As Actor
The Great Gatsby
2013
7.4
Joel Edgerton
Acting
Born
June 23, 1974
Place of Birth
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 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.
The Filmography
As Actor
Zero Dark Thirty
2012
7.0
As Actor
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
7.0
As Actor
Wish You Were Here
2012
5.6
As Actor
Fighting Fear
2011
4.5
As Actor
The Thing
2011
6.2
As Actor
Warrior
2011
7.8
As Actor, As Director, As Writer
Monkeys
2011
6.0
As Actor
The Waiting City
2010
5.9
As Actor
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
2010
6.8
As Actor
Animal Kingdom
2010
6.8
As Actor
Separation City
2009
5.3
As Actor
$9.99
2009
5.9
As Actor, As Writer
The Square
2008
6.2
As Actor
Whisper
2007
6.4
As Actor
Spider
2007
6.5
As Actor
Crossbow
2007
6.1
As Actor
Open Window
2006
5.1
As Actor
Kinky Boots
2005
6.7
As Actor
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello
2005
7.0