Edi MÅ«e Gathegi (born March 10, 1979) is a Kenyan-American actor. He
appeared as recurring character Dr. Jeffrey Cole (aka "Big Love") in
the television series House, as Cheese in the 2007 film Gone Baby
Gone, as Laurent in the films Twilight and its sequel The Twilight
Saga: New Moon, and as Darwin in X-Men: First Class. He also featured
in the AMC series, Into the Badlands, as Baron Jacobee. He has also
been a recurring character in NBC's television series, The Blacklist
as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization. Gathegi
reprised the role in the 2016â€"2017 season crime thriller, The
Blacklist: Redemption.Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Gathegi grew up in
Albany, California, U.S. Gathegi attended the University of
California, Santa Barbara, where he played basketball until a knee
injury ended his career. Gathegi then began taking acting classes. He
then studied at New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the
Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2005. Gathegi's career began
in theatre, and his stage credits include Two Trains Running at the
Old Globe Theatre, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Othello, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, and Cyrano de Bergerac, among others.Gathegi's first
professional role was the Haitian Cabbie in the 2006 film Crank.
Though he had originally auditioned for the role of Kaylo, the
producers gave the role to Efren Ramirez and instead offered Gathegi
an appearance as the Haitian Cabbie. He was skeptical at first about
performing a Haitian accent, but was coached by a Haitian friend. In
2007, after guest-starring on Lincoln Heights and Veronica Mars,
Gathegi went on to star as Bodie in Death Sentence, Darudi in The
Fifth Patient and Cheese in Gone Baby Gone. He later had a recurring
role as Mormon intern Dr. Jeffrey Cole on the television medical drama
House, his character was often mocked for his religious beliefs by Dr.
House, who himself is an atheist. He also guest-starred on CSI: Miami,
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Life on Mars in 2008 before being
cast as Laurent in Twilight. 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. He now has read the whole
series and calls himself a hardcore fan. He portrays Eddie Willers in
Atlas Shrugged (2011), based on Ayn Rand's novel of the same name. He
later portrayed another Haitian character, Jean Baptiste, in the fifth
season of Justified, but was unhappy with the role and asked to be
written off the show. He also portrays the character Ronald Dacey on
StartUp.Gathegi married Romanian Adriana Marinescu in 2018.
appeared as recurring character Dr. Jeffrey Cole (aka "Big Love") in
the television series House, as Cheese in the 2007 film Gone Baby
Gone, as Laurent in the films Twilight and its sequel The Twilight
Saga: New Moon, and as Darwin in X-Men: First Class. He also featured
in the AMC series, Into the Badlands, as Baron Jacobee. He has also
been a recurring character in NBC's television series, The Blacklist
as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization. Gathegi
reprised the role in the 2016â€"2017 season crime thriller, The
Blacklist: Redemption.Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Gathegi grew up in
Albany, California, U.S. Gathegi attended the University of
California, Santa Barbara, where he played basketball until a knee
injury ended his career. Gathegi then began taking acting classes. He
then studied at New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the
Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2005. Gathegi's career began
in theatre, and his stage credits include Two Trains Running at the
Old Globe Theatre, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Othello, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, and Cyrano de Bergerac, among others.Gathegi's first
professional role was the Haitian Cabbie in the 2006 film Crank.
Though he had originally auditioned for the role of Kaylo, the
producers gave the role to Efren Ramirez and instead offered Gathegi
an appearance as the Haitian Cabbie. He was skeptical at first about
performing a Haitian accent, but was coached by a Haitian friend. In
2007, after guest-starring on Lincoln Heights and Veronica Mars,
Gathegi went on to star as Bodie in Death Sentence, Darudi in The
Fifth Patient and Cheese in Gone Baby Gone. He later had a recurring
role as Mormon intern Dr. Jeffrey Cole on the television medical drama
House, his character was often mocked for his religious beliefs by Dr.
House, who himself is an atheist. He also guest-starred on CSI: Miami,
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Life on Mars in 2008 before being
cast as Laurent in Twilight. 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. He now has read the whole
series and calls himself a hardcore fan. He portrays Eddie Willers in
Atlas Shrugged (2011), based on Ayn Rand's novel of the same name. He
later portrayed another Haitian character, Jean Baptiste, in the fifth
season of Justified, but was unhappy with the role and asked to be
written off the show. He also portrays the character Ronald Dacey on
StartUp.Gathegi married Romanian Adriana Marinescu in 2018.
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