Joel Edgerton
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Dark Matter as Jason Dessen / Jason2
- 2023 · The Boys in the Boat as Coach Al Ulbrickson
- 2023 · Master Gardener as Narvel Roth
- 2022 · The Stranger as Mark Frame
- 2022 · Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Owen Lars
- 2022 · Thirteen Lives as Harry Harris
- 2022 · Obi-Wan Kenobi as Owen Lars
- 2021 · The Green Knight as Lord
- 2021 · The Underground Railroad as Arnold Ridgeway
- 2019 · The King as Falstaff
- 2018 · Bluey as Policeman (voice)
- 2018 · Boy Erased as Victor Sykes
- 2018 · Gringo as Richard Rusk
- 2018 · Red Sparrow as Nathaniel "Natan" Nash
- 2017 · Bright as Nick Jakoby
- 2017 · It Comes at Night as Paul
- 2016 · Loving as Richard Loving
- 2016 · Midnight Special as Lucas
- 2015 · Jane Got a Gun as Dan Frost
- 2015 · Black Mass as John Connolly
- 2015 · Life as John Morris
- 2015 · Unity as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 · Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter as Self
- 2015 · The Gift as Gordo Mosley
- 2015 · Lifted as Paul
- 2015 · Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self
- 2014 · Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
- 2014 · Exodus: Gods and Kings as Ramses II
- 2014 · Felony as Detective Malcolm Toohey
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2013 · The Captain as Dead Body
- 2013 · The Great Gatsby as Tom Buchanan
- 2012 · Zero Dark Thirty as Patrick - Squadron Team Leader
- 2012 · The Odd Life of Timothy Green as Jim Green
- 2012 · Wish You Were Here as Dave Flannery
- 2011 · Redemption: Bringing Warrior to Life as
- 2011 · Fighting Fear as Narrator
- 2011 · The Thing as Sam Carter
- 2011 · Warrior as Brendan Conlon
- 2011 · The Thief as Joel
- 2011 · The Cartographer as The Envoy (voice)
- 2011 · Monkeys as
- 2010 · The Waiting City as Ben Simmons
- 2010 · Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole as Metalbeak (voice)
- 2010 · Animal Kingdom as Barry 'Baz' Brown
- 2009 · Separation City as Simon Nicholson
- 2009 · $9.99 as Ron (voice)
- 2009 · Dirt Game as Shane Bevic
- 2009 · Acolytes as Ian Wright
- 2008 · The Square as Billy
- 2007 · Whisper as Vince Delayo
- 2007 · Spider as Paramedic
- 2007 · Crossbow as The Dad
- 2007 · Dangerous as Senior Sergeant Mark Field
- 2006 · Smokin' Aces as Hugo Croop
- 2006 · Open Window as Peter
- 2005 · The IF Thing as Himself
- 2005 · Kinky Boots as Charlie Price
- 2005 · Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith as Owen Lars
- 2005 · The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello as Jasper Morello (voice)
- 2004 · King Arthur as Gawain
- 2003 · The Night We Called It a Day as Rod Blue
- 2003 · Ned Kelly as Aaron Sherritt
- 2003 · Courts mais Gay : Tome 5 as Barney
- 2002 · The Hard Word as Shane
- 2002 · Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones as Owen Lars
- 2002 · Dossa and Joe as Robbo
- 2001 · The Secret Life of Us as William 'Will' McGill
- 2001 · Saturn's Return as Barney
- 2001 · The Pitch as Guy
- 2000 · Gate as David
- 2000 · Sample People as Sem
- 2000 · The Three Stooges as Tom Cosgrove
- 1999 · Erskineville Kings as Wayne
- 1999 · Praise as Leo
- 1999 · Dogwatch as Sparrow
- 1999 · Secret Men's Business as Baz
- 1998 · Bloodlock as Danny
- 1998 · Never Tell Me Never as Pab
- 1997 · Big Sky as
- 1996 · Race the Sun as Steve Fryman
- 1996 · Water Rats as Crosby
- 1996 · Water Rats as Aaron Lawrence
- 1995 · Spellbinder as
- Future · The Entertainment System Is Down as
- Future · The Plague as
- 1996 · Loaded as Frog
- 1991 · Police Rescue as Andy
- Future · Train Dreams as Robert Grainier