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Édgar Ramírez
Venezuelan actor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈeðɣaɾ raˈmiɾes], born March 25, 1977) is a Venezuelan actor and former journalist.[2] He was born in San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela.
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Born | Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano[1] (1977-03-25) 25 March 1977 (age 47)[1] San Cristóbal, Táchira, Venezuela[1] |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1990–present |
He played Carlos the Jackal in the 2010 French-German biopic series Carlos. He won the César Award for Most Promising Actor in 2011 for the role[3][4] and was nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy Award for best actor.[5]
He also played Larry, a CIA operative in the movie Zero Dark Thirty, Paz—a CIA assassin—in The Bourne Ultimatum, and Roberto Durán, a four-time world-champion boxer and member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame, in Hands of Stone.
Ramírez starred as Gianni Versace in the limited crime series The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story. He also starred as Bodhi in the 2015 movie Point Break.