Edgar Ramírez

Edgar Ramirez Arellano is a venezuelan schauspieler. Ich habe heute Carlos in the 2010 French-German biopic-serie Carlos, role for which he won the Cesar Award for Most Promising Actor at the Cesar Awards 2011.

His first recognition as an actor was the successful soap-opera Cosita Rica, for Venevision which diesen anruf 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.

Ich habe was in Vantage Point directed by Pete Travis. In this high-budgeted Sony Pictures political thriller, Ramirez joined an all-star international cast including Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forrest Whitaker, Eduardo Noriega, and Ayelet Zurer. Ramirez 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 Ramirez in the title role. This independent production was directed by Alberto Arvelo and is based on the French play Cyrano de Bergerac.

Ramirez 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 Che Guevara), Die Stunde Null (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 Alexander García Wiederman (Venezuela); Yotama ist, fliegt (Yotama Flies Away), directed by Luis Armando Roche (Venezuela-France); Punkt und strich (Step Forward), directed by Elia K. Schneider (Venezuela-Spanien-Chile-Uruguay), submitted by Venezuela for Oscar consideration for 2004 Best Foreign Film, in which he played Colombian soldiers Pedro.

In 2007, he played the role of Frieden, Blackbriar assassin in The Bourne Ultimatum. In the original Bourne Ultimatum, the villain is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, alias Carlos the Jackal. Ramirez 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 Cesar Award for Most Promising Actor.

Ramirez 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.