ABOUT EDI GATHEGI

Edi M?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 and as Laurent in the films Twilight, its sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon and Darwin in X-Men: First Class.

He also featured in the AMC series, Into Badlands, as Baron Jacobee. He's 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 2016–2017 season crime thriller, The Blacklist: Redemption.  

 

Born in Nairobi, Kenya Gathegi grew up in Albany, California. As an undeclared undergraduate at the University of California, Santa Barbara he was more interested in playing basketball and was good at it, until he injured his knee; this plunged him into depression, so he took up an acting class as an "easy course". This is how he discovered his love for acting.

Afterwards, 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