Edi Gathegi
Edi Mue Gathegi ( born March 10, 1979 in Nairobi, Kenya ) is an American actor.
Life and career
Edi Gathegi grew up in Albany, California. He attended the University of California where he was a successful basketball player. After a knee injury he had to end his athletic career and discovered his love of acting. After he attended the " Tisch School of the Arts" in New York, he began his acting career in the theater. He has played in the plays Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Cyrano de Bergerac.
His first role in front of the camera had Gathegi 2006 as the Haitian Cabbie in Crank. In 2007 he was seen in a guest role on the television series Veronica Mars, playing the role of Bodie in Death Sentence - death sentence. In the same year he served as Cheese in Gone Baby Gone - to see no child's play.
He achieved fame by a recurring role as Dr. Jeffrey Cole on the television series House MD and as a vampire Laurent in Twilight - Bis (s ) on the morning (2008) and New Moon - Bis (s ) at noon ( 2009). In the same year he played the Deputy Martin in the horror film My Bloody Valentine 3D, 2011 followed by the role of Darwin in the X -Men spin-off X - Men: First Class.
Filmography (selection)
- 2006: Crank
- 2007: Death Sentence - sentence of death ( Death Sentence )
- 2007: The Fifth Patient
- 2007: Gone Baby Gone - No Child's Play ( Gone Baby Gone )
- 2008: Twilight - Bis ( s) at the crack of dawn ( Twilight )
- 2009: This Is Not a Movie
- 2009: My Bloody Valentine 3D
- 2009: New Moon - Bis (s ) at noon ( New Moon )
- 2010: Page 36
- 2011: The Atlas trilogy - Who is John Galt? (Atlas Shrugged: Part I)
- 2011: X - Men: First Class (X -Men: First Class )
- 2007: Lincoln Heights (3 episodes )
- 2007: Veronica Mars ( 1 episode)
- 2007: Dr. House ( House, 7 episodes)
- 2008: CSI: Miami ( 1 episode)
- 2008: Life on Mars (1 episode)
- 2008: CSI: Vegas ( CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, 1 episode)
- 2009: Operating Instructions ( TV movie )
- 2011: Nikita (1 episode)