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Early years

Pasdar was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. He is of Iranian and German heritage. His father, Homayoun 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. Pittsfield redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Former German name of the city of Kaliningrad. ...

Pasdar won a football scholarship to the University of Central Florida to play linebacker[3]. 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 New York. UCF redirects here. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... Lee Strasberg (November 17, 1901 – February 17, 1982) was an American director, actor, producer, and acting teacher. ...

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). Pasdar got his biggest break in movies, when he starred as a beautiful woman opposite Julie Walters in the British movie Just Like A Woman. 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). Top Gun is a 1986 American film directed by Tony Scott and produced by Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer in association with Paramount Pictures. ... Anthony D. L. Tony Scott (born July 21, 1944) is a British film director. ... Solarbabies, also known as Solarwarriors, was released in November 1986. ... Streets of Gold is 1986 drama movie about a Jewish boxer who named Alik. ... ARSE FACE!(born 27 November 1951) is an American film director. ... Near Dark (1987) is a vampire Western film, written by Eric Red and Kathryn Bigelow, and directed by Bigelow. ... Julia Mary Walters, OBE (born February 22, 1950) is an English Golden Globe-winning actress. ... British film by Christopher Monger (1992) starring Julie Walters, Adrian Pasdar and Paul Freeman. ... Brian De Palma (born Brian Russell DePalma on September 11, 1940 in Newark, New Jersey) is a controversial American film director, best known for directing the Al Pacino classic Scarface, and the Academy Award-winning The Untouchables. ... Carlitos Way is a 1993 gangster film based on the novels Carlitos Way and After Hours by Judge Edwin Torres. ...

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. U.S. theatrical release poster for German New Wave director Werner Herzogs 1973 drama Aguirre: The Wrath of God An art film (also called an “art cinema”, “art movie”, or in the US, an independent film or “art house film”) is a typically serious, noncommercial, independently made film that... Neo-noir (a portmanteau of the Greek neo, new; and the French noir, black) is a type of motion picture that prominently utilizes elements of film noir, but with updated themes, content, style or visual elements that were absent in films noir of the 1940s and 50s. ... Cement is the 1999 debut feature film as director by Adrian Pasdar. ... For other uses, see Othello (disambiguation). ... Christopher Shannon Penn (October 10, 1965 – January 24, 2006) was an American film actor. ... Jeffrey Wright (born December 7, 1965) is a Tony Award-, Emmy Award-, and Golden Globe Award-winning American film and stage actor. ... Sherilyn Fenn (born Sheryl Ann Fenn[1] on February 1, 1965 in Detroit, Michigan) is an Emmy and Golden Globe award nominated American actress and filmmaker, best known for playing Audrey Horne on the cult TV series Twin Peaks, for her roles in Ruby, Of Mice and Men, Boxing Helena... Henry Czerny(Chur-nee) (born February 1959) is an actor, born to Polish parents in Toronto, Canada. ... Farscape (1999–2003) is a science fiction television series, featuring a present-day astronaut who accidentally travels through a wormhole to a distant part of the galaxy. ... Justin Monjo is an Australian screenwriter, television producer, and actor, best known for his work on Farscape. ...

Cement is the 1999 debut feature film as director by Adrian Pasdar. ...

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. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Cast of Mysterious Ways Mysterious Ways was a Canadian/American television drama series that first aired in 2000. ... In computer security, PaX is a patch for the Linux kernel that implements least privilege protections for memory pages. ...

Pasdar played David McClaren in the final two seasons of the long-running CBS drama Judging Amy, from 2003 through 2005. In 2006, he had a high-profile guest role as Gabrielle Solis's sleazy lawyer in Desperate Housewives. This article is about the broadcast network. ... Judging Amy is an American television drama that aired from September 19, 1999 until May 3, 2005 on CBS. The show stars Amy Brenneman of NYPD Blue and Tyne Daly of Cagney & Lacey. ... Gabrielle Solis (née Marquez, currently Lang) (born February 11, 1976) is a fictional character on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives. ... Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios - The Walt Disney Companys main television studio - and Cherry Productions. ...

He currently stars in the NBC superhero drama Heroes as Nathan Petrelli. He bases his mysterious character on "the most morally liquid characters" that he's encountered in his life. The character is not based on one particular political figure, but on a conglomerate of different ones, both good and bad.^[2] Heroes is an American science fiction serial drama television series created by Tim Kring. ... Nathan Petrelli, portrayed by Adrian Pasdar, is a fictional character on the NBC science fiction drama series Heroes. ...

Marriage and family

Anamarie "Pink" Pasdar is the younger sister of Adrian Pasdar. She appeared in the Mysterious Ways episode Handshake^[3]. She is the Associate Artistic Director at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Pasdar married lead singer Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks in June 2000. The couple first met in May 1999, with Maines as a bridesmaid to her bandmate Emily Robison and Pasdar as a groomsman to his friend 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, California and Austin, Texas. Natalie Louise Maines Pasdar (born October 14, 1974) is an American singer and songwriter who achieved success as the lead vocalist for the female country music band Dixie Chicks. ... The Dixie Chicks are a country/rock music trio from the United States comprising Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines. ... Emily Erwin, also known as Emily Robison, (born August 16, 1972) is a country songwriter, recording artist and musician, born and currently residing in Dallas, Texas. ... Charlie Robison (born September 1, 1964) is an American singer/songwriter born in Houston, Texas and raised in Bandera, Texas. ... The Little White Wedding Chapel on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada has been the site of many quickie celebrity weddings. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County. ...

Awards & nominations

• 2000: Grand Remi Award (WorldFest-Houston International Film Festival): Cement ^[4]
• 2000: AngelCiti film festival: Audience Award, Cement

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Selected filmography (as actor)

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Filmography (as director)

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Interesting Facts

• His film company is Bobcat Films. He has a Bobcat tattoo on his upper right arm.
• He played football for one season for the Florida Gators
• He also has a tattoo of the Chinese character for Strength, which he got while filming Shanghai 1920 (上海1920, Shang Hai yi jiu er ling) (1991).^{[citation needed]}
• He also has a tattoo of an anchor on his arm. His children's names are written on it. It symbolizes that his family is his anchor and support in life.^{[citation needed]}

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References

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Bibliography

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External links

• Adrian Pasdar at the Internet Movie Database
• Adrian Pasdar's YouTube site
• Adrian Pasdar at Yahoo!Movie
• Adrian Pasdar VS Kyle MacLachlan: Battle of the Fortress-Chinned Weirdmeisters
• Heroes Season Finale: Adrian Pasdar
• Heroes Gallery: Adrian Pasdar as Nathan Petrelli
• Heroes Gallery: Adrian Pasdar (Before Heroes)
• The Vanishing Tattoo: Adrian Pasdar's Tattoos
• Adrian Pasdar Tribute Site