Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1977-03-25 (Age: 49)
Place of Birth
San Cristobal, Venezuela
Edgar Ramírez
Biography
Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈeðɣaɾ raˈmiɾes], born 25 March 1977) is a Venezuelan actor. After studying communications at the Andrés Bello Catholic University, Ramírez worked in media and considered becoming a diplomat. When filmmaker Guillermo Arriaga praised a short film he had done, he decided to pursue his performing hobby as a career. Ramírez played a CIA assassin in the action-thriller film The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). His portrayal of Carlos the Jackal in the 2010 biopic television miniseries Carlos won him the César Award for Most Promising Actor and nominations for a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Actor. He then played a CIA operative in Zero Dark Thirty (2012), and boxer Roberto Durán in the biographical sports film Hands of Stone (2016). Ramírez received several accolades for his portrayal of Gianni Versace in the 2018 miniseries The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. In 2020, he had a recurring role in the HBO miniseries The Undoing. In 2022, Ramírez was part of the Un Certain Regard jury at the Cannes Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edgar Ramírez, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (40)
Next Life
2026
It Would Be Night in Caracas
2025
Arenas
2025
Making Emilia Pérez
2025
Emilia Pérez
2024
Borderlands
2024
The 355
2022
Jungle Cruise
2021
YES DAY
2021
The Last Days of American Crime
2020
Resistance
2020
Wasp Network
2020
Free Color
2020
The Quietude
2018
