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Edgar Ramírez

Edgar Ramírez

Birthday: 1977-03-25 | Place of Birth: San Cristobal, Venezuela

Edgar Ramírez Arellano is a Venezuelan actor. He played Carlos in the 2010 French-German biopic series Carlos, a role for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor. His first recognition as an actor was the successful soap opera Cosita Rica, for Venevisión which aired in September 2003 to August 2004 lasting 270 episodes. In 2005, he made his major motion picture début playing Choco, Domino Harvey's love interest in the film Domino directed by Tony Scott. He was in Vantage Point directed by Pete Travis. In this high-budgeted Sony Pictures political thriller, Ramírez joined an all-star international cast including Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forrest Whitaker, Eduardo Noriega, and Ayelet Zurer. Ramírez plays Javier, an ex-special forces soldier forced to kidnap the American President in order to get his brother back. Upcoming is Cyrano Fernandez, with Ramírez in the title role. This independent production was directed by Alberto Arvelo and is based on the French play Cyrano de Bergerac. Ramírez has appeared in several other productions. Among those are the first part of the two film bundle Che by Steven Soderbergh, where he played the role of Ciro Redondo (a Cuban revolutionary who fought amongst Ché Guevara), La Hora Cero (The Magic Hour), a short film directed by Guillermo Arriaga, the acclaimed screenwriter of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel (Mexico); Plan B, directed by Alejandro García Wiederman (Venezuela); Yotama se va volando (Yotama Flies Away), directed by Luis Armando Roche (Venezuela-France); Punto y raya (Step Forward), directed by Elia K. Schneider (Venezuela-Spain-Chile-Uruguay), submitted by Venezuela for Oscar consideration for 2004 Best Foreign Film, in which he played Colombian soldier Pedro. In 2007, he played the role of Paz, a Blackbriar assassin, in The Bourne Ultimatum. In the original Bourne Ultimatum, the villain is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal. Ramírez went on to play the role of the actual Carlos in the 2010 French-German limited series Carlos. At the French César Awards 2011, he was awarded, for the film version of the TV series, the César Award for Most Promising Actor. Ramírez appeared in the Clash of the Titans (2010) sequel, Wrath of the Titans (2012), playing Ares, the God of War. Also in 2012, he played Larry in the Kathryn Bigelow film, Zero Dark Thirty.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The 355

as    Luis Rojas

2021
Yes Day

as    Carlos Torres

2021
Jungle Cruise

as    Lope de Aguirre

2020
The Last Days of American Crime

as    Graham Bricke

2020
The Undoing

as    Joe Mendoza

2020
Wasp Network

as    René

2018
Furlough

as    Kevin Rivera

2017
Bright

as    Kandomere

2016
The Girl on the Train

as    Dr. Kamal Abdic

2016
Gold

as    Michael Acosta

2016
Hands of Stone

as    Roberto Duran

2015
Point Break

as    Bodhi

2015
Joy

as    Tony Miranne

2014
Deliver Us from Evil

as    Mendoza

2013
The Counselor

as    Priest

2013
The Liberator

as    Simón Bolívar

2012
Wrath of the Titans

as    Ares

2012
Zero Dark Thirty

as    Larry from Ground Branch

2010
Carlos

as    Ilich Ramírez Sánchez ('Carlos')

2010
Carlos

as    Ilich Ramírez Sánchez („Carlos“)

2008
Vantage Point

as    Javier

2007
Cyrano Fernández

as    Cyrano Fernandez

2007
The Bourne Ultimatum

as    Paz

2006
El Don

as    Alvaro

2006
Elipsis

as    Sebastián Castillo

2005
Domino

as    Choco

2004
A Dot and a Line

as    Pedro