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Joel Edgerton

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Joel Edgerton

Born Jun 23, 1974 · 52 years112 titles 92 movies · 20 TV
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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.

Also known as

Joel Michael Edgerton · Джоэл Эджертон

Born

Jun 23, 1974

Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

96

Acting credits

6

Directing

13

Writing

25

Other crew

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