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Joel Edgerton
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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As actor
Train Dreams
The Plague
The Boys in the Boat
Master Gardener
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Thirteen Lives
The Stranger
The Green Knight
The Green Knight Documentary
The King
Gringo
Red Sparrow
Boy Erased
Bright
It Comes at Night
Midnight Special
Loving
Jane Got a Gun
Black Mass
Life
The Gift
Keepers of the Covenant: Making 'Exodus: Gods and Kings'
Unity
Lifted
Exodus: Gods and Kings
Felony
The Great Gatsby
The Captain
Wish You Were Here
The Odd Life of Timothy Green