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Nairobi, Kenya
Edi Mūe Gathegi (born March 10, 1979) is a Kenyan-American actor. He appeared as a recurring character, Dr. Jeffrey Cole (aka "Big Love"), in the television series House, as Cheese in the 2007 film Gone Baby Gone, as Laurent in the films Twilight and its sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and as Darwin in X-Men: First Class. Gathegi also featured in the AMC series Into the Badlands as Baron…
Known for
- Man of Tomorrow — Mr. Terrific2027
- Superman — Mr. Terrific2025
- Reunited — Matthew McConnell2024
- DC Studios Showcase: The Official Podcast — Self2024
- Aporia — Mal2023
- Mendo's Carousel — Arthur2023
- The Guardians of Justice — Mr. Smiles2022
- The Harder They Fall — Bill Pickett2021
- Caged — Harlow Reid2021
- The Last Thing He Wanted — Jones2020
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Key facts
- Born
- Edi Mūe Gathegi , ( 1979-03-10 ) March 10, 1979 (age 47) , Nairobi , Nairobi City County , Kenya
- Education
- University of California, Santa Barbara ( BA ) New York University ( MFA )
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 2006–present
- Spouse
- Adriana Marinescu ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2018 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edi
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Nairobi
- Occupation
- actor
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Edi Gathegi (cropped).jpg
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- name in native language
- Edi Gathegi
- Commons category
- Edi Gathegi
- date of birth
- 1979-03-10
- birth name
- Edi Mue Gathegi
- start of work period
- 2006-00-00
- writing language
- English language
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Encyclopedic overview
Edi Mūe Gathegi (/ˈɛdi ˈmweɪ ɡəˈθɛɡi/; born March 10, 1979) is a Kenyan 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).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Edi Gathegi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.