Pedro Pascal is a Chilean and American actor who rose to prominence for portraying Oberyn Martell during the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014) and Javier Peña in the Netflix crime series Narcos (2015–2017).
Pedro Pascal movies
Amongst his many productions include his portrayal of Javier Peña in the Netflix crime series Narcos (2015–2017). The Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian and since 2023, played Joel in the HBO drama series The Last of Us. He also reprised his Mandalorian role in the spin-off series The Book of Boba Fett (2022).
Outside of television, Pascal has appeared in the films The Adjustment Bureau (2011), 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).
Pedro Pascal biography
The son of fertility specialist José Balmaceda Riera and child psychologist Verónica Pascal Ureta, José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal was born in Santiago on April 2, 1975.
He has a younger brother named Nicolás, a younger sister named Lux who is an activist and a performer, and an older sister named Javiera.
His mother was the cousin of socialist Chilean President Salvador Allende’s nephew Andrés Pascal Allende (through his sister Laura). In order to topple Augusto Pinochet’s military dictatorship, Andrés served as an early leader of the urban guerrilla movement known as the Movement of the Revolutionary Left.
Pascal claims that his parents were ardent supporters of Allende and prominent members of anti-Pinochet guerrilla organizations. As a result, his family requested asylum in the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago nine months after his birth, and they were subsequently given political asylum in Denmark.
The family eventually migrated to the US, where Pascal was raised in San Antonio, Texas and Orange County, California. His family was able to frequently travel back to Chile by the time he was eight years old to see his 34 relatives.
In 1995, a federal grand jury indicted his father in connection with activities at a fertility clinic he co-owned with two other men.
This led to the return of his mother, father, and two younger siblings to Chile; Pascal maintains that his father did nothing wrong. In 1999, his mother committed suicide.
In memory of her and because he believed Americans had trouble pronouncing the surname Balmaceda, he started using her last name professionally after she passed away.
Is Pedro Pascal married?
Pascal’s marital life is not out there in the open. In the meantime, he has established a close bond with actress Sarah Paulson, having met her soon after moving to New York.