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Adrian Pasdar
Real Name: ADRIAN K. PASDAR
Born: April 30, 1965
FAMILY
Wife: NATALIE MAINES She is the lead singer for country group The Dixie Chicks. They were wed 6/24/00 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Children: Son, JACKSON SLADE PASDAR [to be called Slade]. Born March 15, 2001 [9:57 am] at Seton Medical Center, Austin, Texas; 6 lbs. 20".
Son, BECKETT FINN. Born July 14, 2004
Father: HOMAYOON PASDAR Born in Tehran, Iran. He is a cardiothoracic surgeon at a hospital 15 miles west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mother: ROSEMARIE (SBRESNY) Born in Konigsberg, Germany. A former nurse and writer turned Francophile who lived and taught English in southwest France, she has owned a travel agency since 1991 that deals totally with travels to France. She is, after many years living in France, living 15 miles west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Adrian’s parents were divorced when he was 8 years old.)
Sister: ANAMARIE PASDAR Anamarie is eight years younger than Adrian. Graduate of Baldwin School (Bryn Mawr, PA, a prestigious Main Line girls’ school.) She lives in New York City. At 22 years old she was an artistic director/associate producer with New York’s SoHo Rep Theater Company. Adrian has said of her, "I had to fight hard for everything. She’s a genius. When I was 22, I couldn’t even find my socks!"
PETS Dog MARLEY (a straffordshire terrier,Adrian’s), RALPH (a bulldog Adrian bought for Natalie), MABLE (a yellow labador), STELLA (a pig).
HISTORY
Born in Pittsfield, MA, Adrian moved to 39th and Powelton in Philadelphia, PA at age 2. (This is near the Drexel University area.) At age 8 he moved 15 miles west to Philadelphia’s suburbs, in Broomall, Pennsylvania.
At Marple Newtown High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (graduated 1983), Adrian was active in football, where he played defensive back at 5’11", 206 lb., track, soccer, and of course, acting. His senior year he did BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. (Even then his talent was striking!)
Although generally a good student, he cut classes, got caught smoking cigarettes, and at 15 was arrested for "borrowing" a neighbor’s car, which was smashed and totaled. (The charges were dropped when he paid for the car by working various jobs.)
Adrian was straightened out by his father, whom he idolizes, and his football coach, who "taught me discipline and a sense of structure in life. He helped me to be focused and responsive about daily activities. Football is one of the main things I can look back on with pride."
After high school graduation Adrian won a football scholarship to the University of Central Florida. After the first football game, he flipped his jeep on a rain-slickened highway one night on the way to Miami. He took out the windshield with his face. Legs badly mangled, the medics told Pasdar that he would walk with a pronounced limp-that is, if he were to walk again at all.
Between intensive physical therapy and rehabilitation sessions, he finished out his freshman year in a wheelchair. His athletic career over, the English major turned to campus stage productions and rediscovered the joys of acting and writing that had been a major part of his childhood. (Adrian had written plays that childhood friends played in) He left school at the end of his freshman year because he could no longer play football. "I regret missing school. The only education I’ve had is through films I have done. It’s half the reason that I do what I do, what I can learn from the places and the people."
Coming back home, Adrian got an internship at a nearby theater group, PEOPLE’S LIGHT AND THEATER COMPANY in Malvern, PA. He was a "tech resident," constructing sets and working on sound and lighting. One day while building a set, he cut off the end of his thumb. [Adrian tends to be quite "accident prone." While filming STREETS OF GOLD, during a fight scene, "I opened my mouth to breathe, and I got clocked and dislocated my jaw." Also during A MOTHER’S GIFT, he took a hard, planned fall from a horse, but broke his collarbone when he landed wrong.] Adrian took the worker’s compensation payments and went to New York to study at the famed Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
A few months later, at the age of 19, Adrian had his first acting part in TOP GUN. A steady girlfriend for two years was Cecilia Peck, actor Gregory Peck’s daughter and costar in Adrian’s TORN APART. Although living in Los Angeles, while doing a play in Pennsylvania in 1989, Adrian mentioned how much he missed the changing color of the trees and snow.
After several movies he met German director Wim Wenders at the Cannes
Film Festival. "Inspired by Wenders’ WING OF DESIRE, Pasdar packed up his belongings and spent a year commuting between Berlin and Paris ’hanging out late at cafes and getting up early to write and cook.’" (Steven Spielberg optioned the screenplay/novel that Adrian wrote, however, nothing was ever made from it.)
Refreshed, he headed straight to Los Angeles to do another half-dozen small films. He had made plenty of money but hated the Hollywood lifestyle. "I had gotten so out of touch with reality that one day in 1992," Pasdar said "I just sold my house at a $200,000.00 loss, moved back East, and put my money into T-bills. I spent the next year working behind the counter and running the cash register for room and board at Vandam Diner, a little lower east Manhattan diner, owned by a friend’s father."
