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).
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| Born | José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal April 2, 1975 Santiago, Chile |
| Other names | Pedro Balmaceda Alexander Pascal |
| Education | New York University (BFA) |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1996–present |
| Relatives | Lux Pascal (sister) |
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Since 2019, Pascal has starred as the title character in the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian, a roll he revisits 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 received nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Time magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2023.