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With athletic good looks and a sexy but mysterious air,
this former college football player has a love-hate
relationship with Hollywood. Although he made his film
debut in the 1986 blockbuster Top Gun, his
breakout role came a year later as a reluctant vampire
in the indie flick Near Dark. Able to embody sexy
and scary simultaneously, Pasdar seemed poised to join
the ranks of '80s leading men such as Jason Patric and
Kiefer Sutherland. Instead, the rebel player quit the
biz for two years. In the '90s he came back, turning in
a string of solid supporting performances in mostly
forgettable films and TV-movies, which prompted him to
quit a second time. (During his hiatus he worked the
register in a diner.) But performing won out in the end
and when Pasdar returned, he turned to the small screen
for meaty parts, winning kudos (if not viewers) as the
corrupt title character in the short-lived 1996 series
Profit. His marriage to Dixie Chick Natalie
Maines and a recurring role on Judging Amy as a
dangerous love interest for the title character raised
his profile in the 2000s, and suddenly the veteran actor
was enjoying name recognition for the first time in his
spotty career. His career skyrocketed, however, when, in
2006, he took on the role of high-flying politician
Nathan Petrelli in the NBC smash hit Heroes.
Adrian Pasdar Fast Facts:
- His promising football career was derailed after
he was injured in a car accident at age 19.
- Married Dixie Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines
in a $55 Las Vegas wedding; appeared in the group's
2000 music video Goodbye Earl.
Adrian Pasdar Relationships:
- Natalie Maines - Wife
- Cecilia Peck - Ex-significant Other
- Anamarie Pasdar - Sister
- Beckett Finn Pasdar - Son
- Rosemarie Pasdar - Mother
- Homayoon Pasdar - Father
- Jackson Slade Pasdar - Son
- College:
- Attended University of Central Florida, Orlando,
FL; Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York, NY
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