Actor

Joel Edgerton

Acting

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Acting credits

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Very extensive acting filmography.

TMDB popularity

3.7

Moderate attention

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Movies: 85Series: 17Crew credits: 29

TMDB ID: 33192

IMDb ID: nm0249291

Known for: Acting

Born: June 23, 1974

Age: 52

Place of birth: Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1991 - 2026

Years active: 36

Average TMDB rating: 6.42

Wikidata: Q381768

Also known as

Joel Michael Edgerton • Джоэл Эджертон

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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.