30 photos of actor Pedro Pascal Oberyn Martell from "Game of Thrones"

Childhood and youth

Jose Pedro Balmaceda Pascal was born on April 2, 1975 in the capital of Chile. Soon the family, hiding from the regime of the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, moved to Denmark, where they asked for political asylum. From Europe she moved to the USA, where she settled.

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Pedro Pascal as a child with his dad
As a child, Pedro was interested in sports and participated in swimming competitions, representing the state of Texas. And as a teenager, he became interested in theater and studied at an Orange County studio. Having barely turned 18, the young man moved to New York, where he entered the Tisch School of the Arts.

In the fourth season of Game of Thrones, a new character appears - Oberyn Martell, nicknamed the Red Viper, played by actor Pedro Pascal. The guy’s filmography is not small, but these are all minor roles; the role of Oberyn Martell is so far the most significant in his career. Pedro was born in Chile on April 2, 1975, but when he was 9 months old, he and his parents fled from the dictatorship to Denmark, and then the family settled in the United States, where the future actor received a theater education at the Tisch School of the Arts (in honor of the philanthropist Preston Robert Tisch) at New York University. Pedro Pascal spent most of his life in New York.

The actor's height is 180 cm.

Pedro Pascal was not always known to viewers by that name. Some knew him as Pedro Balmaceda and even as Alexandre Pascal. Pascal is his mother's surname, and Balmaceda is his father's surname. And at one time he was called Alexander Pascal because he was not sure that with such a Latin American name he could expect success, but times change and in the end Pedro decided to take a risk. And now we know him as Pedro Pascal - his native name plus his mother’s surname. Short and sweet.

Pedro does not have a specific role - he was a sleazy lawyer in the series “The Good Wife”, and a military commander in “Black Mark”, a lawyer in “Homeland”, and even the leader of vampires in “Bloodsucking Bastards”. Now he shines in the series “Game of Thrones” in the role of Oberyn Martell.

How did Oberyn Martin appear before us in Game of Thrones? A charming and damn attractive knight surrounded by women and men. Oberyn loves both, besides, he is an extremely dangerous person who always walks on the edge of a knife, but at the same time he is not a bad guy. He came to the wedding of Margaery and Joffrey, but wants to take revenge on Tywin Lannister, on whose orders his sister was killed and her children were killed. Oberyn himself has eight illegitimate daughters, the guy has a huge offspring.

How did the actor get his star role? Pedro Pascal went to Northern Ireland without even knowing whether he got the role or not. He has always been a fan of the series and never thought that he could become a part of it. Pedro Pascal sent in a low-quality recording from his mobile phone to the audition and when he was invited to Belfast, he thought he would be auditioned again, but instead he was given a proper suit. The actor could hardly restrain his overwhelming emotions, he thought: “What is happening here? Have they really taken me? When Pedro Pascal was approved, and he had to familiarize himself with the role, the first time he read the script excitedly, and the second time more restrainedly - as a person who will play the role and who needs to carefully think through his game and create a new one, fateful in his career character.

Long before Pedro Pascal became an actor, back in 1995, he saw Peter Dinklage on the street and approached him to express his admiration for his performance. Then Pedro could not even imagine that he would star with him in Game of Thrones.

On the set, Pedro Pascal became very friendly with Lena Headey; on the screen, their families are unfriendly to each other, but in life their relationship is warm and friendly.

I don’t know what kind of relationship they have there, but it looks promising. I know very little about Pedro Pascal’s personal life yet, but if anything comes up, I’ll definitely write about it!

It seems that Pedro Pascal is not averse to partying with the beautiful actresses of Game of Thrones, so Gwendoline Christie succumbed to his charm.

Personal life

Pedro Pascal's personal life has always been hidden from prying eyes. On the Internet you can find speculation about the actor’s affair with Sarah Paulson, but there is no evidence of this. The celebrities themselves insisted exclusively on friendly feelings. In addition, Sarah admitted that she was not indifferent to women.

Pascal sometimes goes to red carpets accompanied by Amanda Peet. But this is not hot news either: Amanda helped her friend get into the fantasy cast that made him a star. And Robin Tunney, a colleague in “The Mentalist,” is Andrew Dominic’s wife and also just a friend.

