ACTOR

Joel Edgerton

1974 - Today

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Joel Edgerton (born 23 June 1974) 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 (2001–02), 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Joel Edgerton has received more than 14,565,569 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Joel Edgerton is the 4,512th most popular actor (down from 3,392nd in 2019), the 192nd most popular biography from Australia (down from 130th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Australian Actor.

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  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Joel Edgerton ranks 4,512 out of 13,578Before him are Tom Byron, Lolita Flores, Sebastian Roché, Lupita Tovar, Shawn Wayans, and Diana Karenne. After him are Arnoldo Foà, Cris Morena, Mark Rydell, Alvaro Vitali, Julie Dreyfus, and Néstor Carbonell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Joel Edgerton ranks 119Before him are Lin Chi-ling, Charlotte Perrelli, Haya bint Hussein, Bassem Youssef, Flávio Conceição, and Cyril Raffaelli. After him are Tiffani Thiessen, Jenna Fischer, David Dencik, Naseem Hamed, Steve Nash, and Maurice Greene.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Joel Edgerton ranks 192 out of 1,143Before him are Alex O'Loughlin (1976), Percy Grainger (1882), Barry Humphries (1934), Mervyn Rose (1930), Malcolm Fraser (1930), and Wayne Gardner (1959). After him are Keith Michell (1926), Ruby Rose (1986), Malcolm Turnbull (1954), Rick Springfield (1949), Nancye Wynne Bolton (1916), and William McMahon (1908).

Among ACTORS In Australia

Among actors born in Australia, Joel Edgerton ranks 45Before him are Anna Torv (1979), Portia de Rossi (1973), Abbie Cornish (1982), Rose Byrne (1979), Alex O'Loughlin (1976), and Barry Humphries (1934). After him are Keith Michell (1926), Ruby Rose (1986), Phoebe Tonkin (1989), Emilie de Ravin (1981), Mia Wasikowska (1989), and Deborra-Lee Furness (1955).