Edi Gathegi
Edi Mue Gathegi (born March 10, 1979 in Nairobi , Kenya ) is an American actor .
life and career
Edi Gathegi grew up in Albany , California . He attended the University of California, where he was a successful basketball player . After a knee injury, he had to end his sports career and discovered his love for acting. After he attended the "Tisch School of the Arts" in New York , he began his acting career in the theater. He played in the plays Othello , A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cyrano de Bergerac , among others .
Gathegi had his first role in front of the camera in 2006 as Haitian Cabbie in Crank . In 2007 he was seen in a guest role on the television series Veronica Mars and played the role of Bodie in Death Sentence . In the same year he was seen as Cheese in Gone Baby Gone .
He gained notoriety through a recurring role as Dr. Jeffrey Cole on the television series Dr. House and as the vampire Laurent in Twilight - Bite at Dawn (2008) and New Moon - Bite at Noon (2009). In the same year he played Deputy Martin in the horror film My Bloody Valentine 3D , followed in 2011 by the role of Darwin in the X-Men film X-Men: First Decision . From 2015 to 2016 he played the recurring role of henchman Matias Solomon in the US series The Blacklist , which he then embodied in its spin-off The Blacklist: Redemption .
Filmography (selection)
Movies
- 2006: Crank
- 2007: Death Sentence - death sentence (Death Sentence)
- 2007: The Fifth Patient
- 2007: Gone Baby Gone - No Child's Play (Gone Baby Gone)
- 2008: Twilight (Twilight)
- 2009: This Is Not a Movie
- 2009: My Bloody Valentine 3D
- 2009: New Moon - Bite at Noon Hour (New Moon)
- 2010: Page 36
- 2011: The Atlas Trilogy - Who is John Galt? (Atlas Shrugged: Part I)
- 2011: X-Men: First Decision (X-Men: First Class)
- 2015: Bleeding Heart
- 2015: Aloha - The Chance for Happiness (Aloha)
- 2020: The last thing he wanted (The Last Thing He Wanted)
Series
- 2007: Lincoln Heights (3 episodes)
- 2007: Veronica Mars (episode 3x18)
- 2007: Dr. House ( House , 7 episodes)
- 2008: CSI: Miami (episode 6x18)
- 2008: Life on Mars (episode 1x05)
- 2008: CSI: Vegas ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation , episode 9x05)
- 2011: Nikita (episode 1x19)
- 2013: Beauty and the Beast (3 episodes)
- 2014: Justified (4 episodes)
- 2014: Wild Card - One Night in Las Vegas ( Wild Card , episode 1x01)
- 2015: Proof (10 episodes)
- 2015: Into the Badlands (2 episodes)
- 2015–2016: The Blacklist (13 episodes)
- since 2016: StartUp
- 2017: The Blacklist: Redemption (8 episodes)
Web links
- Edi Gathegi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gathegi, Edi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gathegi, Edi Mue (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1979 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Nairobi , Kenya |