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Pedro Pascal and Sarah Paulson
They talk all sorts of things about their relationship with Lena Headey, who plays Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones. The journalists again did not receive any comments. Just streamlined phrases:

“Lena is one of the nicest people. In real life she is so sweet and smart, a good friend, a great mother. Everyone who acts with her instantly falls in love with her. I was so lucky to work with her, become friends and continue to communicate outside of the series.”

Some sites wrote that Pedro is the father of Tallulah Kiarra, the daughter of an actress, who was born in 2015. Others argued that there was nothing in common between Pascal and the girl. Only 2 years later it turned out that Headey gave birth to producer Dan Kadan, whom she married.

Pedro Pascal: “My hero is a real badass!”

The actor played the main role in the new series “The Mandalorian”

The role of the brave and skilled warrior Red Viper - Prince Oberyn - in the cult show "Game of Thrones" made the Chilean famous.

“After Game of Thrones, everything remained the same for me” Jose Pedro Balmaceda Pascal was born in the capital of Chile, but he spent his childhood in Denmark and the USA. At the age of eighteen, Pedro left his parents and began to live independently - in New York. There he studied at the art school affiliated with New York University. Pascal's acting biography began in the theater - he performed in off-Broadway productions. For his role in the play “Orphan” he received two theater awards. Pedro also appeared in many TV series: “Law and Order”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “The Faculty”, “Without a Trace”, NYPD Blue”, “Brothers and Sisters”, “The Mentalist”. But his characters were never the main characters. Pedro Pascal was not always known to viewers by that name. Some knew him as Pedro Balmaceda and even as Alexandre Pascal. Pascal is his mother's surname, and Balmaceda is his father's surname. And at one time he was called Alexander Pedro, because he was not sure that with such a Latin American name he could expect success in the USA, but in the end he decided to take a risk. In 2013, a lucky chance allowed him to participate in the casting for the role of Prince Oberyn in the fantasy show Game of Thrones. At first, the artist gave the video of the audition to his longtime friend Sarah Paulson, who already showed it to Amanda Peet, who was married to the show's producer, David Benioff. Pascal appeared in the fourth season of the show, his character died, but the actor himself was remembered by the audience and became popular. He himself said: “After Game of Thrones, everything remained the same for me: I play in a play, get on the subway, go home. But now every time someone asks me to take off my headphones and confess whether I am the same Prince Oberyn from Dorne. They are very surprised that I don't have the Latin American accent that I chose for my character. I hope this doesn’t upset them too much.” By the way, during filming, the actor’s personal life also came into focus. They began to see him in the company of Lena Headey, who played Cersei. They constantly appeared together in photographs and were not shy about expressing emotions. And then Lena became pregnant and gave birth to a daughter. Many attributed paternity to Pascal, but Headey did not reveal the name of the child's father. Pedro himself said: “Lena is one of the nicest people. In real life she is so sweet and smart, a good friend, a great mother. Everyone who acts with her instantly falls in love with her. I was so lucky to work with her, become friends and continue to communicate outside of the series.”

“We are all covered in armor and are afraid to take it off” Following “Game of Thrones,” the actor’s fans saw the films “In Plain Sight” and “Sweets.” Pedro Pascal was also approved for the main role in the series “Narcos,” which tells about the everyday life of drug police officers. The events of the film are based on the real story of drug lord Pablo Escobar, and Pascal played the role of policeman Javier Peña. Pedro carefully prepared for filming, visited a military base in Virginia, where he met the prototype of his hero and trained a little: “For the first time in my life, I played a person who really exists and is still alive. Pena witnessed those events, and it cannot but inspire,” said Pascal. Pena himself, who left the service in 2014, told the actor one simple truth when they met - it was possible to catch Escobar only by forgetting about the concepts of “good” and “bad.” “The goal was one - to grab him by any means,” continues Pascal. “In such circumstances and surrounded by people with whom you have to get close to achieve a goal, you should not judge anyone. There is no benefit from this." In 2020, Pedro Pascal receives an invitation to participate in the film “The Great Wall” by Chinese director Zhang Yimou. There was also Kingsman: The Golden Circle and other projects. However, the loudest was the first game series from the Star Wars universe. Disney has huge hopes for the show. On November 12, she launched her own streaming service Disney Plus (so far only in the US, Canada and the Netherlands), and the series “The Mandalorian” is essentially the only thing you can watch on it now. The film will tell what happened in the thirty-year gap between the events of the films Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. Specifically, the show explores how the Supreme Order (or First Order), the ruling elite of the new trilogy, came to power. This point was partially touched upon in Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Bloodline, but The Mandalorian promises to explore the topic in more detail, delving into the chaos and lawlessness in some corners of the galaxy after the fall of the Empire. Actually, it is in those corners that the main character of the series, the bounty hunter, appears. His role went to Pedro Pascal. He said that his character's name is Dean Jarrin, he is similar to the heroes of Clint Eastwood. “This is a mysterious lone gunman from the far reaches of the galaxy. Some might say he is a morally questionable character, in keeping with the heroes of our best Westerns. And he's a badass! I love the opportunity to make him so human and approachable, which is strange because he's armored from head to toe. But the idea is that we are all armored to some degree and afraid to take it off. And that's what really makes him a character that we all really want to follow."

