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My Take
Joe Anderson is one of those English actors I always recognize before I can place the name. He keeps turning up in projects I have time for, Control, Across the Universe, Becoming Jane, and he has a quietly unsettling quality that made him a natural fit for Outsiders and a Twilight role. What strikes me is the range, jumping between intimate British drama and American genre television without ever seeming out of place. He even reunited with Neil Marshall on The Reckoning, which feels fitting. I'd call him a dependable character lead rather than a marquee star, and I mean that as a compliment.
Overview
Joe Anderson (born 26 March 1982) is an English actor best known for his work in Across the Universe, Becoming Jane, Control, The Ruins, The Crazies, Horns and as Alistair in The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2 (2012) and Asa Farrell in the WGN America drama series Outsiders. He also played Joseph in The Reckoning.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Joe Anderson
- Name (Japanese)
- ジョー・アンダーソン
- Reading
- じょー・あんだーそん
- Born
- March 26, 1982 (age 44)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Aries / Dog
- Origin
- England, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- actor / film actor / stage actor / television actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.