Pascal, Pedro (1975-…), is a Chilean-born American actor. He has become known for roles in popular action, fantasy, and science fiction motion pictures and television series. Pascal has played starring roles in some of pop culture’s most successful fictional worlds, including “Star Wars” and “Game of Thrones.” 
In the “Star Wars” universe, Pascal plays the bounty hunter Din Djarin, the title character in the series “The Mandalorian” (2019-…). Djarin adopts Grogu—the tiny alien nicknamed “Baby Yoda” by fans—as both characters search for their roots across the galaxy.
In 2023, the popular video game The Last of Us (2013) was adapted into a television series of the same name. Pascal co-starred with the English actor Bella Ramsey as the lead characters Joel and Ellie. The two fight off fungus-infected zombies in a post-apocalyptic America.
José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal was born in Santiago, Chile, on April 2, 1975. His family fled the military dictator Augusto Pinochet when he was a child. They settled in the United States, first in San Antonio, Texas, and then in Orange County, California. Pascal quickly became interested in acting.
After high school, he attended the Orange County School of the Arts. In 1993, Pascal moved to New York City to study acting at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Following the 1999 death of his mother, Verónica Pascal, he began working under the name Pedro Pascal to honor her memory. He appeared in many film, television, and theater roles on his rise to stardom.
In 2014, Pascal gained attention for his supporting role as Prince Oberyn Martell in the television fantasy series “Game of Thrones” (2011-2019). He then starred in “Narcos” (2015-2017) as an American Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent hunting down the Colombian drug trafficker Pablo Escobar.
Pascal made his motion picture debut in the Spanish language film Hermanas (2005). In 2020, Pascal appeared as the villain in the DC Comics movie Wonder Woman 1984. He co-starred with the American actor Nicolas Cage in The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022).
