Pedro Pascal on screen and stage
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Pedro Pascal is a Chilean and American actor who has appeared on stage and screen. Beginning his career with theatre and small television roles, 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 appeared in the 2017 film Kingsman: The Golden Circle and starred as Dave York in the action-thriller film The Equalizer 2 (2018) and as Francisco "Catfish" Morales in the action-adventure film Triple Frontier (2019). Pascal achieved worldwide fame with his leading roles as Din Djarin in the Disney+ Star Wars series The Mandalorian (2019–present) and Joel Miller in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023–present), after which he became recognized for his portrayals of adoptive father figures to gifted children. He received several accolades for the latter performance, including winning a Screen Actors Guild Award and a People's Choice Award, and receiving nominations for a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Pascal has also appeared in the superhero films Wonder Woman 1984 and We Can Be Heroes (both 2020), the action-comedy film The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022), the television series The Mentalist (2014) and Animal (2021), and made a guest appearance on the Fox animated sitcom HouseBroken in 2023. He co-starred with Temuera Morrison in the miniseries The Book of Boba Fett (2022), reprising his role from The Mandalorian. In American theatre, Pascal has had roles in several Shakespearean plays. He wrote one original play and has directed four performances in his career. He made his Broadway debut as Edmund in a 2019 adaptation of King Lear.