Joel Edgerton Net Worth | celebrity net worth

What is the net worth of Joel Edgerton?

Joel Edgerton is an Australian actor, screenwriter and director who has a net worth of $4 million. Joel Edgerton is best known for his performances in films such as “Warrior”, “Black Diamond”, “Loving” and “The King”. He also wrote and directed the films “The Gift” and “Boy Erased” in which he also acted. Edgerton appeared on television in the series “The Secret Life of Us”, “Dangerous”, “Dirt Game”, “The Underground Railroad”, “Obi-Wan Kenobi” and others.

Early life and education

Joel Edgerton was born on June 23, 1974 in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia to parents Marian and Michael. He has Dutch ancestry from his mother, who immigrated from The Hague. Edgerton has an older brother named Nash who is an actor, director and businessman. As a young man, Edgerton went to Hills Grammar School. Later on, he attended Nippen School of Drama at Western Sydney University.

Career movie, part one

Edgerton made his feature film debut in 1996 in “Race the Sun” starring Halle Berry and James Belushi. He was later on in “Praise”, “Dogwatch” and “Erskineville Kings”. At the beginning of the new millennium, Edgerton appeared in the cast of “Sample People”. He had his biggest movie hit yet in 2002 when he played Owen Lars in “Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones,” a role he reprized in 2005’s “Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.” Between the two films, Edgerton was in “The Hard Word”, “The Night We Called it a Day”, “Ned Kelly” and “King Arthur”. In the latter half of the 21st century, he appeared in such films as “Smokin’ Aces”, “Whisper”, “Acolytes”, “Separation City” and “The Waiting City”. Edgerton also co-wrote and co-wrote the thriller ‘The Square’ directed by his brother, and provided his voice to the ‘Stop-Motion’ animated movie ‘$9.99’.

In 2010, Edgerton starred in the crime drama “Animal Kingdom” and voiced Metal Beak in the fantasy animated film “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole”. The following year, he starred as an MMA fighter in the sports drama “Warrior,” and played a helicopter pilot in “The Thing,” a prequel to the 1982 John Carpenter film of the same name. Edgerton was later on in “Wish You Were Here” and The Strange Life of Timothy Green, Zero Dark Thirty, and Baz Luhrmann adapted from The Great Gatsby. After that he wrote and starred in the crime thriller “The Felony”. In 2014, Edgerton starred opposite Christian Bale in Ridley Scott’s biblical epic Exodus: Gods and Kings, playing the role of Moses’ adopted brother Ramses II.

Getty Images

Career movie, part 2

Edgerton had a major year on the big screen in 2015. First, he appeared in Anton Corbijn’s biographical drama ‘Life’, where he portrays real-life photojournalist John J. Morris. His next film was his debut as a feature director, the psychological thriller “The Gift”, which he also wrote and starred in. Edgerton later portrayed FBI agent John Connolly in the biographical crime thriller Black Mass, and co-written and starred in the western Jane Got a Gun. He had another big year in 2016 with starring roles in two films directed by Jeff Nichols: the science fiction thriller Midnight Special and the biographical drama Loving. For his portrayal of Richard Loving in the latter title, Edgerton earned a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama.

In 2017, Edgerton starred in the psychological horror film “It Comes at Night” and the fantasy action movie “Bright”. The following year, he starred opposite Jennifer Lawrence in the spy thriller ‘Red Sparrow’, and appeared on the cast of his brother’s comedy ‘Gringo’. Edgerton also wrote, directed, and acted in the biographical drama “Boy Erased” about LGBT conversion therapy. Among his other works is the war movie “The King”. Medieval fantasy “The Green Knight”; survival movie “Thirteen Lives”; and the crime films “The Stranger” and “The Master Gardener”.

TV career

On the small screen, Edgerton made his debut in the 1995 episode of the Australian series “Police Rescue”. He went on to appear in episodes of various other Australian series over the following years, including “Spellbinder”, “Water Rats”, “Big Sky”, “Fallen Angels” and “Wildside”. In 2000, he appeared in the biographical television movie The Three Stooges. Edgerton had his first major role in a regular series from 2001 to 2002, when he played Will McGill in “The Secret Life of Us”. He received an AACTA Award for Best Leading Actor in a Television Drama for his work. Edgerton later appeared in two episodes of “Dossa and Joe”. Later, in 2007, he played his next major role in the movie Dangerous, playing Staff Sergeant Mark Field. Edgerton followed this up with a major role in “Dirt Game” in 2009. He didn’t return to television until 2021, when he played slave hunter Arnold Ridgeway in the Amazon Prime Video series “The Underground Railroad.” After that, Edgerton reprized his previous role in ‘Star Wars’ as Owen Lars in Disney+ series ‘Obi-Wan Kenobi’.

professional stage

Off screen, Edgerton has appeared on stage in a number of productions, many with the Sydney Theater Company. In the nineties, he appeared in the plays “Blackrock”, “Dead White Males”, “Third World Blues” and “Love for Love”. He has also appeared in Bill Shakespeare’s productions of “Henry IV” and “Henry V.” Edgerton returned to Sydney Theater in 2009 to play the role of Stanley Kowalski in “A Streetcar Named Desire”.

Personal life and philanthropy

In 2018, Edgerton began a romantic relationship with the magazine’s fashion director Christine Centenera, whom he has known since the late 1990s. The couple gave birth to twins in 2021.

On the philanthropic side of things, Edgerton is an ambassador for the Fred Hollows Foundation, a non-profit aid organization that works to treat and prevent visual disorders for people across Australia, Asia and Africa.



(Visited 49 times, 1 visits today)

Related posts