
Age: 52
male
Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) is an Australian actor, director, writer, and producer. He has appeared in the films Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones (2002), Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005), Warrior (2011), Zero Dark Thirty (2012), The Great Gatsby (2013), Black Mass (2015), Loving (2016), It Comes at Night (2017), and Red Sparrow (2018) and The King (2019). In 2015, Edgerton received a nomination for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directing – First-Time Feature Film for The Gift, a psychological horror-thriller film Edgerton wrote, directed, co-produced, and in which he co-starred. Edgerton garnered further critical acclaim for his performance as Richard Loving in the 2016 historical drama Loving, for which he received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor. In 2018, he wrote, directed and starred in the drama Boy Erased, about gay conversion therapy. In 2019, he starred and co-wrote The King.

The planet Krypton is in a state of civil war between the king Jor-El and his corrupt brother Kata-Zor. Before Kata-Zor sentences Jor-El to prison, his son Kal-El is launched to a distant planet called earth to fulfill a prophecy. On earth, the boy is adopted by kindly farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent and he is renamed Clark. Then, as he grows up he learns how to use his powers for good. As Kata-Zor's son, Ty-Zor, arrives on earth with three other Kryptonians to find and kill him, Clark is forced to embrace his otherworldly origins for the first time in his life and dons the special suit from Krypton as he prepares to take a stand against an enemy far more powerful than any he's ever known
