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Joel Edgerton

Jun 23, 1974 (50 years old) in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia

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

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Bluey
Policeman (voice)
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Water Rats
Crosby
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
Owen Lars
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Dark Matter
Jason Dessen / Jason2
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The Secret Life of Us
William 'Will' McGill
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Police Rescue
Andy
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The Great Gatsby
Tom Buchanan
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Red Sparrow
Nathaniel "Natan" Nash
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Thirteen Lives
Harry Harris
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Black Mass
John Connolly

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