Prepared by Lina Lisitsyna, based on materials from https://Fancy-journal.com, https://soyuz.ru, https://24smi.org

Movies

Pascal's creative biography began on the theater stage, where the actor earned his first awards. The next step on the path to fame was the series. Pedro can be seen in the cult “Law and Order”, “Without a Trace”, “NYPD Blue”, “Charlie’s Angels”, “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”. In these early projects he starred without a mustache.

In the late 2000s, Pascal got prominent roles in the films “The Good Wife” and “Motherland.” He appeared in the American interpretation of "Nikita" with Maggie Q, in "The Mentalist" with Simon Baker, in "Body Investigation" with Dana Delaney.

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In 2011, the man’s filmography was expanded with the thriller “Reality Changers” with Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. Unfortunately, Pedro's role was minor, and the film failed at the box office.

Pascal's finest hour came in 2013. And although the Game of Thrones character Oberyn Martell appears only in 7 episodes of the 4th season of the series, the actor’s bright and sincere performance captivated the audience.

The courageous and charismatic hero (Pedro’s height is 180 cm) is obsessed with plans for revenge on the Lannisters for the massacre of his sister. Alas, in the story, Oberyn is killed by Gregor Clegane in the person of Hafthor Bjornson.

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Pedro Pascal and Boyd Holbrook
In 2015, Pascal was cast in the coveted leading role in the horror film Bloodsucking Scum. The partners on the set were Joel Murray and Joey Kern. The film turned out to be very stylish: a moderate dose of black humor and subtle ridicule of the “vampire” theme ensured high ratings.

Following this, the actor starred in the films “In Plain Sight” and “Sweets,” and received another leading role in the TV series “Narcos,” based on the real story of drug lord Pablo Escobar.

In 2016, Pascal received an invitation to participate in the film “The Great Wall” by Chinese director Zhang Yimou. The film begins as a classic detective story: a company of adventurers goes to the Middle Kingdom to steal the secret of black gunpowder. Here Pedro worked in a team with Matt Damon and Willem Dafoe.

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In the action comedy film Kingsman: The Golden Circle, he played a cowboy spy, assistant to the head of the secret service. This image went to Halle Berry. Julianne Moore played the role of the main villain.

Pascal's hero in the thriller The Great Equalizer 2, on the contrary, hunts for undercover agents and enters into a fight with the characters of Denzel Washington and Melissa Leo.

One of the photos on the actor’s Instagram is a poster for the science-fiction film “Perspective.” At the South by Southwest festival, critics called it the best since the drama “Luna 2112.”

Career

Pascal had episodic roles in such TV series as “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, “The Excellent Wife”, “Homeland”, “The Mentalist”, “Law and Order. Criminal Intent", "Graceland" and others. He auditioned for the 2011 Wonder Woman TV series adaptation, which ultimately did not make it to air. In April 2014, he appeared in the TV series Game of Thrones in the role of Prince Oberyn Martell, which brought him worldwide fame.

Pascal received LA Drama Critics Circle Awards and a Garland Award for his role in the international city theater play “Orphan”. He has performed off-Broadway in such productions as Maple and Vine by Jordan Harrison, Beauty of the Father by Nilo Cruz, Based on a Totally True Story by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa, Sand by Trista Baldwin, Old Comedy by David Greenspan, Some Men by Terrence McNally and Shakespeare in the Park's. Pascal is a member of the LAByrinth Theater Company in New York.

