Joel Edgerton

Acting · Born 1974-06-23 in 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…

Filmography

• The Great Gatsby as Tom Buchanan
• The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Jim Green
• The Boys in the Boat as Coach Al Ulbrickson
• Warrior as Brendan Conlon
• Zero Dark Thirty as Patrick - Squadron Team Leader
• Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith as Owen Lars
• Train Dreams as Robert Grainier
• Boy Erased as Victor Sykes
• The King as Falstaff
• Thirteen Lives as Harry Harris

TV

• Dark Matter as Jason Dessen / Jason2
• The Secret Life of Us as William 'Will' McGill
• Spellbinder as Bazza
• Dangerous as Senior Sergeant Mark Field
• Water Rats as Crosby
• Big Sky
• Dossa and Joe as Robbo
• Dirt Game as Shane Bevic
• Obi-Wan Kenobi as Owen Lars
• Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self - Guest