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Also known as Edi Mue Gathegi

Kenyan-American actor

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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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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).

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