1. Edi Gathegi appeared as a recurring character - Dr Jeffrey Cole - in the television series House, as Cheese in the 2007 film Gone Baby Gone, Laurent in the films Twilight and its sequel The Twilight Saga: New Moon, and as Darwin in X-Men: First Class.
Edi Gathegi has been a recurring character in the NBC television series The Blacklist as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization.
Edi Gathegi has played a leading role in Startup, a television drama series on Crackle.
Since 2022, Edi Gathegi has played engineer and entrepreneur Dev Ayesa in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind.
Edi Gathegi is set to play the role of Mister Terrific in James Gunn's film Superman.
Edi Gathegi studied at New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2005.
Edi Gathegi was skeptical at first about performing a Haitian accent but was coached by a Haitian friend.
In 2007, after guest-starring on Lincoln Heights and Veronica Mars, Edi Gathegi went on to star as Bodie in Death Sentence, Darudi in The Fifth Patient, and Cheese in Gone Baby Gone.
Edi Gathegi later had a recurring role as Mormon intern Dr Jeffrey Cole in the television medical drama House.
Edi Gathegi's character was often mocked for his religious beliefs by Dr House, who himself is an atheist.
Edi Gathegi guest-starred in CSI: Miami, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Life on Mars in 2008 before being cast as Laurent in Twilight.
When Edi Gathegi first auditioned for the 2008 film, adapted from the same-titled first book in Stephenie Meyer's Twilight series, he had not heard of the series and was not aware that his character was a vampire.
Edi Gathegi now has read the whole series and calls himself a hardcore fan.
Edi Gathegi portrays Eddie Willers in Atlas Shrugged, based on Ayn Rand's novel of the same name.
Edi Gathegi later portrayed another Haitian character, Jean Baptiste, in the fifth season of Justified, but was unhappy with the role and asked to be written off the show.
Edi Gathegi has been a recurring character in NBC's television series, The Blacklist, as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization.
In July 2023, Edi Gathegi was cast as Mister Terrific in the DC Universe film Superman.