Edi Gathegi
Birthplace: Nairobi
Born: 1979-03-10
Occupations recorded in source
actor; director; film actor; film producer; stage actor; television actor
Biography from Wikipedia
Edi Mūe Gathegi (/ˈɛdi ˈmweɪ ɡəˈθɛɡi/; born March 10, 1979) is a Kenyan-American actor. He had his breakthrough playing Dr. Jeffrey "Big Love" Cole on the fourth season of the television series House (2007), followed by his roles as Cheese in the 2007 film Gone Baby Gone, vampire Laurent in the films Twilight and its sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and as Darwin in X-Men: First Class. He played covert operative Matias Solomon on The Blacklist, which he reprised for the spinoff series The Blacklist: Redemption.
Gathegi is also featured in the AMC series Into the Badlands as Baron Jacobee. He has also played a leading role in Startup, a television drama series on Crackle. Since 2022, Gathegi has played engineer and entrepreneur Dev Ayesa in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind, and played Mister Terrific in the DC Universe film Superman (2025).
Sources & attribution
Wikidata · revision
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Films in Cinema Hound
Acting
- Superman (2025) — Michael Holt / Mister Terrific
- Aporia (2023) — Malcolm Rice
- Caged (2021) — Dr. Harlow Reid
- The Last Thing He Wanted (2020) — Jones
- Princess of the Row (2019)
- Better Start Running (2018) — Fitz Paradise
- Pimp (2018) — Kenny Wayne
- The Watcher (2016) — Noah
- Aloha (2015) — Lt. Colonel Curtis
- Bleeding Heart (2015) — Dex
- Criminal Activities (2015) — Marques
- Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) — Edwin "Eddie" Willers
- Wild Card (2011) — Tres
- X-Men: First Class (2011) — Darwin / Armando Muñoz
- This Is Not a Movie (2010)
- My Bloody Valentine (2009) — Deputy Martin
- The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009) — Laurent
- Twilight (2008) — Laurent
- Death Sentence (2007) — Bodie
- Gone Baby Gone (2007) — Cheese
- Crank (2006) — Haitian Cabbie
Frequent collaborators
Shared films in this catalogue.
- Alexander Mendeluk · 2 films
- Anna Kendrick · 2 films
- Ashley Greene · 2 films
- Ben Affleck · 2 films
- Billy Burke · 2 films
- Bradley Cooper · 2 films
Catalogue credits: Wikidata and Open Media Database. Sources & licences.