Adrian Kayvan Pasdar (; born April 30, 1965) is an American actor. He is known for his roles in Profit, Near Dark, Carlito's Way, Mysterious Ways, Desperate Housewives, Burn Notice, Heroes and as Glenn Talbot / Graviton on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.. Additionally, he directed the feature film Cement. He is also known as the voice of Tony Stark / Iron Man in Marvel Anime, as well as in the animated series Ultimate Spider-Man, Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., Phineas and Ferb: Mission Marvel, and Avengers Assemble, and in the Lego Marvel Super Heroes and Disney Infinity videogames. He also played district attorney Alec Rybak on The Lying Game. He has appeared on the American TV drama Grand Hotel as Felix.

Early life Pasdar was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. His father, Homayoon Pasdar (; born 1935), was an Iranian-American cardiac surgeon, with a practice near Philadelphia. His mother, Rosemarie Sbresn, who immigrated from Germany, worked as a travel agent. Source notes that some sources gives birth year as 1967. Pasdar grew up in West Philadelphia, which he described as primarily Black. His family later moved to Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Marple Newtown High School, where he went by his middle name Kayvan and where he played football and studied acting.Rys, Richard. "Exit Interview: Adrian Pasdar," Phillymag.com (June 19, 2007). Pasdar attended the University of Florida on a football scholarship, turning to acting after an injury.

His sister, Anamarie Pasdar, is a theatrical artistic director and producer.

Career Early career Pasdar turned his attention to campus stage productions and rediscovered an early 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. There, he worked on sound and lighting as part of the stage crew responsible for set construction. He had a painful accident on the set, cutting off the end of his left thumb. His resulting medical compensation paid for attendance at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York City.

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.

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 cult vampire movie Near Dark (1987), with Pasdar in the lead role of Caleb Colton. His 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).

Adrian Pasdar wrote and directed the short film Beyond Belief and directed his first feature film, the art-house neo-noir Cement, a contemporary retelling 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, and Henry Czerny, and was written by Farscape screenwriter Justin Monjo. "I've used every ounce of energy and every drop of money I had to make Cement," Pasdar said.

Television Pasdar's major break into television came in 1996, when he was cast as the title character on the Fox series Profit. He also guest-starred in the two-hour season finale of the fourth season of Touched by an Angel. From 2000 to 2002, Pasdar played the lead role of anthropology Professor Declan Dunn in the spooky cult drama series Mysterious Ways on PAX.

Pasdar played David McClaren in the final two seasons of the 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.

He starred as Nathan Petrelli in the NBC superhero drama Heroes. Pasdar based 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 melange of different ones, both good and bad. Pasdar's character was killed off in an episode that aired November 30, 2009.

Pasdar voices Hawkeye in the animated series The Super Hero Squad Show and voiced Captain America in the Black Panther animated series. Having also voiced Iron Man in the English dub of the Iron Man anime series, Pasdar reprised the role in Marvel's Avengers Assemble (seasons 1–3), Ultimate Spider-Man, and Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H..

Pasdar also played a role on The Lying Game as Alec Rybak, a corrupt district attorney. In 2013, Pasdar guest-starred in the seventh and final season of Burn Notice as Randall Burke for three episodes. From 2014 to 2018, he played the recurring role of Glenn Talbot / Graviton on the Marvel TV series Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and from 2016 to 2017, recurred as Nolan Burgess on the series Colony. He also starred in the pilot of the Amazon Studios series The After. He also portrays the DC Comics character Morgan Edge in season 3 of The CW's Supergirl.

Personal life Pasdar married musician Natalie Maines of The Chicks on June 24, 2000. They have two sons, born in 2001 and 2004. On July 5, 2017, Maines announced that she and Pasdar were divorcing after 17 years of marriage. The divorce was finalized on December 19, 2019.

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.

