Joel Edgerton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Joel Edgerton

Australian actor

Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1974

Place of Birth: Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia

Profession: screenwriter, actor, film director, film producer, karateka, television actor, film actor

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

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Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor and filmmaker.
He has appeared in the films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005) as a young Owen Lars, Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Black Mass (2015), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night, (2017) and Red Sparrow (2018).In Australia, Edgerton portrayed Will McGill in the drama series The Secret Life of Us (2001–02), for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Lead Actor in a Television Drama.
He has also appeared in several Australian films, such as The Square (2008), Animal Kingdom (2010), for which he won the AACTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Wish You Were Here (2012), and Felony (2013). 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.