Pedro Pascal now

Nowadays, if directors don’t stand in line to see Pedro, they certainly don’t let him sit without work. At the beginning of 2020, Netflix presented the action-packed action film Triple Frontier, which again deals with the fight against drug trafficking.

At first, Kathryn Bigelow took on the role of filming the film with Johnny Depp and Tom Hardy. As a result, the ensemble cast, in addition to Pascal, included Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck. The director also changed.

Then Pedro received the main role in the TV series “The Mandalorian,” which is based in the Star Wars universe. Chronologically, the new film takes place during the era of the fall of the empire in Return of the Jedi. The actor plays a representative of a warlike race that survives in a remote corner of space.

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Pedro Pascal in 2020
The central character in Pascal and in the superhero action film Wonder Woman 1984. The director of the sequel, Patty Jenkins, with whom the actor worked on the series “In Plain Sight,” entrusted his old acquaintance with the role of a villainous businessman who hates people with extraordinary abilities. At the same time, he dreams of rising to the level of God and is looking for artifacts that will help in this.

The premiere of the film from the fall of 2019 was postponed to the summer of 2020. In the vacated period, the action comedy “Charlie’s Angels” with Kristen Stewart was released.

Filming began in Northern Brazil for the Tropico project, which the American press dubbed an exotic thriller. Pedro plays a businessman who is spied on by Willem Dafoe's character. The task assigned to the experienced operative becomes more complicated when he falls in love with two women at once - the wife of the subject of surveillance and her twin sister. Morena Baccarin, the star of “Deadpool” and “Gotham,” had to “split into two” in the image.

Pedro Pascal: interview about personal life and career

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Last updated: 11/24/2018 The Kingsman: The Golden Circle star who found fame in his forties. As Pedro Pascal slumps into a chair at the Soho Hotel in London, he tells a story. Two days before he left the location of his current project in Seattle, an indie film called Prospect, the driver called didn't recognize him and passed him by as one of the city's homeless. “I was wearing a loose flannel,” he says. “I wore comfortable clothes for traveling.”

The actor blames his collapsed luggage, held together with duct tape after Colombia, Croatia, China, Belfast and London. Still, this embarrassment speaks to the craziness of 42-year-old life over the last couple of years.

He is wearing casual clothes: white T-shirt, blue jeans, black sneakers. His circadian rhythms are out of sync due to jet lag due to a long-haul flight. His brain is pulsating from the Saturday morning press conference. And as for his body. “Do I look like I go to the gym?” - he says, holding out his top hand.

MRPORTER's Craig McLean asks him to sum up the past two years in one sentence. Pedro Pascal chuckled heavily as he sipped his black Americano. He finally responds, “Oh, my back.

“It’s funny that I can’t find the answer,” he says. “This failure has a lot to do with the go-go-go aspect of the last two years. You never feel like you're catching up. It's ironic to get something you worked so hard for. You need to stop and look behind yourself and evaluate what happened. And there is a strange reality that the load happened, and it’s all in the film.”

This is true. As Pedro Pascal reached the end of his thirties, he finally established himself as the next big thing. First there was an unforgettable run in Season 4 of Game of Thrones. Pascal played Prince Obernand Martell, the all-pervasive Red Viper of Dorne (his exterior scenes were filmed in Croatia, interior scenes in Belfast). It all ended with his head being crushed like a watermelon by Cersei's favorite knight, known as "The Mountain".

Then there was the move to the big screen for The Great Wall, a potential blockbuster starring Jimmy Kimmel. Then back to Narcos, the Netflix series about the Colombian drug cartels in the 1980s. In something of a homecoming, Pascal plays Javier Peña, a US Drug Enforcement Administration employee. Narcos plays for six months in Colombia, with the recently completed Season 3 premiering this month. There is blood, corruption and cocaine, mountains of it, and Pascal is again at the center of the action. But not Pablo Escobar.

But for now he returned to cinema. In Kingsman: The Golden Circle, the explosive follow-up to 2020's box office triumph Kingsman: The Secret Service, director Matthew Vaughn cast Pascal as the Statesman figure. They are the native, all-American counterparts to the British secret agents led by Colin Firth, Mark Strong and Taron Egerton. Pedro Pascal plays Agent Whiskey, a "fit and loaded cowboy" who works with agents Channing Tatum and Jeff Bridges.

