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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.

From Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia

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2025 Train Dreams as Robert Grainier Executive Producer

2025 Bluebottle Executive Producer

2025 Fangs as Fangs

2025 Wizards! Story

2025 The Plague as Daddy Wags Producer

2025 Glenmorangie: Once Upon a Time in Scotland Director

2024 The Brutalist Thanks

2024 Daughters Executive Producer

2024 Dark Matter as Jason Dessen / Jason2 Executive Producer

2024 I Don't Understand You Producer

2023 The Boys in the Boat as Coach Al Ulbrickson

2023 Master Gardener as Narvel Roth

2022 The Stranger as Mark Frame Producer

2022 Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return as Self - Owen Lars

2022 Thirteen Lives as Harry Harris

2021 The Green Knight Documentary as Self

2021 The Green Knight as Lord

2019 The King as Falstaff Producer, Screenplay

2018 Boy Erased as Victor Sykes Director, Screenplay, Producer

2018 Gringo as Richard Rusk

2018 Red Sparrow as Nathaniel "Natan" Nash

2017 Bright as Nick Jakoby

2017 It Comes at Night as Paul Executive Producer

2016 Loving as Richard Loving

2016 Midnight Special as Lucas

2015 Jane Got a Gun as Dan Frost Screenplay

2015 Black Mass as John Connolly

2015 Life as John Morris

2015 Unity as Narrator (voice)

2015 The Gift as Gordo Mosley Director, Writer, Producer

2015 Lifted as Paul

2015 Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings' as Self

2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings as Ramses II

2014 Felony as Detective Malcolm Toohey Screenplay, Producer

2014 The Rover Story

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

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 Griff the Invisible Thanks

2011 Monkeys Director, Writer, Producer

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 Acolytes as Ian Wright

2008 The Square as Billy Executive Producer, Writer

2008 The List Director, Writer

2008 Netherland Dwarf Thanks

2007 Whisper as Vince Delayo

2007 Spider as Paramedic

2007 Crossbow as The Dad

2006 Smokin' Aces as Hugo Croop

2006 Open Window as Peter

2005 The IF Thing as Self

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

2004 Fuel Thanks

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

2001 Saturn's Return as Barney

2001 The Pitch as Guy Writer

2000 Gate as David

2000 Sample People as Sem

2000 The Three Stooges as Tom Cosgrove

2000 The Island Thanks

1999 Erskineville Kings as Wayne

1999 Praise as Leo

1999 Secret Men's Business as Baz

1999 Dogwatch as Sparrow

1998 Bloodlock as Danny Producer, Writer

1998 Never Tell Me Never as Pab

1998 Pentuphouse Thanks

1997 Deadline Assistant Camera

1996 Jac et Bill Writer, Director, Producer

1996 Race the Sun as Steve Fryman

1996 Loaded as Frog Producer

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7.80 Unknown 1

6.91 Family 2

6.73 War 2

6.70 Music 1

6.67 History 5

6.64 Fantasy 4

6.58 Animation 3

6.42 Thriller 14

6.42 Mystery 10

6.42 Adventure 10

6.35 Science Fiction 6

6.27 Horror 6

6.22 Crime 12

6.19 Romance 5

6.13 Drama 52

6.05 Documentary 6

6.00 Comedy 17

5.83 Action 15

5.83 Western 1

5.47 TV Movie 3