Joel Edgerton

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.

CritifyHub Reviews Featuring Joel Edgerton

Quiet Courage in the Frame: The Subtle Power of Loving

on Loving | Jul 18, 2025

Jeff Nichols’ Loving (2016) unfolds with a deliberate restraint that mirrors the quiet resilience of its protagonists, Richard and Mildred Loving, whose interracial marriage challenged Virginia’s anti... Read more

A Hallucinatory Pilgrimage Through the Fog of Legend

on The Green Knight | Jun 15, 2025

David Lowery’s The Green Knight is not so much an adaptation of the 14th-century poem as it is an alchemical transformation turning Arthurian myth into a haunting meditation on mortality, masculinity,... Read more