Australian multi-hyphenate Joel Edgerton will probably be honored with this 12 months’s Actors Award on the 33nd Camerimage, the world’s main movie pageant on the artwork of cinematography.
Edgerton will attend Camerimage, which runs Nov. 15-22 in Toruń, Poland, with Clint Bentley’s Practice Goals. Edgerton stars as an itinerant employee within the early 1900s Pacific Northwest within the adaptation of the Denis Johnson novella, which premiered at Sundance. Netflix is giving the movie a brief theatrical bow this week earlier than taking it worldwide on the platform Nov. 21.
Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Edgerton began his profession on stage, performing with Shakespeare and fashionable roles with the Sydney Theatre Firm within the Nineteen Nineties. He first gained nationwide consideration by Aussie TV drama The Secret Lifetime of Us, which earned him an AACTA Award for Finest Actor. George Lucas raised Edgerton’s worldwide profile when he solid him as Owen Lars, the stepbrother of Anakin Skywalker and future guardian of Luke Skywalker, in his Star Wars prequels.
However Edgerton’s actual breakthrough got here in 2010, in David Michôd’s crime drama Animal Kingdom. Edgerton performed Barry “Baz” Brown, the gang’s most level-headed and empathetic member, whose dying early within the movie units off the chain of violence that drives the movie. The function drew worldwide consideration and positioned him amongst a brand new era of Australian actors and filmmakers. That very same 12 months, he co-wrote The Sq., directed by his brother Nash Edgerton, establishing a parallel profession as a screenwriter and producer.
In Hollywood, Edgerton turned recognized for advanced, understated performances. He starred, alongside Tom Hardy and Nick Nolte, as schoolteacher-turned-MMA fighter Brendan Conlon in Gavin O’Connor’s Warrior (2011) and appeared as a U.S. navy operative in Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Darkish Thirty (2012). In Baz Luhrmann’s The Nice Gatsby (2013), he portrayed Tom Buchanan, the rich and conceited husband of Daisy Buchanan, reverse Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan.
Additional roles included the Hebrew chief Ramses reverse Christian Bale in Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) and a conflicted FBI agent in Scott Cooper’s Black Mass (2015). His portrayal of Richard Loving in Jeff Nichols’ Loving (2016) — the real-life Virginian whose marriage to Mildred Loving (performed within the movie by Ruth Negga) — led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court docket case — earned him a Golden Globe nomination.
Edgerton made his directorial debut with The Present (2015), a psychological thriller he additionally wrote and starred in, which earned a Administrators Guild of America nomination for excellent first function. He adopted with Boy Erased (2018), primarily based on Garrard Conley’s memoir, which obtained a number of nominations together with at Camerimage. In Michôd’s The King (2019), he co-wrote the screenplay and performed Sir John Falstaff, the dissolute mentor and confidant to Timothée Chalamet’s Henry V.
Latest work consists of Thomas M. Wright The Stranger (2022), Paul Schrader’s Grasp Gardener (2022) and Charlie Polinger’s The Plague (2025). Edgerton continues to stability performing, writing and directing, sustaining an lively presence in each Australian and worldwide cinema.