Adrian quit his job when PROFIT came along. Well read, he counts among his favorite books, John Fante’s ASK THE DUST, William Burrough’s NAKED LUNCH, and authors J.G. Ballad, Jim Thompson, and Milan Kundera. He hopes that his future includes adapting some short stories by Flannery O’Connor for the screen and appearing in a biography of poet and journalist, James Agee.
His hobbies include skydiving, smoking Malboro cigarettes, drinking Johnny
Walker Red, riding a Harley, playing chess, and sporting a Bobcat head tattoo on his upper right arm. (His film company is named Bobcat Films.) He also got another tattoo below his bobcat head while filming the movie SHANGHAI 1920- the Chinese symbol for "strength." In 2003 Adrian added a new tattoo, "Natalie," on his left upper arm.
Adrian wrote a short film called BEYOND BELIEF. It was also Adrian’s directing debut. Declared "a dazzling tone-poem, as original and accomplished as short-film making gets," it debuted at East Hamptons Film Festival in October 1995. BEYOND BELIEF received a Finalist Award at the Houston Film Festival in June 1996. It has been shown on Robert Redford’s Independent Film Network. BEYOND BELIEF is the "story of a lost soul visited by his guardian angel on the last day of his life."
Adrian has finished directing and co-producing CEMENT. Winning the Grand Prize for Best Film at Worldfest-Houston Film Festival, the movie was released 2003. As his feature film directorial debut, Adrian chose Justin Mongo’s "crisply written thriller." Adrian has also directed three music videos, one for Paula Abdul in 1997 and "My Hometown" and "Bar Light Bar Bright" in 1999 for country singer songwriter, Charlie Robison.
Besides the award for BEYOND BELIEF, Adrian was nominated for 1996’s Petcabus Award for "Best Actor in a Drama series" for "Profit." He has one audio book to his credit: UNFINISHED LIVES 2: MONTGOMERY CLIFF. [Dove Books] Adrian has done stage plays including "The Glass Menagerie." (Adrian says this "has always been one of my favorites.") He has also done some off-Broadway work: "On The Waterfront," "Monkey’s Paw," "Malek’s
Dependence," "Cold Foot,"and "Aven’ U Boys" for which he won rave reviews. He has also appeared in plays in Los Angeles: " Love Letters" and "The Secret Sits In The Middle." Besides his film work, Adrian has been featured in several TV series: PROFIT, FEDS, MYSTERIOUS WAYS, and JUDGING AMY.
Adrian and his family live outside Austin, Texas.
Born: April 30, 1965
FAMILY
Wife: NATALIE MAINES She is the lead singer for country group The Dixie Chicks. They were wed 6/24/00 in Las Vegas, Nevada
Children: Son, JACKSON SLADE PASDAR [to be called Slade]. Born March 15, 2001 [9:57 am] at Seton Medical Center, Austin, Texas; 6 lbs. 20".
Son, BECKETT FINN. Born July 14, 2004
Father: HOMAYOON PASDAR Born in Tehran, Iran. He is a cardiothoracic surgeon at a hospital 15 miles west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Mother: ROSEMARIE (SBRESNY) Born in Konigsberg, Germany. A former nurse and writer turned Francophile who lived and taught English in southwest France, she has owned a travel agency since 1991 that deals totally with travels to France. She is, after many years living in France, living 15 miles west of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Adrian’s parents were divorced when he was 8 years old.)
Sister: ANAMARIE PASDAR Anamarie is eight years younger than Adrian. Graduate of Baldwin School (Bryn Mawr, PA, a prestigious Main Line girls’ school.) She lives in New York City. At 22 years old she was an artistic director/associate producer with New York’s SoHo Rep Theater Company. Adrian has said of her, "I had to fight hard for everything. She’s a genius. When I was 22, I couldn’t even find my socks!"
PETS Dog MARLEY (a straffordshire terrier,Adrian’s), RALPH (a bulldog Adrian bought for Natalie), MABLE (a yellow labador), STELLA (a pig).
HISTORY
Born in Pittsfield, MA, Adrian moved to 39th and Powelton in Philadelphia, PA at age 2. (This is near the Drexel University area.) At age 8 he moved 15 miles west to Philadelphia’s suburbs, in Broomall, Pennsylvania.
At Marple Newtown High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania (graduated 1983), Adrian was active in football, where he played defensive back at 5’11", 206 lb., track, soccer, and of course, acting. His senior year he did BAREFOOT IN THE PARK. (Even then his talent was striking!)
Although generally a good student, he cut classes, got caught smoking cigarettes, and at 15 was arrested for "borrowing" a neighbor’s car, which was smashed and totaled. (The charges were dropped when he paid for the car by working various jobs.)
Adrian was straightened out by his father, whom he idolizes, and his football coach, who "taught me discipline and a sense of structure in life. He helped me to be focused and responsive about daily activities. Football is one of the main things I can look back on with pride."
