Edgar Ramírez
Biography
Life Story
Edgar Ramirez Arellano is a Venezuelan actor, born on March 25, 1977 in the city of San Cristobal (Tachira State, southwest Venezuela). He is the son of Soday Arellano, an attorney, and Filiberto Ramírez, a military officer.
Being the son of a soldier and living abroad with his family, he learned several languages, like English, German, Italian and French, as well as his mother tongue, Spanish. He studied Journalism (Comunicación Social) at the Andres Bello Catholic University, in Caracas. He began exploring his acting vocation, playing on several school made films.
He was recognized as an actor after portraying "Cacique" in the popular venezuelan soap opera "Cosita Rica", aired through 2003 and 2004, lasting over 270 episodes. His debut as an international Hollywood actor was playing Choco, Domino Harvery's love interest in Tony Scott's Domino.
His next major feature film was Vantage Point directed by Pete Travis. In this high-budgeted Sony Pictures political thriller, Ramírez joined an all-star international cast including Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, Eduardo Noriega and Ayelet Zurer. Ramírez plays Javier, an ex-special forces soldier forced to kidnap the American President. Later on he starred in the title role of Alberto Arvelo's Cyrano Fernández, based on the French play Cyrano de Bergerac.
Ramírez also appears in La Hora Cero (The Magic Hour) (Venezuela), a short film directed by Guillermo Arriaga, the acclaimed screenwriter of Amores Perros, 21 Grams and Babel (Mexico); Plan B, directed by Alejandro García Wiederman (Venezuela); Yotama se va volando (Yotama Flies Away), directed by Luis Armando Roche (Venezuela/France); and Punto y Raya (Step Forward), directed by Elia Schneider (a Venezuela, Spain, Chile and Uruguay co-production), submitted by Venezuela for Oscar consideration for 2004 Best Foreign Film, in which he played the role of Pedro, a Colombian soldier.
Family
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Trivia
Writer Guillermo Arriaga offered him the role of Ramiro in Amores Perros (2000).
Speaks five languages: Spanish, English, French, Italian and German. Spanish is his native language.
Lived one year in Austria.
Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie category for his role as Gianni Versace in American Crime Story (2016), but lost to Jeff Daniels from Godless (2017).
Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television category for his role as Gianni Versace in American Crime Story (2016), but lost to Ben Whishaw for A Very English Scandal (2018).
Personal Quotes
[on performing the title role in 'Carlos'] You must discover a character like Carlos conflict by conflict. Otherwise you kill the life of what you're trying to accomplish.
That is the main reason why I'm an actor and I wanted to be a diplomat and journalist. I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its flaws. I am in my role as actor, but I think that basically what is professed a deep humanism.
I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the stringency that gives us work. I believe in love as an engine of all things. I believe in the light. I believe in God. I believe in kindness.
Acting is the most poetic way I've found to continue the exploration of human nature.
