--- name: "Edi Gathegi" canonical: "https://film.one/person/edi-gathegi" fi1m_id: "edi-gathegi" imdb_id: "nm1346230" tmdb_id: 39391 wikidata_id: "Q324647" roles: ["Actor"] born: "10 March 1979" reviewed_on_fi1m: 5 average_fi1m_score: 66 average_as: "actor" average_over: 5 updated: "2026-10-05T12:09:58.796176+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Edi Gathegi ## Identity Edi Gathegi - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/edi-gathegi - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** edi-gathegi - **IMDb ID:** nm1346230 - **TMDB ID:** 39391 - **Wikidata ID:** Q324647 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edi_Gathegi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324647, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1346230/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39391 Actor. Born 10 March 1979 in Nairobi, Kenya. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 10 March 1979, Nairobi, Kenya - **Active:** 2007–present - **Also known as:** Edi Mue Gathegi , Edi Mūe Gathegi - **Average Fi1m score:** 66, as actor, over 5 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 66 (3), 2010s 66 (1), 2020s 66 (1) - **Fi1m against the critics:** 66 to 61 across 5 titles - **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 4 at 60–79, 1 under 60 - **Lead roles:** 0 of 3 acting credits billed first or second - **Genres:** Drama 4, Adventure 2, Fantasy 2, Romance 2, Action 1, Crime 1 - **Screen time:** 8 hours of reviewed films - **Box office:** $1,757m across 4 films with figures - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edi_Gathegi, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q324647, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1346230/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/39391 ## Coming up - *Man of Tomorrow* (2027-07-07), as Mr. Terrific ## Streaming the US now - **Hulu:** [*Gone Baby Gone*](https://film.one/film/gone-baby-gone.md) (79) - **HBO Max:** [*Superman*](https://film.one/film/superman.md) (66) - **Apple TV:** [*For All Mankind*](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md) (66) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Edi Gathegi > Edi Gathegi makes capable people entertaining through deadpan humour and quiet authority. We like him most when he has a job to get on with; *Superman* benefits from his presence even as it becomes crowded and noisy. In *Superman* (2025), Edi Gathegi's Mr Terrific gets on with things while the film keeps finding somebody else to introduce. His deadpan manner makes competence entertaining, which is useful in a supporting cast where several characters have little beyond a costume or a running joke. We were relieved to spend time with him because the surrounding bustle was wearing us down. James Gunn gives him the most to do among the other heroes. Gathegi earns the attention without making a fuss about it. The same businesslike quality has a less reassuring use in *Gone Baby Gone* (2007), where he plays Cheese, a drug lord. Gathegi can make criminal menace feel like a matter of professional routine, keeping a character watchable without asking us to like him. Casey Affleck and Amy Ryan carry Ben Affleck's film through some increasingly contrived plotting, but Cheese shows an early use for Gathegi's controlled detachment. His franchise work then included Laurent in *Twilight* (2008) and Darwin in *X-Men: First Class* (2011). Those early roles did not always give him much room to develop a character. Television became a substantial part of the work, with Ronald Dacey in *StartUp* (2016–2018), then Dev Ayesa in *For All Mankind* from 2022. That is a career worth looking at beyond the supporting roles in large film ensembles. What Gunn gets right is to give the intelligence Gathegi projects something to do. Mr Terrific earns his share of *Superman*, although the film still adds enough characters and crises to make its last act mostly noise. The caution is that competence can become the only thing a part asks of him; we would welcome writing that makes more demands on that calm authority. He need not be confined to being the useful man in somebody else's story. Try *Superman* for his dry humour, if you have patience for a superhero film that keeps adding people. ## Biography Edi Mūe Gathegi is a Kenyan-American actor. Born on 10 March 1979 in Nairobi, Kenya, he grew up in Albany, California. He studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he began acting after a knee injury ended his basketball career, and later earned an MFA from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2005. His early work was in theatre. Gathegi’s screen breakthrough came with the role of Dr. Jeffrey Cole on the television series *House* (2007). He appeared as Cheese in *Gone Baby Gone* (2007), Laurent in *Twilight* (2008) and *The Twilight Saga: New Moon* (2009), and Darwin in *X-Men: First Class* (2011). Other credits include Matias Solomon on *The Blacklist* (2013–2017) and its spin-off *The Blacklist: Redemption*, Dev Ayesa on *For All Mankind* (2022–), and Mister Terrific in *Superman* (2025). He is married to Adriana Marinescu. