Joel Edgerton

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Biography

Joel Edgerton was born on June 23, 1974 in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, to Marianne and Michael Edgerton, who is a solicitor and property developer. His brother is filmmaker 'Nash Edgerton' .

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·producer·writer
  • Country
  • Australia
  • Nationality
  • Australian
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 23 June 1974
  • Place of birth
  • Blacktown
  • Education
  • Western Sydney University
  • Knows language
  • English language

Movies

TV

Trivia

The Edgerton brothers have collaborated on several film projects.

Joels brother, Nash Edgerton , was also in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones . Nash was the stunt double for Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi).

Joel appears in the music video for Ben Lee s 2002 single "Something Borrowed, Something Blue". The music video was directed by Joels brother Nash Edgerton.

Attended Hills Grammar School in Sydneys north-west.

When he graduated from high school he attended University of Western Sydney-Nepean Kingswood Campus and studied Drama there

Is the second Star Wars actor to have played Sir Gawain in a King Arthur movie. Liam Neeson played the role in Excalibur .

Auditioned for the role of "Ty-Zor" in McG s now-aborted version of "Superman."

Starred in Ned Kelly with Orlando Bloom. Bloom in turn starred with Keira Knightley in Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl . Kiera also starred in King Arthur with Edgerton.

Studied acting at Theatre Nepean in Sydney, Australia.

Founding member of Blue-Tongue Films.

His short film Monkeys was selected for Australian short film event Final Cut in 2012, where it was awarded the Audience Favourite Prize alongside short films from award-winning filmmakers David Ludlow [ Drifting ] and Kelly Hucker [ Kwik Fix ].

His favorite actors are Gene Hackman, Gary Oldman, Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ben Mendelsohn.

Was in a relationship with Olympic Gold medalist Cathy Freeman from 2003-2005.

In 2013, he was set to star in The Double Hour , a remake of the Italian film La doppia ora , alongside Michelle Williams , but the project fell apart.

Quotes

My brother and I are best friends.

The first video I ever watched was on a Beta system because everyone,thought Beta was the way but then it ended up being video so we backed,the wrong horse.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Whenever you deal with science fiction you are setting up a world of,rules. I think you work hard to establish the rules. And you also have,to work even harder to maintain those rules, and within that find,excitement and unpredictability and all that stuff.

It feels good to be fit and strong.

I did my holy communion, and it was amazing how quickly the stories of the Bible and God and Jesus got under my skin.

Every job leaves its residue, a bit of extra knowledge, a new skill-set.

Fighting in the ring or cage is very much different from fighting in the street. Fighting in the street is very much fueled by anger, pride, and male dominance and ego.

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