{"id":19738,"date":"2023-04-06T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/?p=19738"},"modified":"2023-04-06T11:15:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T19:15:41","slug":"pedro-pascal-daddy-of-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/pedro-pascal-daddy-of-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro Pascal, daddy of all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Written by: Gretchen Sims<\/span><\/p>\n

By now, the entirety of the internet is aware that Pedro Pascal has been appointed the daddy of the internet. From memes to interviews, Pedro Pascal has seemingly appeared out of nowhere to grace his fandom with wild performances and out-of-pocket comments. Where has this daddy-ness come from? And why has Pedro Pascal gained so many children seemingly overnight?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pascal has been in the acting business for quite some time now. Jos\u00e9 Pedro Balmaceda Pascal was born in Chile in 1975 and worked small acting gigs for nearly two decades before rising to stardom with his portrayal of Oberyn Martell in \u201cGame of Thrones.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Pascal also amassed fame for his role in the Netflix series \u201cNarcos\u201d before taking on his most popular roles as the Mandalorian in \u201cThe Mandalorian\u201d and \u201cThe Book of Boba Fett,\u201d as well as Joel Miller in \u201cThe Last of Us.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Pascal, his parents Ver\u00f3nica Pascal Ureta and Jos\u00e9 Balmaceda Riera, were devout followers of the socialist president, Salvador Allende. Their activity in the resistance against Augusto Pinochet\u2019s dictatorship led Pascal\u2019s family to flee Chile when Pedro was just nine months old. Ultimately the Balmaceda\u2019s would end up in Orange County, California.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pascal was a competitive swimmer before he developed a love for acting and ended up attending the Orange County School of the Arts where he graduated from in 1993. Afterwards, he continued his education at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts \u2014 graduating in 1997 \u2014 to begin his acting career.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1995, Pascal\u2019s father was indicted by a federal grand jury due to a scandal at the fertility clinic he was employed at. Shortly after, the rest of Pascal\u2019s family returned to Chile where his mother ended up committing suicide in 1999 \u2014 Pascal was his mother\u2019s family name that Pedro took on professionally to honor her.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Early on, Pascal worked smaller gigs in well known TV franchises such as \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer,\u201d \u201cThe Mentalist,\u201d \u201cLaw & Order: Criminal Intent,\u201d Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,\u201d \u201cThe Good Wife,\u201d \u201cHomeland\u201d and \u201cGraceland,\u201d before making his big break in \u201cGame of Thrones.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Besides acting, Pascal has written and produced works as well. He even performed on Broadway \u2014 debuting in \u201cKing Lear\u201d in Feb. 2019.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the end, his charismatic personality and ability to maintain relevance among younger generations \u2014 despite his age \u2014 has made audiences everywhere fall in love with him, waiting to see what he will do next.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Contact the author at howlentertainment@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1094,"featured_media":19739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}