Joe Bird
Birthdate: Apr 8, 2007
Birthplace: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom
Joe Bird (birthname: Joseph Bird) is a British-born Australian actor who made his feature debut in Australian director/writer Luke Shanahan’s folk horror movie, Rabbit (2017), co-starring Adelaide Clemens, Alex Russell, and Veerle Baetens, produced by David Ngo, and which premiered at the Melbourne Film Festival before a release by Vendetta Films.
Bird made his breakthrough as co-star of Australian director brothers Danny and Michael Philippou’s acclaimed and highly profitable supernatural horror movie, Talk to Me (2022), co-written by Danny and Bill Hinzman, based on a concept by Daley Pearson, with Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen and Miranda Otto, debuting internationally at the Sundance Film Festival and grossing a phenomenal (based on estimated costs) $92 million return for distributors A24 (U.S.) and Maslow Entertainment/Umbrella Entertainment/Ahi Films (Australia-New Zealand).
Bird co-starred in the Australian Western sequel, Wolfram (2025), with Deborah Mailman, Pedrea Jackson, and Thomas M. Wright under Warwick Thornton’s direction, and which made its international premiere in competition at the Berlin Film Festival and was released by Bonsai Films (Australia). Bird earned considerable acclaim starring in debuting director/writer Adrian Chiarella’s Australian supernatural horror movie about gay conversion therapy, Leviticus (2026), starring Stacy Clausen, Mia Wasikowska, Ewen Leslie, and Nicholas Hope, produced by Causeway Films, and which premiered to strong reviews at the Sundance Film Festival and was released widely by Neon.
Joe Bird co-starred in director/writer/co-star Nick Annas’s thriller, Crashout (date to be announced), co-starring Catherine Laga’aia and Evelyn Sims, produced by Enzo Tedeschi, Helen Tuck, and Denai Gracie under the joint banner of Deadhouse Films/WeirAnderson Films/Atypical Originals, and released by Umbrella Entertainment.
Personal life
Joe Bird was born in Liverpool, England, and raised in Liverpool, and as a toddler, moved with his parents to Adelaide, South Australia. Bird lives in Adelaide, Australia. Bird’s height is 5’ 8”.
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Joe Bird Movies
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- 2023 |
Talk to Me
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When a group of friends discover how to conjure spirits using an embalmed hand, they become hooked on the new thrill, until one of them goes too far and unleashes terrifying supernatural forces.
- 2017 | Rabbitas Aiden
Facts About Joe Bird
Character empathy: Joe Bird has discussed that his main character, a young gay man faced with conversion therapy, in Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus, holds on to a sense of guilt toward himself. And the way it manifests in him is quite different from how it manifests in me. But…definitely a feeling that I’d felt personally before…where does that come from, what does that mean? So (this is about) carrying around a feeling of guilt.”
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