Edgar Ramirez
Edgar Ramirez
Édgar Filiberto Ramírez Arellanois a Venezuelan actor. He played Carlos in the 2010 French-German biopic series Carlos, a role for which he won the César Award for Most Promising Actor at the César Awards 2011, and was nominated for a Golden Globe and Emmy Award. He also played Larry, a CIA operative in Pakistan, in the film Zero Dark Thirty, and Paz, a CIA assassin, in The Bourne Ultimatum. Ramírez won at the 2012 ALMA Awards for Ares in Wrath...
NationalityVenezuelan
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 March 1977
CitySan Cristobal, Venezuela
CountryVenezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
It's huge. We've set the tone. Now we can go out and get the series (tonight).
For me, no ideological or political conviction would justify the sacrifice of a human life. For me, the value of life is absolute, with no concessions. It's not negotiable.
I've never lived in an English-speaking country, ever, but I lived in Austria. So, my second language is German. And when I went to school, I had a lot of classes in English.
I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.
I'm acting for the same reasons I wanted to become a diplomat. I've thought about it a lot and concluded that I wanted to become a diplomat because it was a way to explore human nature. For the same reason that at one point in college, I wanted to be a sociologist.