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (5) - *Superman* (2025), Fi1m 66, as Mr. Terrific — [page](https://film.one/film/superman.md) - *For All Mankind* (2019), Fi1m 66, as Dev Ayesa — [page](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md) - *The Twilight Saga: New Moon* (2009), Fi1m 48, as Laurent — [page](https://film.one/film/the-twilight-saga-new-moon.md) - *Twilight* (2008), Fi1m 70, as Laurent — [page](https://film.one/film/twilight.md) - *Gone Baby Gone* (2007), Fi1m 79, as Cheese — [page](https://film.one/film/gone-baby-gone.md) ## Complete filmography (49) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Man of Tomorrow* (2027), as Mr. Terrific - *Superman* (2025), as Mr. Terrific — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/superman.md) - *Reunited* (2024), as Matthew McConnell - *Aporia* (2023), as Mal - *Mendo's Carousel* (2023), as Arthur · Executive Producer - *The Guardians of Justice* (2022), series, as Mr. Smiles - *The Harder They Fall* (2021), as Bill Pickett - *Caged* (2021), as Harlow Reid · Executive Producer - *Princess of the Row* (2020), as Beaumont 'Bo' Willis · Producer - *The Last Thing He Wanted* (2020), as Jones - *Briarpatch* (2020), series, as A.D. Singe - *For All Mankind* (2019), series, as Dev Ayesa — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/for-all-mankind-2019.md) - *Pimp* (2018), as Kenny Wayne - *Better Start Running* (2018), as Fitz Paradise - *The Blacklist: Redemption* (2017), series, as Matias Solomon - *The Watcher* (2016), as Noah · Co-Producer - *StartUp* (2016), series, as Ronald "Ronnie" Dacey · Producer - *Criminal Activities* (2015), as Marques - *This Isn't Funny* (2015), as Ryan - *Aloha* (2015), as Lt. Colonel Curtis - *Bleeding Heart* (2015), as Dex - *Bedbug* (2014), as Frank - *The Blacklist* (2013), series, as Matias Solomon — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-blacklist.md) - *Family Tools* (2013), series, as Darren Bichette - *Red Widow* (2013), series, Actor - *Wild Card* (2013), as Tres - *X-Men: First Class* (2011), as Darwin / Armando Muñoz - *Atlas Shrugged: Part I* (2011), as Eddie Willers - *This Is Not a Movie* (2011), as Ghost of Jimmy - *Nikita* (2010), series, Actor - *Justified* (2010), series, as Jean Baptiste — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/tv/justified.md) - *Page 36* (2010), as Mr. Black - *The Twilight Saga: New Moon* (2009), as Laurent — Fi1m 48, [page](https://film.one/film/the-twilight-saga-new-moon.md) - *My Bloody Valentine* (2009), as Deputy Martin - *Operating Instructions* (2009), as Charlie Cole - *Twilight* (2008), as Laurent — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/twilight.md) - *Life on Mars* (2008), series, as Fletcher Bellow - *The Fifth Patient* (2007), as Darudi - *Gone Baby Gone* (2007), as Cheese — Fi1m 79, [page](https://film.one/film/gone-baby-gone.md) - *Death Sentence* (2007), as Bodie - *Phineas and Ferb* (2007), series, as Iggy (voice) — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/phineas-and-ferb.md) - *Lincoln Heights* (2007), series, Actor - *Crank* (2006), as Haitian Cabbie - *American Dad!* (2005), series, as Bridge Officer (voice) - *House* (2004), series, as Jeffrey Cole — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/house-2004.md) - *Veronica Mars* (2004), series, as Zeke Molinda — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/veronica-mars.md) - *CSI: Miami* (2002), series, as Freddie Mays - *Legacy*, as Remi - *Women in Film*, Actor ## Gallery - ![Edi Gathegi](https://film.one/media/person/8256/gallery-afad14412733.jpg) Edi Gathegi — Fashion photographer Anthony Citrano from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Edi_Gathegi_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![LOS ANGELES - JANUARY 29, 2009: Actor Edi Gathegi arriving at the premiere of "Push", Mann Theater, Westwood.](https://film.one/media/person/8256/gallery-1f59aa60cf3d.jpg) LOS ANGELES - JANUARY 29, 2009: Actor Edi Gathegi arriving at the premiere of "Push", Mann Theater, Westwood. — Fashion photographer Anthony Citrano from Los Angeles, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Edi_Gathegi.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Edi Gathegi](https://film.one/media/person/8256/gallery-11de0d425e8e.jpg) Edi Gathegi — Image via TMDB - ![Edi Gathegi](https://film.one/media/person/8256/gallery-d2d63ffc40ce.jpg) Edi Gathegi — Image via TMDB - ![Edi Gathegi](https://film.one/media/person/8256/gallery-7548137d5c5f.jpg) Edi Gathegi — Image via TMDB - ![Edi Gathegi](https://film.one/media/person/8256/gallery-eb0b632e4f77.jpg) Edi Gathegi — Image via TMDB - ![Edi Gathegi](https://film.one/media/person/8256/gallery-ac4f57af4e61.jpg) Edi Gathegi — Image via TMDB - ![Edi Gathegi](https://film.one/media/person/8256/gallery-10321c80c0c2.jpg) Edi Gathegi — Image via TMDB --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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