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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.

Boy Erased ( 2018) | IMDb: 6.9

Drama

Jared, the son of a Baptist pastor in a small American town, is outed to his parents at age 19. Jared is faced with an ultimatum: attend a gay conversion therapy program – or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends, and faith.

Starring:

Lucas Hedges , Nicole Kidman , Russell Crowe , Joel Edgerton , Joe Alwyn , Xavier Dolan

Directed by:

Jessie Sasser White , Jean-Paul Chreky , Ben White

Produced by:

Daniel Castle King , Kerry Kohansky-Roberts , Tony Lipp

The Gift ( 2015) | IMDb: 7

Drama , Mystery , Thriller

Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

Starring:

Jason Bateman , Rebecca Hall , Joel Edgerton , Allison Tolman , Tim Griffin , Busy Philipps

Directed by:

Matt Haggerty , Michael J. Moore , Jan McWilliams

Produced by:

Adam Fogelson , Jeanette Volturno , Sarah Domeier Lindo

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Biography