EXCLUSIVE: Edgar Ramirez is set to join Mark Ruffalo and Mahershala Ali in the second season of HBO‘s lauded crime drama Task. Harry Melling, Adam Nagaitis and Aminah Nieves also recently joined the ensemble.
As previously announced, Ali plays Eddie Barnes, a seasoned and well-respected DEA agent in Philadelphia whose team comes into conflict with the unit of Tom Brandis, played by Ruffalo, who headlined Season 1 opposite Tom Pelphrey.
Ramirez will play Miguel Contreras, a devoted family man and loyal DEA second-in-command torn between duty and guilt.
The first season of Task found Ruffalo’s Brandis forming a task force to track down a crew of masked robbers, led by a working-class family man, that were carrying out a series of violent crimes in the Philadelphia area. In Season 2, Brandis takes the helm of a new task force, but the deeper the operation runs, the harder it is to tell who’s the target.
Task is created by Brad Ingelsby, who returned to HBO following his work on its Emmy-winning crime drama Mare of Easttown. Ingelsby is also writing, showrunning, and exec producing alongside Paul Lee and Mark Roybal for wiip, Jeremiah Zagar, Ruffalo, and Ron Schmidt. Nicole Jordan-Webber and Karen Wacker are co-executive producers.
Ramirez was most recently seen in Emilia Perez, the 2024 Cannes Film Festival jury prize-winning film and the most-nominated film in Golden Globe history with ten nominations at the 82nd ceremony, winning four, including Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy and Best Foreign Language Film. The musical film is directed by Jacques Audiard and stars alongside Selena Gomez, Zoe Saldana, and Karla Sofia Gascón.
He also recently completed work as producer and actor on the Netflix feature Aun Es de Noche En Caracas, based on the New York Times best-selling novel, which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at TIFF in 2025.
He is repped by CAA, Impression Entertainment and Hirsch Wallerstein Hayum Matlof, and Fishman.
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