Pedro Pascal
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (Spanish: [xoˈse ˈpeðɾo βalmaˈseða pasˈkal]; born April 2, 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. After nearly two decades of taking small roles in film and television, Pascal rose to prominence for portraying Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014) and Javier Peña in the Netflix crime series Narcos (2015–2017). He went on to appear in the films The Great Wall (2016), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), The Equalizer 2 (2018), Triple Frontier (2019), Wonder Woman 1984 (2020), and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022).
For people with a similar name, see Pedro Pascual (disambiguation).
Pedro Pascal
Since 2019, Pascal has starred as the title character in the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian, a role he reprised in The Book of Boba Fett (2022). In 2023, he played Joel Miller in the HBO drama series The Last of Us, for which he won a Screen Actors Guild Award and received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.[1][2] Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.[3]
Career
1999–2013: Early work
Pascal has appeared in several television series, including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Good Wife, Homeland, The Mentalist, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Graceland.[18] He was cast in the pilot for the 2011 Wonder Woman television adaptation,[19] but the show was not picked up.
Personal life
Pascal is fluent in both English and Spanish and has been a resident of New York City since 1993.[14] He developed a close friendship with actress Sarah Paulson soon after moving there.[66]
Pascal is an advocate of LGBTQ+ rights[67] and was supportive of his sister Lux Pascal when she came out as transgender. Lux said, "He has been an important part of this. He is also an artist and has been a guide. He was one of the first to give me the things that formed my identity."[68]
Pascal identifies as an agnostic and a progressive liberal.[69] He endorsed leftist Gabriel Boric in the 2021 Chilean presidential election.[70]