Joel Edgerton
Born 23/06/1974
(50 years old)
Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
Biography
JOEL EDGERTON was born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. He has appeared in such films as Erskineville Kings, King Arthur, Ned Kelly and Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, portraying a young Owen Lars, Anakin Skywalker's stepbrother and Luke Skywalker's uncle.
Edgerton was seen in Lionsgate's mixed-martial-arts drama Warrior, opposite Nick Nolte and Tom Hardy. Edgerton plays Hardy's estranged older brother and Nolte's older son, who is the film's main antagonist. Warrior was released on September 9, 2011. Edgerton also starred in Animal Kingdom, a powerful crime drama that explores the intense battle between a criminal family and the police, and the ordinary lives caught in the middle. The film received the World Cinema Jury Prize for drama at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and Australian Film Institute (AFI) Awards for Best Film and Readers' Choice. For his work on the film, Edgerton was honored with an AFI Award for Best Supporting Actor. In 2009, Edgerton starred as Stanley alongside Cate Blanchett in the Sydney Theatre Company's acclaimed production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Edgerton and Blanchett also performed the play to sold-out audiences at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in November 2009, then at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in December 2009.
Edgerton appeared on Disney's The Odd Life of Timothy Green, in which he starred opposite Jennifer Garner. The fable fantasy centers on a childless couple that is unable to conceive. The couple buries all their wishes for a baby in a box in their backyard. One day, they wake up to find that a child is born, but the child is not all that he appears.
In August 2011, Edgerton starred in the Baz Luhrmann-directed remake of The Great Gatsby, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel, for Warner Bros.
Edgerton attended the Nepean Drama School in western Sydney before moving onto various stage productions, most notably at the Sydney Theatre Company, where he performed in Blackrock, Third World Blues and Love for Love, and at Bell Shakespeare, where he performed in Henry IV. On television, Edgerton is known for playing the role of Will in the series The Secret Life of Us, for which he was nominated for an AFI Award.
In 2008, Edgerton was seen in the film The Square, directed by his brother Nash Edgerton. That same year, Edgerton starred in Acolytes, an Australian film about teenagers who take revenge on a serial killer. In 2007, Edgerton was seen in the film Whisper, with Josh Holloway. He also had a significant role in the 2006 American film Smokin’Aces.
In 2005, Edgerton appeared in a lead role, alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor, in the British comedy Kinky Boots, as a deceased shoemaker's son who must find a niche market in the 21 st century. That same year, Edgerton lent his voice to the title character in The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, an Academy Award® nominated animated short film.
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Actor
Movies | |
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2023 |
The Boys in the Boat |
2022 |
Master Gardener |
The Stranger |
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Thirteen Lives |
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2021 |
The Green Knight |
2019 |
The King |
2018 |
Boy Erased |
Gringo |
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Red Sparrow |
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2017 |
Bright |
It Comes at Night |
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2016 |
Jane Got a Gun |
Loving |
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Midnight Special |
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2015 |
Black Mass |
Life |
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The Gift |
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2014 |
Exodus: Gods and Kings |
2013 |
Felony |
The Great Gatsby |
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2012 |
The Odd Life of Timothy Green |
Wish You Were Here |
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Zero Dark Thirty |
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2011 |
The Thing |
Warrior |
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2010 |
Animal Kingdom |
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole |
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2009 |
Separation City |
The Waiting City |
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2008 |
$9.99 |
Acolytes |
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The Square |
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2007 |
Whisper |
2006 |
Open Window |
Smokin' Aces |
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2005 |
Kinky Boots |
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith |
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2004 |
King Arthur |
2003 |
Ned Kelly |
The Night We Called It a Day |
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2002 |
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones |
The Hard Word |
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2000 |
Sample People |
The Three Stooges (TV movie) |
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1999 |
Dogwatch |
Erskineville Kings |
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Secret Men's Business (TV movie) |
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1998 |
Never Tell Me Never (TV movie) |
Praise |
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1996 |
Race the Sun |
Series | ||
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2025 |
Dark Matter |
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Episode 9 (S02E09) |
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Episode 8 (S02E08) |
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Episode 7 (S02E07) |
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more episodes (6) | ||
2024 |
Dark Matter |
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Entanglement (S01E09) |
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Jupiter (S01E08) |
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In the Fires of Dead Stars (S01E07) |
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more episodes (6) | ||
2023 |
I'm a Virgo |
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The Universe and My Spirit (E02) |
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2022 |
Obi-Wan Kenobi |
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Part VI (E06) |
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Part I (E01) |
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2021 |
The Underground Railroad |
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Chapter 10: Mabel (E10) |
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Chapter 9: Indiana Winter (E09) |
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Chapter 8: Indiana Autumn (E08) |
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more episodes (6) | ||
2020 |
Hank the Cowdog |
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2009 |
Dirt Game |
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2007 |
Dangerous |
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2002 |
Dossa and Joe |
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2001 |
The Secret Life of Us |
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Now or Never (S01E21) |
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The Doorway (S01E20) |
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Men on the Verge (S01E19) |
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more episodes (18) | ||
1997 |
Fallen Angels |
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Wildside |
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1996 |
Water Rats |
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1995 |
Spellbinder |
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1989 |
Police Rescue |
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return |
2015 |
Keepers of the Covenant: Making Exodus - Gods and Kings |
Unity |
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2011 |
Fighting Fear - narrator |
2009 |
Inside the Square |
2007 |
The Making of 'Whisper' |
2005 |
20 to 1 (series) |
Blood on the Land: The Making of a King |
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1996 |
Australian Story (series) |
Music videos | |
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2012 |
Duquesne Whistle |
Short | |
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2013 |
The Captain |
2010 |
The Thief |
2007 |
Crossbow |
Spider |
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2005 |
The IF Thing |
The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello |
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2001 |
Saturn's Return (TV movie) |
The Pitch |
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2000 |
Gate |
1998 |
Bloodlock |
1996 |
Loaded |
Producer
Movies | |
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2024 |
I Don’t Understand You |
2022 |
The Stranger |
2019 |
The King |
2018 |
Boy Erased |
2015 |
The Gift |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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2023 |
Wizards! |
2019 |
The King |
2018 |
Boy Erased |
2016 |
Jane Got a Gun |
2015 |
The Gift |
2014 |
The Rover |
2013 |
Felony |
2008 |
The Square |
Short | |
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2011 |
Monkeys |
2008 |
The List |
2001 |
The Pitch |
1998 |
Bloodlock |
Director
Movies | |
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2018 |
Boy Erased |
2015 |
The Gift |
Short | |
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2011 |
Monkeys |
2008 |
The List |
1996 |
Jac et Bill |
Performer
Shows | |
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2018 |
Front Row Flynn |
2017 |
Hollywood First Look |
IMDb on the Scene - Interviews |
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2015 |
Close Up with the Hollywood Reporter |
2013 |
Ok! TV |
2011 |
Dish Nation |
2005 |
Entertainment Tonight Canada |
2004 |
At the Movies |
2003 |
The 2003 Australian Film Institute Awards |
2002 |
Sunrise |
1994 |
Extra |
Sidewalks Entertainment |
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1981 |
Entertainment Tonight |
1979 |
SAG Foundation Conversations |