Age: 51
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José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal (Spanish: [xoˈseˈpeðɾo βalmaˈseða pasˈkal]; born April 2, 1975) is a Chilean and American actor. After nearly two decades of taking small roles on stage and television, Pascal had his breakout role as Oberyn Martell in the fourth season of the HBO fantasy series Game of Thrones (2014). He gained further prominence with his portrayal of 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), and Triple Frontier (2019). Pascal's leading roles as Din Djarin in the Disney+ science fiction series The Mandalorian (2019–2023) and Joel Miller in the HBO post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us (2023–present) propelled him to international stardom, earning him a reputation for portraying adoptive father figures. For the latter role, he received numerous accolades, including a Screen Actors Guild Award and nominations for a Golden Globe Award and Primetime Emmy Award. He also portrayed parental characters in We Can Be Heroes (2020), Strange Way of Life (2023), and The Wild Robot (2024). Pascal has also starred in the big-budget films Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) and Gladiator II (2024). He plays Reed Richards / Mister Fantastic in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, beginning with The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025). Active in theatre since 1999, he made his Broadway debut as Edmund in a 2019 adaptation of King Lear. In 2023, Time Magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pedro Pascal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Pedro Pascal
The Mandalorian
for The Mandalorian in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi
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After the final battle on Jakku in 'The Force Awakens', Luke and Rey leave to go to Tatooine to meet Mara Jade, as well as Luke's young son, named Jayson. They then leave to go throughout the Galaxy and reunite the New Jedi Order, hoping to receive answers of the ancient evil they face. Once they begin their journey, they reunite with one of the first of the new Jedi Luke trained, Tsabb Bri, a Rodian Jedi. He informs them that he has found a name of an ancient being, one so close to the force, she became a being of pure darkside; Abaloth. They then travel to Ahch-To, home of the first Jedi temple, in hopes of finding answers about Abaloth. Once at the temple, they meet a woman who has been hiding at the temple since the end of the galactic civil war, and claims to have worked with Anakin Skywalker. Her name is Ashoka Tano. Meanwhile, Han, Leia, Lando, Poe, Finn, Udic, and the Mandalorian learn that a major benefactor of the First Order is a female Hutt named Szuumo the Hutt. They learn she resides on Coruscant, and go there to track her down, in hopes of disrupting most of the First Orders finance. Once there, however, they learn a much bigger secret about the First Order. A secret that changes everything.
