Édgar Ramírez Biography
Édgar Ramírez is a Venezuelan actor who is best known for playing Carlos the Jackal in the 2010 biopic series Carlos, a role for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor at the César Awards 2011.
Ramírez has also played Paz—a CIA assassin—in The Bourne Ultimatum, Larry, a CIA operative in the film Zero Dark Thirty, and boxer Roberto Durán in Hands of Stone. He had a recurring role in the HBO miniseries The Undoing in 2020.
Édgar Ramírez Education
Ramírez attended the Andrés Bello Catholic University where he studied communications and graduated in 1999. While in college he worked as an emerging journalist, reporting on politics.
Ramírez studied communications at the Andrés Bello Catholic University. He then worked in media and considered becoming a diplomat. When Guillermo Arriaga praised a short film he had done, he decided to pursue his performing hobby as a career.
Ramírez graduated in 1999 from the Andrés Bello Catholic University with a degree in mass communication, minoring in audiovisual communications, although he intended to pursue international relations.
Later, he became executive director of Dale al Voto, a Venezuelan foundation . He and his team created campaigns for radio, television and movie theaters. However, he was always attracted to the performing arts and while in college was involved with the arts. Ramírez was in charge of international promotions of the Viart Film Festival.Ill be lying if I told you I dreamed about becoming an actor as a kid. But I wasn’t indifferent to the world of performing arts.
I was always very attracted to it. I just never thought about it as a career.”[12] Ramírez passed it up, as he was in the middle of his thesis and was to attend Harvard National Model UN that year as a delegate from his school. Three years later Arriaga returned to Venezuela from the Cannes Film festival in France, where the film had won the Prize of the Critic’s Week. The film went on to also be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Ramírez then decided to pursue his acting interests.[13]
Édgar Ramírez Age
Ramírez was born Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellano, on March 25, 1977, San Cristobal, Venezuela. As of 2024 he is 47 years old. He celebrates his birthday on the 25th of March every year.
Édgar Ramírez Height
Ramírez stands at a height of 5 feet 10 inches (1.78 m) tall.
Édgar Ramírez Family
Ramírez is the son of Soday Arellano, an attorney, and Filiberto Ramírez, a military officer. He has one sister, Nataly, and a niece and nephew named Enrique and Maria Camilla. Most of his childhood was spent traveling in different countries, and as such, he speaks five languages fluently.
Édgar Ramírez Wife
Despite Ramirez being linked to Ana de Armas in the past, source reveal that he is currently single and the details about Ana and Ramirez remain unknown.
Édgar Ramírez Net Worth
Ramírez has an estimated net worth of $8 million which he has earned though his career as an actor.
Édgar Ramírez Yes Day
Ramírez will be starring on Yes Day an American comedy film based upon the children’s book of the same name by Amy Krouse Rosenthal and Tom Lichtenheld. It stars Jennifer Garner as Allison Torres, Édgar Ramírez as Carlos Torres, and Jenna Ortega as Katie Torres. It is set to be released on March 12, 2021, by Netflix.
It’s about a mom and dad who usually say no to their kids decide to give their three kids a YES DAY — where for 24 hours the kids make the rules.Little did they know that they’d be going on a whirlwind adventure around Los Angeles, that would bring the family closer to each other than ever before.
Édgar Ramírez Movies
- 2022: The 355 – playing a role as Agent Luis
- 2021: Yes Day – playing a role as Carlos Torres
- 2021: Jungle Cruise
- 2020: Resistance – playing a role as Sigmund
- 2020: The Last Days of American Crime – playing a role as Graham Bricke
- 2019: Wasp Network – playing a role as René Gonzalez
- 2018: Furlough – playing a role as Kevin Rivera
- 2018: La quietud – playing a role as Vincent
- 2017: Bright – playing a role as Kandomere
- 2016: Hands of Stone – playing a role as Roberto Durán
- 2016: The Girl on the Train – playing a role as Dr. Kamal Abdic
- 2016: Gold – playing a role as Michael Acosta
- 2015: Joy – playing a role as Tony Miranne
- 2015: Point Break – playing a role as ‘Bodhi’
Édgar Ramírez Tv Shows
- 2020: The Undoing – playing a role as Detective Joe Mendoza
- 2018: The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story – playing a role as Gianni Versace
- 2005: Ser bonita no basta – playing a role as Leonardo
- 2003: Cosita Rica – playing a role as Cacique Chacón
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