# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/joel-edgerton
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:41:14.488Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/joel-edgerton"
name: "Joel Edgerton"
slug: "joel-edgerton"
description: "Joel Edgerton is an Australian actor and filmmaker. He is known for his portrayal of Will McGill on the first two seasons of the Australian drama series The Secret Life of Us (2001–2002), and for playing Owen Lars in the Star Wars films Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005), a role he reprised in the Disney+ series Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022). He also voiced Metal Beak from Warner Bros. Pictures' fantasy adventure film Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010). For his portrayal of Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, and a further nomination in the same category for his critically acclaimed performance in Train Dreams (2025)."
tagline: "Australian actor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Joel_Edgerton_-_Train_Dreams.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AU"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1974-06-23"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  85
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ranks:
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  country:  168
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump