---
name: "Joel Smallbone"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/joel-smallbone"
fi1m_id: "joel-smallbone"
imdb_id: "nm3522635"
tmdb_id: 1608418
wikidata_id: "Q28151611"
roles: ["Actor","Director"]
born: "5 June 1984"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T19:45:40.451701+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Joel Smallbone

## Identity

Joel Smallbone

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/joel-smallbone
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** joel-smallbone
- **IMDb ID:** nm3522635
- **TMDB ID:** 1608418
- **Wikidata ID:** Q28151611
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Smallbone, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28151611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3522635/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1608418

Actor and director. Born 5 June 1984 in Sydney, Australia.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor, Director
- **Born:** 5 June 1984, Sydney, Australia
- **Also known as:** Joel David Smallbone, for KING & COUNTRY, for KING + COUNTRY, for KING and COUNTRY, Joel & Luke, Austoville, Smallbone Brothers
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Smallbone, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q28151611, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3522635/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1608418

## Coming up

- *Drummer Boy* (2026-11-06), Jeremiah Clem

## Biography

Joel Smallbone is an Australian singer and actor. He is a member of the Christian pop duo For King & Country with his brother Luke Smallbone.

Smallbone has acted in several films. He played James Stevens in *Priceless* (2016), Antipater in *Journey to Bethlehem* (2023) and David Smallbone in *Unsung Hero* (2024), which he also co-directed. He portrays William Fairfax in *Young Washington* (2026) and Jeremiah Clem, whom he also directs, in *Drummer Boy* (2026).

Born in Sydney, he moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1991. He is married to singer Moriah Peters.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, deadline.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Young Washington* (2026), Fi1m 33, as William Fairfax — [page](https://film.one/film/young-washington.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Drummer Boy* (2026), as Jeremiah Clem · Director
- *Young Washington* (2026), as William Fairfax — Fi1m 33, [page](https://film.one/film/young-washington.md)
- *For King + Country: A Drummer Boy Christmas - Live* (2024), Director
- *Unsung Hero* (2024), as David Smallbone · Writer, Director, Executive Producer
- *Journey to Bethlehem* (2023), as General Antipater
- *Priceless* (2016), as James Stevens · Story, Editor
- *Sonshine* (2016), as for KING & COUNTRY
- *CHIC* (2015), as for KING & COUNTRY
- *Like a Country Song* (2014), as Jake Reeson
- *The Book of Esther* (2013), as Xerxes
- *A Music City Story*, Actor

## Gallery

- ![Joel Smallbone](https://film.one/media/person/1468849/gallery-a4442f57a80b.jpg) Joel Smallbone — Justin Higuchi, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ea/Joel_Smallbone_2016.jpg/1280px-Joel_Smallbone_2016.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![For KING AND COUNTRY performing at Big Church Day Out (South) at Wiston House, West Sussex, UK in May 2018.](https://film.one/media/person/1468849/gallery-c1ab0c670aa9.jpg) For KING AND COUNTRY performing at Big Church Day Out (South) at Wiston House, West Sussex, UK in May 2018. — Minnie Bannister, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/For_KING_AND_COUNTRY_2018.jpg/1280px-For_KING_AND_COUNTRY_2018.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![For King & Country performing live at Christian radio station 95.9 FM The Fish's Christmas Concert, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Friday, D (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/1468849/gallery-367c2feb8e93.jpg) For King & Country performing live at Christian radio station 95.9 FM The Fish's Christmas Concert, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Friday, D (2016) — Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3f/For_King_%26_Country_12_16_2016_-10_%2831621487070%29.jpg/1280px-For_King_%26_Country_12_16_2016_-10_%2831621487070%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![For King & Country performing live at Christian radio station 95.9 FM The Fish's Christmas Concert, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Friday, D (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/1468849/gallery-d0711deec7cd.jpg) For King & Country performing live at Christian radio station 95.9 FM The Fish's Christmas Concert, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Friday, D (2016) — Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/For_King_%26_Country_12_16_2016_-18_%2831621482270%29.jpg/1280px-For_King_%26_Country_12_16_2016_-18_%2831621482270%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![For King & Country performing live at Christian radio station 95.9 FM The Fish's Christmas Concert, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Friday, D (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/1468849/gallery-897b2bde363d.jpg) For King & Country performing live at Christian radio station 95.9 FM The Fish's Christmas Concert, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Friday, D (2016) — Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/42/For_King_%26_Country_12_16_2016_-19_%2831621481820%29.jpg/1280px-For_King_%26_Country_12_16_2016_-19_%2831621481820%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![For King & Country performing live at Christian radio station 95.9 FM The Fish's Christmas Concert, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Friday, D (2016)](https://film.one/media/person/1468849/gallery-1226bb4569ff.jpg) For King & Country performing live at Christian radio station 95.9 FM The Fish's Christmas Concert, at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, on Friday, D (2016) — Justin Higuchi from Los Angeles, CA, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3a/For_King_%26_Country_12_16_2016_-1_%2831878734011%29.jpg/1280px-For_King_%26_Country_12_16_2016_-1_%2831878734011%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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