Meet Kenyan Born Actor Who Found Success in Hollywood Even Before Lupita Nyong’o

Meet Edi Mue Gathegi a Kenyan, based in American, film, stage and television actor. He was born in Eastland’s, Nairobi on March 10 1979 before his family moved to Albany California in the USA.

 Lupita is widely known and she made and still continues to be a hit like no other but do we ever stop and wonder if there could be others out there? Maybe you’ve seen them on your TV screen but you didn’t know they had Kenyan blood flowing in their systems.

 You’ve probably  seen him in movies but not many people try to know who he is and where he hails from. If you have watched The Twilight Saga you probably know him as Laurent.

Meet Edi Mue Gathegi a Kenyan, based in American, film, stage and television actor. He was born in Eastland’s, Nairobi on March 10 1979 before his family moved to Albany California in the USA.

While pursuing a degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he was more interested in playing basketball and he was interestingly good at it.

But things went wrong when he injured his knee and was sidelined. This left him depressed and as a result he took up an acting class as a way of minimizing his depression and also as an easy course. This was the start of his successful career in the film industry.

Through the acting class he discovered that he had love for acting. He afterwards attended the prestigious graduate acting program at the New York University in the Tisch School of arts. He later graduated in 2005. In a typical year, the Graduate Acting Program will personally audition more than 800 students in order to select an ensemble of 16 actors. So you can imagine what it took him to be selected.

 His career began in theatre, and his stage credits include Two Trains Running at the Old Globe Theatre, Othello, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream and Cyrano de Bergerac among others.

The second born in a family of three began his film career in 2006, when he appeared in the action flick Crank. From there, he began appearing both on the silver screen and the small screen; one of his most memorable television roles came in 2007, when he starred as Jeffrey “Big Love” Cole, an unsuccessful fellowship applicant, in the medical series House.

In 2008 he appeared in TV series CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and CSI: Miami. In earlier years he had also been in the fifth patient and veronica mars.

He also been a guest on Veronica Mars, CSI and Life on Mars.

He has also earned an Ovation nomination in 2011 for his work in the play Superior Donuts at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles.

In his acting career he says that he had thought it was easy but it was difficult but through his passion he was able to go through the transformations of becoming a different person and appreciate all aspects of life.

Now that you know him, He is currently working on a series called “Criminal Activities” and you can get to see his talent there.