Adrian Pasdar
Biography
Adrian Pasdar is an American actor who grew up in West Philadelphia and Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, and worked on sound and lighting for the People's Light and Theatre Company before training at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in New York City. At 19 he auditioned for Top Gun (1986), and director Tony Scott wrote the part of Chipper for him. Bigger roles came in Solarbabies (1986), Streets of Gold (1986) and Near Dark (1987), and he appeared in Vital Signs (1990) and Carlito's Way (1993). His television break was the title role of Profit in 1996; he later led Mysterious Ways and played Nathan Petrelli on Heroes, winning a Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in Television. He directed the feature Cement, voiced Iron Man in Marvel animation, played Alec Rybak on The Lying Game, and recurred as Glenn Talbot on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. from 2014 to 2018.
61years old
Turns 62 on April 30in 170 days
- Born Pittsfield
- Star sign: TaurusThe sign runs April 20 to May 20
- Adrian Kayvan Pasdar (birth name)
Movie Career
- Films
- 16
- Career span
- 38 years1986 to 2024
Genres
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Big break
Pasdar was 19 when he tried out for a role in Top Gun. Director Tony Scott was impressed enough to create the part of "Chipper" specifically for him.
Behind the camera
Pasdar made his feature directing debut with Cement in 1999, an art-house neo-noir that retold Othello. The independent film, which cost $1.7 million, took Best Picture honors at festivals.
A change of course
In 1992 Pasdar left Hollywood and went back to New York, where he worked as a cashier for room and board and took small parts now and then, including Frankie in Brian De Palma's Carlito's Way.
Adrian Pasdar movies on Netflix
Best known for
The films on Netflix they are best known for, with the part played in each.
- Iron Man and Captain America: Heroes United2014as Iron Man / Tony Starkvoice
IMDb rating 5.52.2K votes
Most often with
Leo Riley directed two of these films. Seven actors appear in two of them each. Pick a number on the chart or a name in the list to see the films they share.
Films together
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Leo RileyDirector, 2 films, 2013 to 2014
All films by Leo Riley
Also two films together1 more actor
- Liam O'BrienIron Man and Captain America: Heroes United (2014) and Iron Man & Hulk: Heroes United (2013)
When several people share the same number of films, the ones with the most films on Netflix are in the chart.
Box office
What Adrian Pasdar's films earned in cinemas worldwide.
Combined worldwide box office
$488 million
7 of the 16 films have a worldwide figure.
Of the 16 films: 7 worldwide figure; 2 us gross only; 5 never in cinemas; 2 figure not found.
- 7Worldwide figure
- 2US gross only
- 5Never in cinemas
- 2Figure not found
Top grosser
Highest grossing
The seven biggest films earned 100% of the total. The bars are drawn to scale.
- 1$357M73.1% of the total
- 2$64M13.1% of the total
- 3$48M9.9% of the total
- 4$13M2.6% of the total
- 5$3.4M0.7% of the total
- 6$1.9M0.4% of the total
- 7$1.6M0.3% of the total
Online
Official profiles and reference pages.