
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.
Filmography50+ titles

Big Sky

Dark Matter

Thirteen Lives

Warrior

Spellbinder

Unity

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

The Great Gatsby

Train Dreams

Boy Swallows Universe

The Boys in the Boat

The Underground Railroad

The King

Daughters

The Brutalist

Obi-Wan Kenobi

Boy Erased

Zero Dark Thirty

The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Dirt Game

Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return

Animal Kingdom

Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole

Loving

The Gift

Kinky Boots

The Green Knight

Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones

The Plague

Red Sparrow

Black Mass

Spider

Smokin' Aces

Police Rescue

Midnight Special

The Rover

Whisper

King Arthur

Water Rats

The Stranger

Bright

The Thing

The Square

Ned Kelly

Master Gardener

Life

Gringo

It Comes at Night

Exodus: Gods and Kings

The Waiting City