Pedro Pascal: biography and filmography

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Pedro Pascal is an American actor of Chilean origin. He is best known for his participation in the popular series Game of Thrones and Narcos. In recent years, increasingly starred in Hollywood blockbusters. In addition to films and TV series, he participated in theatrical productions, starred in music videos and voiced characters in computer games.

Childhood and youth

Pedro Pascal was born on April 2, 1975 in the capital of Chile, the city of Santiago. Shortly after his birth, Augusto Pinochet came to power in the country, and Pedro's parents were forced to leave the country. They received political asylum in Denmark, then moved to California. However, the actor is fluent in Spanish.

As a child, he was fond of swimming and participated in competitions, but at the age of eleven he became interested in theater and stopped training. Studied acting at the Orange County School of the Arts and Tisch School of the Arts in New York.

Career start

At the beginning of the 2000s, Pedro Pascal began acting in various televisionserials. He has appeared in small roles on the popular shows Law & Order and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. From 2009 to 2011 appeared in six episodes of the legal series The Good Wife.

In 2011, Pedro Pascal's filmography saw the first notable full-length project, he played a supporting role in the film "Changing Reality". In 2011, he also co-starred in a pilot for a TV series based on the Wonder Woman comics, but production of the series was not approved by the channel.

In 2013, Pedro Pascal appeared in several popular TV shows at once. Among them are "Nikita", "Motherland" and "Graceland".

The arrival of popularity

In 2014, Pascal was cast as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of Game of Thrones. Appeared in only seven episodes, but the character still became a fan favorite. The actor instantly became recognizable around the world, fans of the series turned photos of Pedro Pascal into memes. Since then, the actor has been flooded with offers.

In the same year, the actor appeared in seven episodes of another popular series "The Mentalist". In 2015, he received one of the main roles in the crime series Narcos, where he played ABN agent Javier Peña. He played the character for three seasons, but in the fourth, the creators decided to completely change the location and cast.

Pedro Pascal also began to appear much more often on the big screen. In 2016, he played one of the main roles in the large-scale American-Chinese blockbuster The Great Wall, where Matt Damon became his partner. A year later, Pascal appeared in the action comedy Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Most recently, the film "The Great Equalizer-2" was released, where Pedro also played one of the main roles.

A number of projects with Pedro Pascal in one of the roles are scheduled to be released in the near future. Among them are Oscar-winning independent drama If Beale Street Could Talk, crime drama Triple Frontier, and blockbuster sequel Wonder Woman.

In addition to acting in films and theater work, Pascal also appeared in the music video of singer Sia, where Heidi Klum became his on-screen partner, and voiced one of the characters in the video game Dishonored 2.