About Edi Gathegi
Edi Mūe Gathegi (; 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). Gathegi's first professional role was the Haitian Cabbie in the 2006 film, Crank. When Gathegi first auditioned for the 2008 film, adapted from the same-titled first book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, he had not heard of the series and was not aware that his character was a vampire. Drama Desk Awards 2018: Won along with Sean Carvajal for last-minute entrances into the Signature Theatre Company production of Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train, ensuring it had a happy real-life ending after replacing Reg E.
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