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Joel Edgerton
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 Wa…
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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.
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2026
Dark Matter: The Official Podcast
TV show Self
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2026
Skip Intro
TV show Self - Guest
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2025
The Plague
Movie Daddy Wags
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2025
Train Dreams
Movie Robert Grainier
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2025
Glenmorangie: Once Upon a Time in Scotland
Movie Director
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2024
The Brutalist
Movie Thanks
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2024
Daughters
Movie Executive Producer
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2024
Dark Matter
TV show Jason Dessen / Jason2
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2024
I Don't Understand You
Movie Producer
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2024
Boy Swallows Universe
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
The Boys in the Boat
Movie Coach Al Ulbrickson
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2023
Master Gardener
Movie Narvel Roth
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2022
The Stranger
Movie Mark Frame
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2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Movie Self - Owen Lars
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2022
Thirteen Lives
Movie Harry Harris
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2022
Obi-Wan Kenobi
TV show Owen Lars
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2021
The Green Knight Documentary
Movie Self
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2021
The Green Knight
Movie Lord
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2021
The Underground Railroad
TV show Arnold Ridgeway
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2019
The King
Movie Falstaff
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2018
Boy Erased
Movie Victor Sykes
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2018
Gringo
Movie Richard Rusk
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2018
Red Sparrow
Movie Nathaniel "Natan" Nash
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2017
Bright
Movie Nick Jakoby
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2017
It Comes at Night
Movie Paul
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2016
Loving
Movie Richard Loving
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2016
Midnight Special
Movie Lucas
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2015
Jane Got a Gun
Movie Dan Frost
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2015
Black Mass
Movie John Connolly
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2015
Life
Movie John Morris
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2015
Unity
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
TV show Self
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2015
The Gift
Movie Gordo Mosley
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2015
Lifted
Movie Paul
- 2015
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Movie Ramses II
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2014
Felony
Movie Detective Malcolm Toohey
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2014
The Rover
Movie Story
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2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
TV show Self - Guest
