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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.
Skunk Ape is a 2026 American action horror film written and directed by James Wan. It is based on the mythological creature of the same name, as well as the fourth overall installment in the Bigfoot film series and the first chronologically. The film stars Riley Keough, Katherine Waterson, Jeffrey Wright, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Lucas Black, Anne Hathaway, Joel Edgerton, and James Badge Dale. It follows Ellie Lane (reprised by Keough), who goes on a rampage after discovering who killed her parents; the Skunk Ape. She seeks the help of Danny Quinto (reprised by Wright) and his son Warren (reprised by Abdul-Mateen), as well as Allison and David (reprised by Hathaway and Dale), to track the creature down. Skunk Ape was released in theaters on October 17th, 2026; grossing $782 million worldwide, the film was a box-office success but was not well-received. Critics praised the performances of Hathaway, Keough, Wright, Waterson and Dale but criticized its lack of predictability.
