Adrian Kayvan Pasdar is an American actor and film director.
Pasdar was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Pasdar graduated from Marple Newtown Senior High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, and then received a football scholarship to the University of Florida to play linebacker. 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, at which time he had to finish his freshman year while undergoing intensive physical therapy.
Pasdar turned his attention to campus stage productions and rediscovered an early interest in writing and acting. Pasdar was also selected to play a bit part as a police officer in the Dixie Chicks video for their song, "Goodbye Earl". The music video won both the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association's Video of the Year Awards in 2000.
At the age of 19, he auditioned for a role in Top Gun. 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. Pasdar's major break into television came in 1996, when he was cast as the title character on the short-lived but critically-acclaimed Fox series Profit. Most recently, he starred as Nathan Petrelli in the NBC superhero drama Heroes. Pasdar also voices Hawkeye in the animated series The Super Hero Squad Show. He also voiced Captain America in the Black Panther animated series.
Anamarie "Pink" Pasdar is the younger sister of Adrian Pasdar. She appeared in the Mysterious Ways episode "Handshake". 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.
He 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. He also has a tattoo of the Chinese character for Strength, which he got while filming Shanghai 1920.
Pasdar is a guitarist for charity rock band Band From TV. Part of the proceeds from the band's concerts go to his nominated charity, the Rush Epilepsy Center.
Pasdar was arrested on January 27, 2010 on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.