
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.

Late Night with Seth Meyers
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Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
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Water Rats
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Water Rats
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Police Rescue
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Obi-Wan Kenobi
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Dark Matter
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Australian Story
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Train Dreams
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The Secret Life of Us
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Spellbinder
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Spellbinder
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The Great Gatsby
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The Underground Railroad
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Exodus: Gods and Kings
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Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith
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