Edgar Ramírez
- a.k.a. Edgar Ramirez
- Édgar Ramírez
- Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano
- Едґар Рамірес
- אדגר רמירז
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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.
German (Deutsch)
Édgar Ramírez (* 25. März 1977 in San Cristóbal) ist ein venezolanischer Schauspieler. Édgar Ramírez begann 1993 seine Schauspiellaufbahn mit einer kleinen Rolle im Film ¡Aquí espaantan! Danach spielte er in verschiedenen venezolanischen Filmen und Fernsehserien. 2004 agierte Ramírez im mehrfach ausgezeichneten Film Punto y raya. 2005 erschien er neben Keira Knightley und Mickey Rourke in Domino. Im Actionfilm Das Bourne Ultimatum verkörperte Ramírez 2007 den Auftragskiller Paz, der die Hauptfigur Jason Bourne (verkörpert durch Matt Damon) töten soll. Édgar Ramírez spielte 2008 im Film 8 Blickwinkel den Terroristen Javier, der den Präsidenten der Vereinigten Staaten in Gefangenschaft genommen hat. Den internationalen Durchbruch verschaffte Ramírez 2010 die Titelrolle in Olivier Assayas’ Fernsehmehrteiler Carlos – Der Schakal, der in Deutschland auch in den Kinoverleih kam. Seine Darstellung des Terroristen Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, genannt Carlos, brachte ihm unter anderem einen César und Nominierungen für den Golden Globe Award, London Critics’ Circle Film Award, Screen Actors Guild Award ein. Im 2020 erschienenen Film The last days of American Crime porträtiert er in der Hauptrolle Graham Bricke.
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- male
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- Place of Birth
- San Cristobal, Venezuela
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Cast
| Character | Movie / TV Show | Genres | Release | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larry from Ground Branch | Zero Dark Thirty | 70% · 4,463 | ||
| Ares | Wrath of the Titans | 57% · 4,158 | ||
| Javier | Vantage Point | 64% · 1,988 | ||
| Paz | The Bourne Ultimatum | 74% · 7,599 |