Joel Edgerton
Birthday: 1974-06-23 | Place of Birth: Blacktown, New South Wales, AustraliaJoel 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
Acting
Role
as Mark Frame
as Arnold Ridgeway
as Lord
as Falstaff
as Nathaniel "Natan" Nash
as Richard Rusk
as Victor Sykes
as Nick Jakoby
as Paul
as Dan Frost
as Lucas
as Richard Loving
as Gordo Mosley
as John Connolly
as John Morris
as Detective Malcolm Toohey
as Ramses II
as Dave Flannery
as Dead Body
as Tom Buchanan
as Jim Green
as Patrick - Squadron Team Leader
as Brendan Conlon
as Narrator
as Sam Carter
as Barry 'Baz' Brown
as Ben Simmons
as Metalbeak (voice)
as Ian Wright
