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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 – Heroes Death Revealed » BSCreviewadrian-pasdar Lately, the web's been buzzing about the rumored major character death to occur on NBC's Heroes. Even though now many sources are 'confirming' the identity of character to bite the big one (again), it seems too late as the ... Continue reading
Adrian Pasdar leaving 'Heroes' | TVAUSCASTAdrian Pasdar leaving 'Heroes'. Confirming the rumours that began circulating last month, Adrian Pasdar has been let go from the NBC series. Adrian Pasdar. Adrian Pasdar is leaving sci-fi drama 'Heroes'. Rumours began circulating early ... Continue reading
Adrian Pasdar Leaving “Heroes” — Series Killing Off Nathan PetrelliSorry Heroes fans, it appears you'll be bidding farewell to one-half of the Petrelli Brothers before year's end. According to E!'s Kristin Dos Santos, Adrian. Continue reading
My Take about the Uncool News with Adrian Pasdar on “Heroes ...Okay, this is going to have a spoiler about Heroes - you've been warned. AVERT YOUR EYES. E! is reporting that the major death in Heroes this season will be. Continue reading
'Heroes' kills off Adrian Pasdar. Yeah, last seasonWe've been teased since early October about a major character death coming to NBC's "Heroes," and now reports are coming in that it'll be... Adrian Pasdar's Nathan Petrelli. The 23 of you who still watch will doubtless be scratching ... Continue reading
What should Adrian Pasdar's next project be?As my colleague Michael “The Master” Ausiello has reported, Adrian Pasdar is leaving Heroes. Which raises the question, what should he do next? I'd rather not see him stuck as a supporting player on another courtroom drama, ... Continue reading
Heroes Spoiler? Adrian Pasdar Killed Off HeroesHeroes fans may be pissed about the spoiler, but many aren't surprised by Adrian Pasdar being killed off – then again, his character already died last season and most expected he'd be gone by season's end anyway. ... Continue reading
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