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Edgar Ramírez
Actor, Producer
Born March 25, 1977 (47 years)
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.
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2024 | Emilia Pérez · as Gustavo Brun |
| 2024 | Borderlands · as Atlas |
| 2023 | Florida Man (TV Series) · as Mike Valentine |
| 2022 | Wolf Like Me (TV Series) · as Anton |
| 2022 | The 355 · as Luis Rojas |
| 2021 | Jungle Cruise · as Lope De Aguirre |
| 2021 | Dr. Death (TV Series) · as Dr. Paolo Macchiarini |
| 2021 | Yes Day · as Carlos Torres |
| 2020 | The Undoing (TV Series) · as Joe Mendoza |
| 2020 | The Last Days of American Crime · as Graham Bricke |
| 2020 | Resistance · as Sigmund (elsbeth's Father) |
| 2019 | Wasp Network · as René |
| 2018 | The Quietude · as Vincent |
| 2018 | Furlough · as Kevin Rivera |
| 2017 | Bright · as Kandomere |
| 2016 | The Girl on the Train · as Dr. Kamal Abdic |
| 2016 | Hands of Stone · as Roberto Duran |
| 2016 | |
| 2016 | American Crime Story (TV Series) · as Gianni Versace |
| 2015 | Joy · as Tony Miranne |
| 2015 | Point Break · as Bodhi |
| 2014 | Deliver Us from Evil · as Mendoza |
| 2013 | The Counselor · as Priest |
| 2013 | The Liberator · as Simón Bolívar |
| 2012 | Zero Dark Thirty · as Larry From Ground Branch |
| 2012 | An Open Heart · as Javier |
| 2012 | Wrath of the Titans · as Ares |
| 2011 | Saluda al diablo de mi parte · as Ángel Sotavento |
| 2010 | Carlos · as Ilich Ramírez Sánchez ('carlos') |
| 2010 | Carlos (TV Series) · as Ilich Ramírez Sánchez („carlos“) |
| 2008 | Che: Part One · as Ciro Redondo García |
| 2008 | Vantage Point · as Javier |
| 2007 | The Bourne Ultimatum · as Paz |
| 2007 | Cyrano Fernández · as Cyrano Fernandez |
| 2006 | Elipsis · as Sebastián Castillo |
| 2006 | El Don · as Alvaro |
| 2005 | Domino · as Choco |
| 2005 | Ser bonita no basta (TV Series) · as Leonardo |
| 2004 | A Dot and a Line · as Pedro |
| 2003 | Cosita Rica (TV Series) · as Cacique Chacón |
| 2003 | |
| 1990 | Cuando Llega El Amor (TV Series) · as Suave (1990) |