Edi Gathegi

He played covert operative Matias Solomon on The Blacklist, which he reprised for the spinoff series The Blacklist: Redemption. Gathegi is also featured in the AMC series Into the Badlands as Baron Jacobee. He has also played a leading role in Startup, a television drama series on Crackle. Since 2022, Gathegi has played engineer and entrepreneur Dev Ayesa in the Apple TV+ original science fiction space drama series For All Mankind, and played Mister Terrific in the DC Universe film Superman (2025).

• Name — Edi Gathegi • Birth Name — Edi Mūe Gathegi • Born — 10 March 1979 • Birthplace — Nairobi, Nairobi City County, Kenya • Education — * University of California, Santa Barbara (BA) • New York University (MFA) • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 2006–present

Born on March 10, 1979, in Nairobi, Kenya, Gathegi grew up in Albany, California, U.S. Gathegi attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he played basketball until a knee injury ended his career. Gathegi then began taking acting classes. He studied at New York University's Graduate Acting Program at the Tisch School of the Arts, graduating in 2005. Gathegi's career began in theatre, and his stage credits include Two Trains Running at the Old Globe Theatre, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Cyrano de Bergerac, among others.

Gathegi's first professional role was the Haitian Cabbie in the 2006 film, Crank. Though he had originally auditioned for the role of Kaylo, the producers gave the role to Efren Ramirez and instead offered Gathegi an appearance as the Haitian Cabbie. He 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, Gathegi went on to star as Bodie in Death Sentence, Darudi in The Fifth Patient, and Cheese in Gone Baby Gone. He later had a recurring role as Mormon intern Dr. Jeffrey Cole in the television medical drama House. His character was often mocked for his religious beliefs by Dr. House, who himself is an atheist. He also guest-starred in CSI: Miami, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and Life on Mars in 2008 before being cast as Laurent in Twilight. When 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. Gathegi later read the whole series and now considers himself a hardcore fan. He portrayed Eddie Willers in Atlas Shrugged (2011), based on Ayn Rand's novel of the same name. He 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. He has also been a recurring character in NBC's television series The Blacklist as Matias Solomon, an operative for a covert organization. Gathegi reprised the role in the 2016–2017 season crime thriller The Blacklist: Redemption. He also portrays the character Ronald Dacey on StartUp. In July 2025, Gathegi appeared as Mister Terrific in the DC Universe (DCU) film Superman (2025).

Gathegi married Romanian dancer Adriana Marinescu in 2018.

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2007 — House — Dr. Jeffrey Cole — Recurring role; 7 episodes • Lincoln Heights — Boa — 3 episodes • Veronica Mars — Zeke Molinda — Episode: "I Know What You'll Do Next Summer" • 2008 — CSI: Miami — Freddie Mays — Episode: "Tunnel Vision" • Life on Mars — Fletcher Bellow — Episode: "Things to Do in New York When You Think You're Dead" • CSI: Crime Scene Investigation — Skinny Dude — Episode: "Leave Out All the Rest" • 2011 — Nikita — Kalume Ungara — Episode: "Girl's Best Friend" • 2012 — Phineas and Ferb — Iggy/Various characters — 2 episodes • 2013 — The Family Tools — Darren Poynton — Main role; 10 episodes • Beauty & the Beast — Kyle — 3 episodes • Red Widow — Leon • 2014 — Justified — Jean Baptiste — 4 episodes • Wild Card — Tres — Unsold television pilot • 2015 — Proof — Zed — Main role; 10 episodes • 2015–2016 — The Blacklist — Matias Solomon — Recurring role; 13 episodes • 2015 — Into the Badlands — Jacobee — 2 episodes • 2016–18 — StartUp — Ronald Dacey — Main role; 30 episodes • 2017 — The Blacklist: Redemption — Matias Solomon — Main role; 8 episodes • 2020 — Briarpatch — A.D. Singe — Main role • 2022 — The Guardians of Justice — Mr. Smiles — 7 episodes • 2022–present — For All Mankind — Dev Ayesa — Main role; season 3–present

• Year — Title — Role — Notes • 2023 — The Mantawauk Caves — James Fincher — Main role; podcast

Edi Gathegi is recorded with the occupation stage actor. Recorded as actor, director and film producer. Recorded at birth as Edi Mue Gathegi.