Edi Gathegi

Edi Gathegi  United States-based Kenyan actor, Edi Gathegi is set to co-star in a new comedy dubbed 'Family Tools'. The show was among those announced by ABC this week in the mid-season programming and will premiere on Wednesday, May 1 at 8:30 pm. Related article: Edi Gathegi to Feature in US Video Game  The 10-episodes show stars Kyle Bornheimer as Jack Shea, an ex-policeman who returns home after a series of bad luck (accidentally shooting himself being one of them). Jack later gets the...Read Full Story

A Twilight Saga star has signed on for Beauty and the Beast. No, not that one. According to Entertainment Weekly, Edi Gathegi will join The CW drama as Kyle, an agent for a top-secret organization who "can easily assess anyone’s weaknesses and happily exploit them," based on network casting notes. Gathegi will debut later on in Beauty and the Beast Season 1, which returns on January 24. In other recent casting news that broke during the show's hiatus, Sendhil Ramamurthy will soon come on...Read Full Story

THE PUBLICITY machine is starting to whirr into life for 20th Century Fox's summer release X-Men: First Class. Director Matthew Vaughn's film - produced by Bryan Singer - is a prequel to the X-Men world established by the previous films and features younger versions of Professor Xavier and Magneto during the 1960s, before they became opponents. The first look at the cast surfaced last night and, although pulled from some sites, has stayed on most of them overnight so I'm now taking the chance...Read Full Story

Kenyan-born actor Edi Gathengi is set to feature in an upcoming video game “Hawken” to be released at the end of this year. The trailer was released earlier in the week featuring Gathegi best known for his recurring character Dr. Jeffrey Cole in the television series House.   Hawken™ is a multiplayer FPS mech combat game currently under development using the Unreal Engine from Epic Games. It is focused to create an intense and enjoyable battle experience that captures the feeling of piloting...Read Full Story

Edi Gathegi, who played Laurent in 'Twilight' and 'New Moon,' has signed on to 'X-Men: First Class.' The 31 year old Kenya native will play Armando Munoz, also known as Darwin, a mutant who has the power of adaptive evolution. His power automatically gives him various abilities based on his environment. With Matthew Vaughn directing, 'X-Men: First Class,' following the classic Marvel mythology, charts the epic beginning of the X-Men saga. Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the...Read Full Story