
2023
The Stranger
2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
Thirteen Lives
2022
The Green Knight Documentary
2021
The Green Knight
2021
The King
2019
Boy Erased
2018
Gringo
2018
Red Sparrow
2018
Bright
2017
