Chances are if you've opened TikTok or Instagram in the last few months, you'll have come across a swoony video of Pedro Pascal.
The Chilean-American actor has been capturing the hearts of well everyone, it seems that no one is immune to his charms.
And why would you want to be? The man is hot. There, I said it and to be fair writing this will probably be the highlight of my career but anyway moving along swiftly.
From his scene-stealing performances as Joel in The Last Of Us to playing an unwitting parent to Grogu (better known as baby Yoda) in The Mandalorian, side note that's not the plot of the show but it basically is, no one can escape Pedro.
But with this man comes questions, like how did he end up becoming such a big star seemingly out of nowhere, is he really dating Jennifer Aniston, and what's this about him being a gogo dancer in Madrid?
Well, don't worry we have done the very, ahem, difficult job of digging through all the information out there about the actor for you to read in one handy article. Isn't that good of us?
Who is Pedro Pascal?
To start that's not even his full name, the real thing is more of a mouthful but it's really hot to hear him say it, José Pedro Balmaceda Pascal. But for the sake of ease, we'll just be calling him Pedro.
Born in Santiago, Chile, in 1975 to child psychologist Verónica Pascal Ureta and doctor José Balmaceda Riera, his parents were very much against the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship in the country at the time.
So much so that nine months after he was born they sought refuge in the Venezuelan embassy in Santiago, later being granted political asylum in Denmark.
The 48-year-old is one of four children. He has an older sister called Javiera, and two young siblings, a brother called Nicolás and sister Lux, who came out as transgender in 2021 and works as an actress and transgender activist.
From here the family found themselves moving around from Denmark to the US living in both Orange County in California and San Antonio, Texas.
He went on to study acting at the Orange County School of Arts, graduating in 1993 and then undertook a further course at New York University's Tisch School of Arts which he graduated from in 1997.
Somewhere in between all his schooling on the art of acting he also worked as a gogo dancer in the Madrid night scene in 1996, wearing crop tops and platform runners to get clubbers going.
After his father ran into some legal trouble in relation to a fertility clinic in 1995 his family returned to Chile. After his mother committed suicide in 1999, he began to use her surname professionally in her honour and because he believed Americans struggled to pronounce Balmaceda.
Is he single?
As of right now, it seems that he is single, though there were rumours in the past that he had a thing for fellow actor Sarah Paulson, who is in a long-term relationship with Holland Taylor.
Most recently, Pedro was linked with none other than Friends superstar Jennifer Anison when they were snapped out for dinner in West Hollywood.
Jennifer Aniston and Pedro Pascal spark romance rumors with three-hour dinner https://t.co/XPj89zbWbO pic.twitter.com/67VyKlg9eU
— Page Six (@PageSix) March 24, 2025
A photo of them outside the Sunset Tower Hotel with friends went viral online and while the internet did not see this apparent pairing coming, we're all very much here for it.
The self-declared 'Daddy of the internet' has also previously had romantic links to some of his co-stars including Maria Dizzia, who he worked alongside on Law And Order, and Cersei Lannister actress Lena Headey.
Sarah Paulson kept him fed
We've all heard the stories of struggling actors in Hollywood but rarely do you hear one as heartwarming as Pedro and Sarah in their early days.
While the blonde beauty started taking off with a number of roles in the early 2000s before her breakthrough in American Horror Story in 2012, it took Pedro until recently to become a household name.
But just because Sarah was on the right path didn't mean she was going to forget her long-time friend and in a recent interview with Esquire she said she gave him money to 'feed himself.'
'He's talked about this publicly, but there were times when I would give him my per diem from a job I was working on so that he could have money to feed himself,' she said.
Well, now that Pedro is doing quite well for himself he better take his old friend out for a fancy dinner to say thank you!
Where do I know him from?
If you're a big Buffy The Vampire Slayer you may recognise him from a one-off appearance he made. Sarah-Michelle Geller just happened to give him a full-blown shout-out on social media recently.
Other than that absolute gem of a show, he has graced our screens in other programmes such as The Good Wife, Homeland, Graceland, and Law and Order, two different types of that series to be exact, honestly, the list goes on and on.
But the one that really got him on our radar was his role in Game Of Thrones as Oberyn Martell, the bisexual prince who met an untimely end when his head was popped like a pimple.
Thankfully we didn't have to wait too long for him to provide us with new content as he earned himself a role in the Netflix hit Narcos, where in starred as the impossibly tight jean-wearing DEA agent Javier Pena.
And yes his jeans were that tight you could basically read his credit card number, not that any of us are complaining.
Oh, and how can we forget his stunning work in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, as Agent Whiskey. Don't lie, you've seen the edits of him asking Halle Berry's character and we quote 'How would you like to ride home on a real cowboy? I've got a six-pack of cold ones all nice and my roomie's out all night so you can scream my name as loud as you need to sugar.'
The Last Of Us
The Last Of Us is a nine-part series set in 2023 and follows the story of a man called Joel, played by Pedro, as he is tasked with smuggling a teenager called Ellie across a post-apocalyptic United States.
The world has been ravaged by a fungal infestation of the brain, reducing humans to violent and fatally dangerous hosts. When Ellie doesn’t show any symptoms of being infected, doctors believe she may hold the cure to the horrific plague.
If that doesn't sell it to you the Chilean man is running around looking all roughed up with his grey hair and rifle slung over his shoulder.
