Joel Edgerton Caitlin Cronenberg Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Australian multi-hyphenate Joel Edgerton will be honored with this year's Actors Award at the 33nd Camerimage, the world's leading film festival on the art of cinematography. Edgerton will attend Camerimage, which runs Nov. 15-22 in Toruń, Poland, with Clint Bentley's Train Dreams. Edgerton stars as an itinerant worker in the early 1900s Pacific Northwest in the adaptation of the Denis Johnson novella, which premiered at Sundance. Netflix is giving the film a short theatrical bow this week before taking it worldwide on the platform Nov. 21. Related Stories TV Series' Women Participants From Across Europe Unveiled Movies Marrakech: Guillermo del Toro, Jodie Foster Set for Tributes Born in Blacktown, New South Wales, Edgerton started his career on stage, performing with Shakespeare and modern roles with the Sydney Theatre Company in the 1990s. He first gained national attention through Aussie TV drama The Secret Life of Us, which earned him an AACTA Award for Best Actor. George Lucas raised Edgerton's international profile when he cast him as Owen Lars, the stepbrother of Anakin Skywalker and future guardian of Luke Skywalker, in his Star Wars prequels. But Edgerton's real breakthrough came in 2010, in David Michôd's crime drama Animal Kingdom. Edgerton played Barry "Baz" Brown, the gang's most level-headed and empathetic member, whose death early in the film sets off the chain of violence that drives the film. The role drew international attention and positioned him among a new generation of Australian actors and filmmakers. That same year, he co-wrote The Square, directed by his brother Nash Edgerton, establishing a parallel career as a screenwriter and producer. In Hollywood, Edgerton became known for complex, 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. military operative in Kathryn Bigelow's Zero Dark Thirty (2012). In Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby (2013), he portrayed Tom Buchanan, the wealthy and arrogant husband of Daisy Buchanan, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. Further roles included the Hebrew leader Ramses opposite 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 (played in the film by Ruth Negga) - led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case - earned him a Golden Globe nomination. Edgerton made his directorial debut with The Gift (2015), a psychological thriller he also wrote and starred in, which earned a Directors Guild of America nomination for outstanding first feature. He followed with Boy Erased (2018), based on Garrard Conley's memoir, which received multiple nominations including at Camerimage. In Michôd's The King (2019), he co-wrote the screenplay and played Sir John Falstaff, the dissolute mentor and confidant to Timothée Chalamet's Henry V. Recent work includes Thomas M. Wright The Stranger (2022), Paul Schrader's Master Gardener (2022) and Charlie Polinger's The Plague (2025). Edgerton continues to balance acting, writing and directing, maintaining an active presence in both Australian and international cinema. THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day Subscribe Sign Up Marrakech International Film Festival Marrakech: Guillermo del Toro, Jodie Foster Set for Tributes Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn Fest Head on Dialogue Through Film, Rather Than Boycotts, and New Baltic Docs Competition Jeremy Strong Daniel Day-Lewis Calls Out Brian Cox for Creating a "Conflict" Over Method Acting Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Box Office Retreat: 'Regretting You' Cedes Weekend Crown to 'Black Phone 2,' But It's a Hollow Win Obituaries Otto Nemenz, Supplier and Designer of Cameras and Lenses for Hollywood, Dies at 83 Tokyo International Film Festival 'Tokyo Taxi' Review: From Japan, a Sentimental, Senior-Skewed Crowdpleaser Marrakech International Film Festival Marrakech: Guillermo del Toro, Jodie Foster Set for Tributes Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn Fest Head on Dialogue Through Film, Rather Than Boycotts, and New Baltic Docs Competition Jeremy Strong Daniel Day-Lewis Calls Out Brian Cox for Creating a "Conflict" Over Method Acting Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere Box Office Retreat: 'Regretting You' Cedes Weekend Crown to 'Black Phone 2,' But It's a Hollow Win Obituaries Otto Nemenz, Supplier and Designer of Cameras and Lenses for Hollywood, Dies at 83 Tokyo International Film Festival 'Tokyo Taxi' Review: From Japan, a Sentimental, Senior-Skewed Crow