Awards and nominations Acting

2009: Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films: Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in Television, Heroes

Directing

2000: AngelCiti film festival: Audience Award, Cement

Other

2009 (ensemble): Hollywood Note Foundation's Change the World Awards, Humanitarian Award of Inspiration: Band From TV

Filmography Year Title Role Other notes 1986 Top Gun Lieutenant Charles 'Chipper' Piper Film Debut Solarbabies Darstar Streets of Gold Timmy Boyle 1987 Made in U.S.A. Dar Near Dark Caleb Colton 1989 Cookie Vito 1990 Torn Apart Ben Arnon Vital Signs Michael Chatham 1991 Shanghai 1920 Dawson Cole Grand Isle Robert Lebrun 1992 Just Like a Woman Gerald Tilson / Geraldine 1993 Ghost Brigade Captain John Harling Carlito's Way Frankie Taglialucci 1994 The Last Good Time Eddie 1995 Slave of Dreams Joseph A Mother's Gift William Deal 1996 The Pompatus of Love Josh 1997 Wounded Hanaghan Love in Another Town Jake Cantrell 2003 Secondhand Lions Traveling Salesman 2008 Home Movie David Poe 2013Lego Marvel Super Heroes: Maximum OverloadTony Stark / Iron ManShort film A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information. Iron Man & Captain America: Heroes United Voice 2020 A Fall from GraceProsecutor Bradley Tankerton 2021 The Manson Brothers Midnight Zombie Massacre Doctor Dudembru 2024 The Exorcism Tom

Television +YearTitleRoleNotes1990The Lost CaponeRicard Hart / Jimmy CaponeTelevision film1994Shadows of DesireJude Snow1996ProfitJim Profit1997FedsC. Oliver ResorMiniseriesTouched By EvilJerry BraskinTelevision filmHouse of Frankenstein 1997Detective Vernon Coyle1998The Outer LimitsTanner BrooksEpisode: "In the Zone"Touched by an AngelEdward Tanner2 episodesThe Perfect GetawayColt EricksonTelevision film1999MutinyLieutenant Maravich2000–2002Mysterious WaysDeclan Dunn2002The Twilight ZoneAndrew LomaxEpisode: "Dream Lover" 2003–2005Judging AmyDavid McClarenSeasons 5-62005Desperate HousewivesDavid Bradley3 episodes2006–2009HeroesNathan Petrelli2009The Super Hero Squad ShowClint Barton / HawkeyeVoice, 3 episodes2010Black PantherSteve Rogers / Captain AmericaVoice, pilot2010–2011Marvel Anime: Iron ManTony Stark / Iron ManEnglish Dub2011CastleMark Fallon2 episodesLaw & Order: Criminal IntentMason KentEpisode: "Trophy Wine"2011–2012Young JusticeHugo Strange, National Guardsman #1Voice, 2 episodes2011–2013The Lying GameAlec Rybak29 episodes2012Chasing LeprechaunsMichael GarrettTelevision filmPolitical AnimalsPresident Paul GarcettiMiniseries2012–2017Ultimate Spider-ManTony Stark / Iron ManVoice, 9 episodes2013Phineas and Ferb: Mission MarvelTelevision specialBurn NoticeRandall Burke4 episodes2013–2015Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H.Tony Stark / Iron ManSeasons 4-52013–2017Avengers AssembleTony Stark / Iron Man / Iron Patriot, Bruto, WWII Soldier #3Seasons 1–32014–2018Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.Glenn Talbot / Graviton24 episodes2015–2017Transformers: Robots in DisguiseMicronus PrimeVoice, 3 episodes2016–2017ColonyNolan Burgess10 episodes2016–2019Milo Murphy's LawMr. ChaseVoice, 4 episodes2017–2018SupergirlMorgan Edge4 episodes2017Lethal WeaponDan Cooper2 episodes 2019Grand HotelFelix3 episodes2022The Rookie Bill AugustEpisode: "Enervo"2023PlutoBrandoEnglish dub

Director Year Title Other notes 1999 Cement Also co-producer and composer

Video games +YearTitleRole2013Lego Marvel Super HeroesTony Stark/Iron Man2015Disney Infinity 3.0

Audiobook narration In 2010, Pasdar narrated an audiobook edition of the cult novel Queer Fish in God's Waiting Room by the British writer Lee Henshaw. It was released in early 2011.

Further reading

Adrienne Papp. "Heroes Among Us". Westside Today. Retrieved on May 5, 2008.

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