Edgar Ramírez
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.
Known For
Credits
- 2024 · Emilia Pérez as Gustavo Brun
- 2024 · Borderlands as Atlas
- 2023 · Florida Man as Mike Valentine
- 2022 · The 355 as Luis Rojas
- 2021 · Jungle Cruise as Lope de Aguirre
- 2021 · Dr. Death as Dr. Paolo Macchiarini
- 2021 · YES DAY as Carlos Torres
- 2020 · The Undoing as Joe Mendoza
- 2020 · The Last Days of American Crime as Graham Bricke
- 2020 · Resistance as Sigmund (Elsbeth's Father)
- 2020 · Wasp Network as René
- 2020 · Free Color as Self
- 2019 · The Kelly Clarkson Show as Self
- 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 · Chelsea as Self
- 2016 · Gold as Michael Acosta
- 2016 · American Crime Story as Gianni Versace
- 2015 · Joy as Tony Miranne
- 2015 · Point Break as Bodhi
- 2014 · Deliver Us from Evil as Mendoza
- 2014 · Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- 2014 · The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- 2013 · The Counselor as Priest
- 2013 · The Liberator as Simón Bolívar
- 2013 · Yotama se va volando as
- 2012 · Zero Dark Thirty as Larry from Ground Branch
- 2012 · An Open Heart as Javier
- 2012 · Wrath of the Titans as Ares
- 2011 · Greetings to the Devil as Ángel Sotavento
- 2010 · Carlos as Ilich Ramírez Sánchez ('Carlos')
- 2010 · Carlos as Ilich Ramírez Sánchez („Carlos“)
- 2008 · Che: Part One as Ciro Redondo García
- 2008 · Vantage Point as Javier
- 2007 · The Bourne Ultimatum as Paz
- 2006 · Elipsis as Sebastián Castillo
- 2006 · El Don as Alvaro
- 2005 · Domino as Choco
- Future · Minor Incidents as Alejandro "El Sapo" Amestoy
- 2007 · Cyrano Fernández as Cyrano Fernandez
- 2004 · A Dot and a Line as Pedro
- Future · Arenas as Francis
- Future · Untitled De Niro/Ramirez/Jakubowicz Project as J.M.
- Future · The Honest Liar as
- Future · Nobody’s Heart as Boscan
- 2006 · Plan B as
- 1993 · ¡Aquí espaantan! as Vendedor de Videos
- Future · Losing Clementine as
- Future · El Sombreròn as Ramón