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Actor Edi Gathengi appreciates the love Kenyans are showing him


Kenyan American actor Edi Gathengi has appreciated the love that Kenyans are showing him. In a tweet, the actor, who is best known for his role in the famous movie trilogy Twilight, where he played a vampire called Laurent, thanked Kenyans for discovering him and for their support.

More recently, Edi has played Matias Solomon in the television hit series, The Blacklist.

All this started after a Kenyan, who goes by the name Maj. Kinuthia Gitau on his Twitter page, posted a small bio of the actor and requested major media houses to invite him for an interview.

Edi was born in Nairobi’s Eastlands before moving to the United States at a young age and grew up in Albany, California.

To him acting started after he injured his knee while playing basketball at the University of California, he later opted to take acting class as an “easy course”.

Up to date Mr Gathengi has featured in more than a dozen movies and television series majority of which he is cast as the villain. In most of his movies or television series he plays as an Hatian and has never played one as an African.