---
name: "The Edge"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/the-edge"
fi1m_id: "the-edge"
imdb_id: "nm0857253"
tmdb_id: 82426
wikidata_id: "Q714845"
roles: ["Songs"]
born: "8 August 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 71
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-01T22:28:11.413158+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."
---

# The Edge

## Identity

The Edge

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/the-edge
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** the-edge
- **IMDb ID:** nm0857253
- **TMDB ID:** 82426
- **Wikidata ID:** Q714845
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857253/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82426

Songs. Born 8 August 1961 in Barking, London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Songs
- **Born:** 8 August 1961, Barking, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1995–present
- **Also known as:** David Howell Evans, U2, Dave Evans, Edge
- **Academy Awards:** 2 Oscar nominations
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 80 (2), 2000s 74 (1), 2010s 58 (1), 2020s 63 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 71 to 66 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 3 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Action 2, Animation 2, Drama 2, History 2, Adventure 1, Comedy 1
- **Screen time:** 11 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $992m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Edge, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q714845, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0857253/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/82426

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom*](https://film.one/film/mandela-long-walk-to-freedom.md) (58)

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## Biography

David Howell Evans, known professionally as The Edge, is a musician and songwriter born on 8 August 1961 in Barking, Essex, England. He is best known as the lead guitarist, keyboardist and backing vocalist of the rock band U2.

The Edge has contributed to film music, co-writing the theme song for *GoldenEye* (1995) with Bono, performed by Tina Turner. He has also appeared in documentaries and other productions, including *It Might Get Loud* (2008) and episodes of *The Simpsons* (1989).

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

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Sing 2* (2021), Fi1m 63, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/sing-2.md)
- *Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom* (2013), Fi1m 58, Music, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/mandela-long-walk-to-freedom.md)
- *Gangs of New York* (2002), Fi1m 74, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/gangs-of-new-york.md)
- *Ghost in the Shell* (1995), Fi1m 83, Songs — [page](https://film.one/film/ghost-in-the-shell.md)
- *GoldenEye* (1995), Fi1m 78, Music, Original Music Composer — [page](https://film.one/film/goldeneye.md)

## Complete filmography (27)

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

- *Street of Dreams* (2026), as Music
- *From Hope to Home: The Obama Presidential Center* (2026), Actor
- *U2:UV Live from Vegas, 2023/11/03* (2023), Actor
- *Bono: Waiting on a Saviour* (2023), Actor
- *Women of the White Buffalo* (2022), Producer
- *Sing 2* (2021), as Songs — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/film/sing-2.md)
- *U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017* (2017), Actor
- *Sing Street* (2016), Thanks
- *U2: iNNOCENCE + eXPERIENCE Live in Paris - 06/12/2015* (2015), Actor
- *U2 - Vancouver, Canada* (2015), Actor
- *Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom* (2013), Music, Songs — Fi1m 58, [page](https://film.one/film/mandela-long-walk-to-freedom.md)
- *U2 – Live At Johannesburg Stadium, South Africa, 1998* (2011), as The Edge
- *Brothers* (2009), as Songs
- *Keep on Running: 50 Years of Island Records* (2009), Actor
- *Linear* (2009), Executive Producer, Original Music Composer
- *Off The Record* (2006), series, Actor
- *U2 Go Home: Live from Slane Castle, Ireland* (2003), Scenic Artist
- *Gangs of New York* (2002), as Songs — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/film/gangs-of-new-york.md)
- *U2: Elevation 2001 - Live from Boston* (2001), Music
- *Entropy* (1999), as The Edge
- *U2: A Year in Pop* (1997), Music
- *TFI Friday* (1996), series, Actor
- *Ghost in the Shell* (1995), as Songs — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/film/ghost-in-the-shell.md)
- *GoldenEye* (1995), Original Music Composer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/goldeneye.md)
- *U2: Lovetown* (1989), Music
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as The Edge (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *U2: Rattle and Hum* (1988), Music

## Gallery

- ![The Edge](https://film.one/media/person/86426/gallery-f17698c4ab32.jpg) The Edge — Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2f/MKr381361_The_Edge_%28Cannes_2025%29.jpg/1280px-MKr381361_The_Edge_%28Cannes_2025%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![An image of Bono and The Edge of U2, taken at a U2 360 concert in Toronto at the Rogers Centre (2009)](https://film.one/media/person/86426/gallery-3d427cfc3093.jpg) An image of Bono and The Edge of U2, taken at a U2 360 concert in Toronto at the Rogers Centre (2009) — MelicansMatkin, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Bono-Edge-Toronto-U2360.jpg/1280px-Bono-Edge-Toronto-U2360.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bono and The Edge of U2 at Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA 9/21/2009 (2008)](https://film.one/media/person/86426/gallery-8bbf4cd1cc68.jpg) Bono and The Edge of U2 at Gillette Stadium, Foxboro, MA 9/21/2009 (2008) — xrayspx, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Bono_Edge_Foxboro_09212009_U2360.jpg/1280px-Bono_Edge_Foxboro_09212009_U2360.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Bono and The Edge perform with U2 on the Vertigo Tour in Auckland (2006)](https://film.one/media/person/86426/gallery-95073bfb27d0.jpg) Bono and The Edge perform with U2 on the Vertigo Tour in Auckland (2006) — Mikey Bain, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Bono_and_Edge_in_Auckland.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Steve Censky, blue coat, welcomes U2 guitarist and Angiogenesis Foundation board member The Edge, black cap, and](https://film.one/media/person/86426/gallery-6291fa56a29a.jpg) U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Steve Censky, blue coat, welcomes U2 guitarist and Angiogenesis Foundation board member The Edge, black cap, and — USDAgov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Deputy_Secretary_Censky_and_The_Edge_%2820180619-OSEC-LSC-0009%29.jpg/1280px-Deputy_Secretary_Censky_and_The_Edge_%2820180619-OSEC-LSC-0009%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Steve Censky, blue coat, welcomes U2 guitarist and Angiogenesis Foundation board member The Edge, black cap, and](https://film.one/media/person/86426/gallery-7cd15a4ff47b.jpg) U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Steve Censky, blue coat, welcomes U2 guitarist and Angiogenesis Foundation board member The Edge, black cap, and — USDAgov, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Deputy_Secretary_Censky_and_The_Edge_%2820180619-OSEC-LSC-0032%29.jpg/1280px-Deputy_Secretary_Censky_and_The_Edge_%2820180619-OSEC-LSC-0032%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 2 nominated

- 2014: Best Original Song (nominated), for *Ordinary Love*
- 2003: Best Original Song (nominated), for *The Hands That Built America*

### Other awards — 1 won

- Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class 2022: Order of Merit (Ukraine), 3rd class (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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