Nash Edgerton

Nash Edgerton (born 19 January 1973) is an Australian film director, stuntman and actor, and a principal member of the movie-making collective Blue-Tongue Films.

Edgerton was born in Blacktown, New South Wales and grew up in Dural (both suburbs of Sydney).

He is the son of Marianne (van Dort), a homemaker, and Michael Edgerton, a solicitor/property developer.

His younger brother is actor Joel Edgerton.

His mother is a Dutch immigrant who was born in The Hague.

As a stuntman, he has worked on such films as The Matrix trilogy, The Thin Red Line, Superman Returns, and, most notably, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, as the stunt double for Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi.

His brother Joel appeared in those same films as young Owen Lars.

Throughout Edgerton's career, he has made critically well-received short films often starring himself, such as Spider and Bear. He has also directed a total of four music videos for artist Bob Dylan ("Beyond Here Lies Nothin'", "Must Be Santa", "Duquesne Whistle", and "The Night We Called It a Day").

They commenced in 1987.

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The series is adapted from Ryan's 2005 film The Magician, which Edgerton helped Ryan expand from a short film.

Edgerton's stepdaughter Chika Yasumura appears in the series as the daughter of Ryan's character.

His feature-length directorial debut was The Square (2008), an Australian neo-noir thriller.

Edgerton began dating Carla Ruffino in 2011 and they married on 1 April 2014.

He is stepfather to her daughter from a previous marriage, Chika Yasumura.

They have one daughter together, born in 2015.

The ARIA Music Awards is an annual awards ceremony that recognises excellence, innovation, and achievement across all genres of Australian music.

His most recent film as director was Gringo, released in 2018.

From 2018 to 2021, Edgerton directed every episode of Mr Inbetween, an Australian television black comedy-drama series starring and written by Scott Ryan.