If we want to get all the amateur psychologists out there and reveal the ego's refreshing lack, Pascal invites us to consider its cultural status. “I’m not even a first-generation American,” he says. “I was born in Chile and was almost two years old when I came to the States. There is something. It's just rude if you don't respect. Because you are a guest. Also, don't pay too much attention to yourself. And you still have something to prove, and it can’t be done with anything demonstrative or arrogant.”

After General Augusto Pinochet seized power in Chile in 1973, Pascal's parents fled the country. First, they hid in the Venezuelan embassy, after which they were granted asylum in Denmark. After his fertility father got a job in a laboratory in the United States, the family emigrated first to San Antonio, Texas, then to Orange County, California.

It was a comfortable, art-filled childhood for Pascal, his sister and two brothers. In films, he was a self-proclaimed early adopter "nerd" who loved horror films. At the age of six, Poltergeist entered his life like a brick through a window. Taking advantage of the fact that his mother was at the same time pursuing a doctorate in child psychology, he watched it twice a day, every day, for the entire week of summer vacation.

“When Poltergeist came out, I already knew who I was,” he says. “And so when I saw the trailers for it, honestly, that was the primal seed of this kind of fantasy. My imagination has developed so much from this film that I think it's a little exciting."

The Pascal family were delighted with the concerts, and parents took their children to see Police, Iggy Pop and The Contenders. Did they have such a lust for life because the dictatorship almost cost them their lives? “Well, they were young,” Pedro says. "And in a way they saw it as, 'This is what you do as a family in America.' So my sister got tickets to Madonna's Like A Virgin tour for her birthday and we all went. Yes, wicked! At age 12, he saw U2 on the Joshua Tree tour. “And when I was 14 years old, I saw the Stones Steel Wheels tour with Guns N' Roses opening. Imperial years. It was like traveling to Africa. It was something that was burned in my head."

He is ashamed to admit that these days he is more disconnected from concerts and going to the cinema. He is a "brute" who can't be bothered with taking turns or effort. "I'm sitting in a hotel room and I'm watching Netflix."

Pedro Pascal is not married. When was his last serious relationship? “Oh my gosh,” he says. "Three years ago? Yes, yes, we will see if I die alone." This, he believes, is probably a downside to the traveling madness of the past few years. “If I stopped and thought about dating, I don't know how it would work with the schedule I had,” he says. “I guess that sounds a little arrogant. But if I want to be involved in something, I want to pay attention to it, and I want to dedicate myself to it. The energy has to be with someone - physical energy, emotional energy - and you want them to be happy. So I didn't have time. Thank God for the Internet."

And he adds, brightening up, thank God for London. He loves coming to the city, not least for stage productions. Theater seems to be one of the few pleasures he actively seeks. Tonight he'll see Angels In America, Tony Kushner's epic two-hour meditation on AIDS and homosexuality in the US in the 1980s. “My friend Russell Tovey is in it,” says Pascal. “He's a great guy. And he's all about it. He got me tickets for both parts. Tony Kushner said it was the best production he'd ever seen, and that made me angry. You can't give this to the British. It's not fair. This is Angels In America. There's a clue in the name."

Pascal's agents force him to fly straight to the States, he coughs, otherwise he would try to get tickets to the famous Sam Mendes production The Ferryman by Jez Butterworth. “This trip is so crazy, I can't even pretend I'm here,” Pascal says. "I'm already thinking about what I need to do on Monday in Los Angeles that I can postpone so that I can stay and see this game." Of course, on the rare occasions he lives in Los Angeles, he goes out. “Yes, of course, but I get pretty bored in my old age. I have to be invited and I have to go out. My friends make it very difficult for me about this.”

He's cheerful about the disconnect between the parts he plays and the life he leads. So this is a snapshot of the busy, giddy, enigmatic Pascal in his early forties. Before he goes, does he want to have another offer? The actor frowns, is nervous and fans himself. His publicist nearby always, like all publicists, offers this: “The joys and fears of getting everything you ever hoped for.”

This is good, even better. "Oh, there's a James Baldwin quote: 'Be careful what you wish for, because you'll probably get it.' This is the last two years,” he says.

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