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Adrian Kayvan Pasdar (born April 30, 1965) is an American actor and film director, best known for playing Jim Profit on the cult TV series Profit, for his roles in Near Dark, Mysterious Ways and Heroes, and for directing the feature film Cement.
Early years
Pasdar was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His father, Homayoon Pasdar, was a cardiac surgeon who was born in Iran and moved to the United States, working as a surgeon near Philadelphia. His mother, Rosemarie Sbresny was born in Königsberg, Germany, and worked as a nurse before becoming an English teacher in France.
Pasdar won a football scholarship to the University of Florida. However, he was badly injured in a car accident during his freshman year. The accident left his face scarred, his legs badly injured, and kept him in a wheelchair for several months. Pasdar finished his freshman year in a wheelchair, doing intensive physical therapy and turning his attention to campus stage productions and rediscovering a childhood interest in writing and acting. No longer able to play football, he dropped out of school and returned home, taking a job with a theater group, People's Light and Theatre Company. Here he worked on sound and lighting and also did set construction. One day, while constructing a set, he cut off the end of his left thumb. He used the resulting medical compensation to pay for attendance at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in Los Angeles.
Acting and directing
Film
At the age of 19, he auditioned for a role in Top Gun. Director Tony Scott was so impressed that he wrote the part of "Chipper" just for him. This led to bigger roles in Solarbabies (1986), Streets of Gold (1986), and Kathryn Bigelow's 1987 cult vampire movie Near Dark (1987), with Pasdar in the lead role of Caleb Colton. Other major roles include Vital Signs (1990). In 1992, he left Hollywood and returned to New York, working as a cashier for room and board, while taking the occasional small part, such as Frankie in Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way (1993).
Adrian Pasdar wrote and directed the short film Beyond Belief and directed his first feature film, the art-house neo-noir Cement, a contemporary re-telling of Othello, in 1999. The $1.7 million independent feature, which won Best Picture awards on the festival circuit, starred Chris Penn, Jeffrey Wright, Sherilyn Fenn, Henry Czerny and was written by Farscape's screenwriter Justin Monjo.
“ "I've used every ounce of energy and every drop of money I had to make Cement," Pasdar said. ”
Television
Pasdar's major break into television came in 1996, when he was cast as the title character on the short-lived Fox series Profit.
From 2000 to 2002, Pasdar played the lead role of Anthropology Professor Declan Dunn in the spooky cult drama series Mysterious Ways on PAX.
Pasdar played David McClaren in the final two seasons of the long-running CBS drama Judging Amy, from 2004 through 2005. In 2006, he had a high-profile guest role as Gabrielle Solis' sleazy lawyer in Desperate Housewives.
He currently stars in the NBC superhero drama Heroes as Nathan Petrelli.
Marriage and family
Anamarie "Pinky" Pasdar is the younger sister of Adrian Pasdar. She is also an actor and appeared in the Mysterious Ways episode Handshake.
Pasdar married lead singer Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in June 2000. The couple first met in May 1999, at the wedding of band member Emily Robison and singer-songwriter Charlie Robison. They were married in Las Vegas's Little White Wedding Chapel, in a $55 no-frills ceremony officiated by the chapel's "Pastor Ann." They have two children, Jackson Slade Pasdar (born March 15, 2001) and Beckett Finn Pasdar (born July 14, 2004) and live in Los Angeles and Austin, TX.
Awards & nominations
* 2000: Grand Remi Award (WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival): Cement
* 2000: AngelCiti film festival: Audience Award, Cement
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Adrian Pasdar Let Go From NBC's 'Heroes' – Deadline.comStill, Adrian Pasdar's forced exit is surprising unless flying is no longer considered a cool enough capability. More likely is that the show keeps suffering lousy ratings because it never recovered from being interrupted during the ... Continue reading
Adrian Pasdar is getting animated! | Accidental SexinessAdrian Pasdar may be leaving Heroes (yes I'm devastated) but it won't keep the hunk from playing another hero. The 44-year-old will be a guest star on this week's episode of Cartoon Network's The Super Hero Squad Show as Marvel Comics' ... Continue reading
What should Adrian Pasdar's next project be? | EW.comAs my colleague Michael “The Master” Ausiello has reported, Adrian Pasdar is leaving Heroes. Which raises the question, what should he do next? I... Continue reading
TV Guide Magazine | News | Adrian Pasdar Gets Another Heroic GigAdrian Pasdar may be losing his Heroes gig, but he's not giving up the superhero business. Pasdar guest stars on this week's episode of Cartoon Network's The Super Hero Squad Show as Marvel Comics' super-archer Hawkeye (November 14, ... Continue reading
Adrian Pasdar: High Flier! Interview - Total Sci-FiThe Heroes actor on the ever-changing nature of Nathan Petrelli. Continue reading
Adrian Pasdar & Natalie Maines support the arts | Accidental SexinessAdrian Pasdar, his wife Natalie Maines, and their son Beckett Finn Pasdar attended the P.S. Arts Express Yourself 2009 at Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport in Santa Monica, California today. P.S. ARTS has been working to restore ... Continue reading
ohnotheydidnt: Adrian Pasdar is ace. Tim Kring is ass.Word that actor Adrian Pasdar is being written off Heroes has spread like wildfire over the Internet, but it really shouldn't have come as a shock. His character, Sen. Nathan Petrelli, was killed last spring, and it was just a matter of ... Continue reading
Tim Kring Addresses Adrian Pasdar Rumors, Heroes Death - TV FanaticYes, Adrian Pasdar is leaving Heroes. Tim Kring addresses the situation in a new interview. Continue reading
'Heroes' spoiler alert: The rumors are true | Ausiello | EW.comI wasn't planning to reveal this until after his swan song aired, but outside forces have, um, forced my hand. The rumors are true: Adrian Pasdar is le... Continue reading
Adrian Pasdar to leave Heroes News - Total Sci-FiAdrian Pasdar to leave Heroes. Adrian Pasdar, who plays Nathan Petrelli on Heroes, has reportedly been let go from the show. According to Entertainment Weekly, Pasdar discovered he was out of a job when he read the script featuring his ... Continue reading
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