Actor, screenwriter and filmmaker Joel Edgerton belong to an elite collective of Australian artists who have enjoyed great success in Hollywood. After starting out in showbiz through the Australian tv show Police Rescue, he made his feature film debut in the comedy-drama Race the Sun (1996). Subsequently, Edgerton got his first big break courtesy of the Australian crime film The Hard Word (2002), which earned him an AACTA Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role. The epic space opera film Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), the action thriller Smokin` Aces (2006) were some of the actor`s notable film credits outside of Australian cinema in the early part of his career.

Following AACTA Award-nominated performances in acclaimed movies like The Square (2008) and Animal Kingdom (2011), Edgerton starred alongside Tom Hardy in the sports drama Warrior (2011) - a role that garnered him much praise and marked a turning point in his Hollywood career. In 2015, he wrote, produced, directed and co-starred in the psychological horror-thriller The Gift, which also marked his directorial debut. A critical and commercial success, The Gift (2015) underlined Edgerton`s abilities as a fine actor and filmmaker par excellence. In the same year, his essayal of disgraced former FBI agent in the biographical crime-drama Black Mass (2015) earned Edgerton the Hollywood Film Award for Breakout Actor.

His other film credits include Midnight Special (2016), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), Red Sparrow (2018) and Gringo (2018). In 2018, Edgerton made his sophomore outing as a filmmaker with the coming-of-age drama Boy Erased, which starred Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman in the lead roles.