Nash Edgerton

Nash Edgerton
Edgerton at a Warrior premiere, 16 October 2011
Born	(1973-01-19) 19 January 1973 Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia
Occupation	Stuntman/Filmmaker
Years active	1991–present
Spouse(s)	Carla Ruffino

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

Life and career

Edgerton was born in Blacktown, New South Wales and grew up in Dural, New South Wales, the son of Marianne, a homemaker, and Michael Edgerton, a solicitor/property developer.^[1][2][3] His brother is actor Joel Edgerton.

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.^[4]

He has directed four music videos for Bob Dylan ("Beyond Here Lies Nothin'", "Must Be Santa", "Duquesne Whistle", and "The Night We Called It A Day").

Filmography

• Loaded (1996) (short) co-directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith
• Deadline (1997) (short)
• Bloodlock (1998) (short) co-directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith
• The Pitch (2001) (short)
• Fuel (2003) (short)
• Lucky (2005) (short)
• The IF Thing (2005) (short)
• Macbeth (2006 film)
• Superman Returns (2006) (stunts)
• Spider (2007) (short)
• The Square (2008)
• Crossfire (2010) (music video for Brandon Flowers song)
• Hesher (2010) (stunt coordinator)
• Knight and Day (2010) (stunts)
• Bear (2011) (short)
• I Am Number Four (2011) (stunts)
• Zero Dark Thirty (2012)
• The Wolverine (film) (2013) (stunts)
• The Bling Ring (2013) (stunt coordinator)
• The Great Gatsby (2013 film) (stunts)
• Son of a Gun (film) (2014)
• The Equalizer (film) (2014) (stunts)
• American Ultra (2015) (stunts)/(actor)
• 6 Miranda Drive (2015) (stunt coordinator)

References

External links

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