Edgar Ramírez Arellano is 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. His first recognition as an actor was the successful soap opera Cosita Rica, for Venevisión which aired in September 2003 to August 2004 lasting 270 episodes. In 2005, he made his major motion picture début playing Choco, Domino Harvey's love interest in the film Domino directed by Tony Scott. He was in 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, Forrest Whitaker, Eduardo Noriega, and Ayelet Zurer. Ramírez plays Javier, an ex-special forces soldier forced to kidnap the American President in order to get his brother back. Upcoming is Cyrano Fernandez, with Ramírez in the title role. This independent production was directed by Alberto Arvelo and is based on the French play Cyrano de Bergerac. Ramírez has appeared in several other productions. Among those are the first part of the two film bundle Che by Steven Soderbergh, where he played the role of Ciro Redondo (a Cuban revolutionary who fought amongst Ché Guevara), La Hora Cero (The Magic Hour), 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); Punto y raya (Step Forward), directed by Elia K. Schneider (Venezuela-Spain-Chile-Uruguay), submitted by Venezuela for Oscar consideration for 2004 Best Foreign Film, in which he played Colombian soldier Pedro. In 2007, he played the role of Paz, a Blackbriar assassin, in The Bourne Ultimatum. In the original Bourne Ultimatum, the villain is Illich Ramirez Sanchez, aka Carlos the Jackal. Ramírez went on to play the role of the actual Carlos in the 2010 French-German limited series Carlos. At the French César Awards 2011, he was awarded, for the film version of the TV series, the César Award for Most Promising Actor. Ramírez appeared in the Clash of the Titans (2010) sequel, Wrath of the Titans (2012), playing Ares, the God of War. Also in 2012, he played Larry in the Kathryn Bigelow film, Zero Dark Thirty.
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Libertador
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English )
Director:
Ana Loehnert
,
Carlos Julio Molina
,
Elisa Sednaoui
Music Director:
Jina Jay
Gold
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English )
Director:
Stephen Gaghan
,
Bill Almeida
,
Stephen Mullen
,
Clay Liversidge
Music Director:
Jungle Cruise
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English )
Director:
Jaume Collet-Serra
Music Director:
Dwayne Johnson
Release date:
24-09-2021
Other Versions:
Jungle Cruise (Malayalam)
, Jungle Cruise (Kannada)
, Jungle Cruise (Tamil)
, Jungle Cruise (Telugu)
, Jungle Cruise (Hindi)
Yes Day
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English )
Artist:
Jenna Ortega
,
Miguel Arteta
,
H.E.R.
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Nat Faxon
,
Molly Sims
Director:
Daniel Rappaport
Music Director:
Susie DeSanto
Release date:
12-03-2021
The Girl on the Train
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English )
Director:
Tate Taylor
,
Jonathan Karp
Music Director:
Paul Schnee
Release date:
07-10-2016
The Counselor
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English )
Director:
Steve Schwartz
Music Director:
Avy Kaufman
Release date:
25-10-2013
Wrath of the Titans
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English )
Director:
Polly Johnsen
,
John Cochrane
Music Director:
Jany Temime
Release date:
29-03-2012
Che: Part One
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English )
Director:
Peter Buchman
,
Oscar Isaac
Music Director:
Rodrigo Bellott
Release date:
21-05-2008
Vantage Point
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English )
Director:
Callum Greene
Music Director:
Guillermo Iván
Release date:
21-02-2008
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