Joel Edgerton Biography

Joel Edgerton biography

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NAME: Joel Edgerton
OCCUPATION: Actor
BIRTH DATE: June 23, 1974 (Age: 38)
EDUCATION: Hills Grammar School, University of Western Sydney Nepean Drama School
PLACE OF BIRTH: Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
ZODIAC SIGN: Cancer

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Australian actor, producer, writer and director Joel Edgerton played Will McGill in the soap opera The Secret Life of Us, and Tom Buchanan in The Great Gatsby.

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In 2012, Edgerton starred in The Odd Life of Timothy Green opposite Jennifer Garner. Around the same time, the actor signed on for Kathryn Bigelow’s movie about Osama Bin Laden, Zero Dark Thirty (2012).

Edgerton’s other recent projects include playing Tom Buchanan in a much anticipated remake of the movie The Great Gatsby,

which is slated to be released in 2013 and is based on the classic novel of same name written by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edgerton's co-stars in the film include Leonardo DiCaprio, playing the lead character, Jay Gatsby.