Edi Gathegi Biography

Edi Mue Gathegi is a Kenyan American actor who on the screen, appears as a recurring character in different movies and in Tv series.

Edi Gathegi Age

Edi Gathegi(is born March 10, 1979) is born in Nairobi, Kenya, acquiring dual citizenship since he is brought up in Albany, California. He has been active in media for 13 good years since the year 2006 up to date.

Edi Gathegi Family

His father is John N’ Gathegi and his mother’s name is not known. Both of the parents native is Kenyan.

Edi Gathegi Wife

Gathegi maintained a low profile on his relationship status despite all the public demand, albeit he is married to a Caucasian woman, Ariana.

Edi Gathegi Education

Gathegi went to the University of California and joined the University’s basketball team. He sure did love basketball but eventually came to dropping out due to an intense depression of sustaining a knee injury which led him quitting his favorite sport. After quitting school, he went on and took a Postgraduate course in the Tisch School of the Arts in New York University and graduated in 2005.

Edi Gathegi Acting

Gathegi decided taking up acting class as an alternative of a more easy course since he could no longer play basketball after his knee injury. This is where he discovers his love for acting for he would act in a unique way that only he would. He graduated and started his acting career in theatres. His stage credits included Two Trains Running at the Old Globe Theatre, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Othello, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Cyrano de Bergerac, among others.

His first professional role was the Haitian Cabble in the film Crank. Gathegi went on to star as Bodie in Death Sentence, Darudi in The Fifth Patient and Cheese in Gone Baby Gone. He had a recurring role as Mormon in the television medical drama, House and guest-starred on CSI: Miami, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Life on Mars in 2008.

Edi Gathegi Twilight

He was then cast as Laurent in the first book in Stephenie Meyer’s Twilight series. He had not heard of the series before so he was not aware of his vampire role. In Atlas Shrugged(2011), he renders Eddie Willers and later portrayed another Haitian character, Jean Baptiste, in the season of Justified. He was unhappy with the show and he asked to be written off the show. He also portrays the character, Ronald Dacey on StartUp.

Edi Gathegi Blacklist

Gathegi has also been a recurring character in NBC’s television series, The Blacklist as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization. Gathegi reprised the role in the 2016–2017 season crime thriller, The Blacklist: Redemption.

Edi Gathegi Height

He is 1.85 meters in height

Edi Gathegi Awards

Edi Gathegi Movies

• Pimp as Kenny Wayne
• Better Start Running as Fitz ParadiseBleeding Heart as Dex
• Criminal Activities as Marques
• Aloha as Cam Curtis
• This Isn’t Funny as Ryan
• X-Men First Class as Armando Munoz/Darwin
• Atlas Shrugged: Part 1 as Eddie Willers
• The Twilight Saga: New Moon as Laurent
• My Bloody Valentine 3-D as Deputy Martin
• Gone Baby Gone as Cheese
• Death Sentence as Bodie
• Blacklist

Edi Gathegi’s net-worth

Gathegi’s net worth is estimated to be $3 million through his acting career.