After high school graduation Adrian won a football scholarship to the University of Central Florida. After the first football game, he flipped his jeep on a rain-slickened highway one night on the way to Miami. He took out the windshield with his face. Legs badly mangled, the medics told Pasdar that he would walk with a pronounced limp-that is, if he were to walk again at all.
Between intensive physical therapy and rehabilitation sessions, he finished out his freshman year in a wheelchair. His athletic career over, the English major turned to campus stage productions and rediscovered the joys of acting and writing that had been a major part of his childhood. (Adrian had written plays that childhood friends played in) He left school at the end of his freshman year because he could no longer play football. "I regret missing school. The only education I’ve had is through films I have done. It’s half the reason that I do what I do, what I can learn from the places and the people."
Coming back home, Adrian got an internship at a nearby theater group, PEOPLE’S LIGHT AND THEATER COMPANY in Malvern, PA. He was a "tech resident," constructing sets and working on sound and lighting. One day while building a set, he cut off the end of his thumb. [Adrian tends to be quite "accident prone." While filming STREETS OF GOLD, during a fight scene, "I opened my mouth to breathe, and I got clocked and dislocated my jaw." Also during A MOTHER’S GIFT, he took a hard, planned fall from a horse, but broke his collarbone when he landed wrong.] Adrian took the worker’s compensation payments and went to New York to study at the famed Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
A few months later, at the age of 19, Adrian had his first acting part in TOP GUN. A steady girlfriend for two years was Cecilia Peck, actor Gregory Peck’s daughter and costar in Adrian’s TORN APART. Although living in Los Angeles, while doing a play in Pennsylvania in 1989, Adrian mentioned how much he missed the changing color of the trees and snow.
After several movies he met German director Wim Wenders at the Cannes
Film Festival. "Inspired by Wenders’ WING OF DESIRE, Pasdar packed up his belongings and spent a year commuting between Berlin and Paris ’hanging out late at cafes and getting up early to write and cook.’" (Steven Spielberg optioned the screenplay/novel that Adrian wrote, however, nothing was ever made from it.)
Refreshed, he headed straight to Los Angeles to do another half-dozen small films. He had made plenty of money but hated the Hollywood lifestyle. "I had gotten so out of touch with reality that one day in 1992," Pasdar said "I just sold my house at a $200,000.00 loss, moved back East, and put my money into T-bills. I spent the next year working behind the counter and running the cash register for room and board at Vandam Diner, a little lower east Manhattan diner, owned by a friend’s father."
Adrian quit his job when PROFIT came along. Well read, he counts among his favorite books, John Fante’s ASK THE DUST, William Burrough’s NAKED LUNCH, and authors J.G. Ballad, Jim Thompson, and Milan Kundera. He hopes that his future includes adapting some short stories by Flannery O’Connor for the screen and appearing in a biography of poet and journalist, James Agee.
His hobbies include skydiving, smoking Malboro cigarettes, drinking Johnny
Walker Red, riding a Harley, playing chess, and sporting a Bobcat head tattoo on his upper right arm. (His film company is named Bobcat Films.) He also got another tattoo below his bobcat head while filming the movie SHANGHAI 1920- the Chinese symbol for "strength." In 2003 Adrian added a new tattoo, "Natalie," on his left upper arm.
Adrian wrote a short film called BEYOND BELIEF. It was also Adrian’s directing debut. Declared "a dazzling tone-poem, as original and accomplished as short-film making gets," it debuted at East Hamptons Film Festival in October 1995. BEYOND BELIEF received a Finalist Award at the Houston Film Festival in June 1996. It has been shown on Robert Redford’s Independent Film Network. BEYOND BELIEF is the "story of a lost soul visited by his guardian angel on the last day of his life."
Adrian has finished directing and co-producing CEMENT. Winning the Grand Prize for Best Film at Worldfest-Houston Film Festival, the movie was released 2003. As his feature film directorial debut, Adrian chose Justin Mongo’s "crisply written thriller." Adrian has also directed three music videos, one for Paula Abdul in 1997 and "My Hometown" and "Bar Light Bar Bright" in 1999 for country singer songwriter, Charlie Robison.
Besides the award for BEYOND BELIEF, Adrian was nominated for 1996’s Petcabus Award for "Best Actor in a Drama series" for "Profit." He has one audio book to his credit: UNFINISHED LIVES 2: MONTGOMERY CLIFF. [Dove Books] Adrian has done stage plays including "The Glass Menagerie." (Adrian says this "has always been one of my favorites.") He has also done some off-Broadway work: "On The Waterfront," "Monkey’s Paw," "Malek’s
Dependence," "Cold Foot,"and "Aven’ U Boys" for which he won rave reviews. He has also appeared in plays in Los Angeles: " Love Letters" and "The Secret Sits In The Middle." Besides his film work, Adrian has been featured in several TV series: PROFIT, FEDS, MYSTERIOUS WAYS, and JUDGING AMY.
Adrian and his family live outside Austin, Texas.
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