Jose Pedro Balmaceda Pascal is a Chilean-born American actor.
27 Facts About Pedro Pascal
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Outside of television, Pedro Pascal has appeared in the films The Adjustment Bureau, The Great Wall, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, The Equalizer 2, Triple Frontier, Wonder Woman 1984, and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.
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Jose Pedro Balmaceda Pascal was born on April 2,1975, in Santiago, Chile to child psychologist Veronica Pascal Ureta and fertility doctor Jose Balmaceda Riera.
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Pedro Pascal has an older sister named Javiera, a younger brother named Nicolas, and a younger sister named Lux, who is an actress and transgender activist.
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Pedro Pascal's mother was the cousin of Andres Pedro Pascal Allende, the nephew of socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende.
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Ultimately, the family moved to the United States, where Pedro Pascal was raised in Orange County, California, and San Antonio, Texas.
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Pedro Pascal participated in competitive swimming in his early years and even reached the state championships in Texas at age 11.
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Pedro Pascal pursued acting at the Orange County School of the Arts and graduated in 1993, before attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he graduated in 1997.
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Pedro Pascal was cast in the pilot for the 2011 Wonder Woman television adaptation, but the show was not picked up.
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Pedro Pascal stated that he was a huge fan of Game of Thrones before being cast as Oberyn and was ecstatic to join.
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In 2015, Pedro Pascal was cast in the role of US DEA agent Javier Pena in the Netflix original show Narcos.
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Pedro Pascal has extensive stage experience as both an actor and director; he received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award and Garland Award for his role in the International City Theater production of Orphans, and has performed in classical and contemporary works.
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Pedro Pascal made his directorial debut with play underneathmybed in 2008.
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Pedro Pascal directed Yosemite and Killing Play at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
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Pedro Pascal is a member of New York City's LAByrinth Theater Company.
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Pedro Pascal made his Broadway debut in February 2019 in an adaptation of King Lear with Glenda Jackson and Ruth Wilson.
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In 2018, Pedro Pascal co-starred as Dave York, the primary antagonist in the thriller sequel film The Equalizer 2; the film starred Denzel Washington.
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Since 2019, Pedro Pascal has portrayed the title role in The Mandalorian, the first live-action Star Wars television series, which debuted on Disney+.
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Pedro Pascal played Maxwell Lord in the DC Extended Universe film Wonder Woman 1984, directed by Patty Jenkins.
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In February 2021, Pedro Pascal was cast in the Judd Apatow film The Bubble.
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Pedro Pascal co-starred with Nicolas Cage in the comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent which premiered at SXSW 2022 in April.
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In February 2021, Pedro Pascal was cast in the lead role of Joel Miller for the HBO adaptation of The Last of Us.
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Pedro Pascal is fluent in both English and Spanish and has been a resident of New York City since 1993.
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Pedro Pascal developed a close friendship with actress Sarah Paulson soon after moving there.
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Pedro Pascal is an advocate of LGBTQ+ rights and was supportive of his sister Lux Pedro Pascal when she came out as transgender.
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Pedro Pascal was one of the first to give me the things that formed my identity.
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Pedro Pascal endorsed leftist Gabriel Boric in the 2021 Chilean presidential election.