Name	Joel Courtney
Height
Naionality	American
Date of Birth	31-January-1996
Place of Birth	Monterey, California
Famous for	Acting

Joel Courtney is an American actor. Courtney is best known for his role of Joseph "Joe" Lamb in the 2011 J. J. Abrams film Super 8, for which he received critical acclaim and a Saturn Award. Alongside Jake T. Austin, Courtney will be portraying Tom Sawyer in Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn, an adaptation of Mark Twain's classic, written and directed by Jo Kastner. Kastner and Marcus Weinhart produced the film, which was shot in August 2011 in Bulgaria. Alongside Isabelle Fuhrman, Courtney completed filming the supernatural thriller The Between. In the film, the young actor plays a disgruntled teen who joins his father on a camping trip only to have a run-in with otherworldly forces. Filming was shot from September to October 2011 in North Carolina.

In the Spring of 2012, he filmed a Fox TV movie entitled "Rogue," which was directed by Brett Ratner. On July 26, 2012, he won a Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Younger Actor. In November 2012, Joel was cast in the the Steven King movie "Mercy," produced by Blumhouse Productions and released by Universal Studios.