Biography for
Édgar Ramírez (II) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

25 March 1977, Caracas, Venezuela

Birth Name

Edgar Ramírez Arellano

Nickname

Catire

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Mini Biography

Edgar Ramirez Arellano is a Venezuelan actor, born in the city of San Cristóbal (Táchira State, southwest Venezuela) on March 25, 1977, which has been highlighted in various media, especially film and television. Ramirez is the son of a soldier, and that is why he spent his childhood in several countries. That is why he speaks fluently English, German, Italian and French in addition to their mother language, Spanish. He studied in the EMF and Social Communication (Journalism) at the Andrés Bello Catholic University in Caracas, where he began to explore his facet as an actor working on several student films.

Acting career

His first recognition as an actor was the successful soap opera Cosita Rica, for the Venezuelan TV channel Venevisión which aired from September 2003 to August 2004, lasting for 270 episodes. In 2005, he made his major international motion picture debut playing Choco, Domino Harvey's love interest in the film Domino, directed by Tony Scott.

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 has appeared in several other productions. Among those are 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.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Marcela Mendoza Prada

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.

Personal Quotes

One of the pillars of Cyrano is recreating a love story and, like any archetype, these great stories tend to be captivating , among other things, because they are made of those universal things that move us

I believe in the will. I believe in discipline. I believe in the organization. I believe in the rigor 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

Who said that being Latino is to be a stereotype, characters are stereotypes when making plans or without shades. I do not believe in the picture or model established in the movies

The action is the most poetic I've found to continue the exploration of human nature,

That is the main reason that I am an actor and by that I wanted to be a diplomat and journalist. I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects. I am in my facet Actor, but I think in essence what it is professed a profound humanism

[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.