10 Best Pedro Pascal Movies & TV Shows (And Where To Watch Them In India)
You know you’ve made it when fans start hosting a lookalike contest of you in Central Park. From playing the galaxy’s most reluctant babysitter in The Mandalorian to a clicker-killing sad dad in The Last of Us, Pedro Pascal has come a long way from being ‘that guy I once saw in a Law & Order’ episode. These days, he’s not just in everything, he is everything—meme king, internet zaddy, and certified scene stealer.
After emotionally traumatising us on TV in Game of Thrones, Narcos, and The Last of Us, Pedro Pacal has comfortably made the leap to the big screen. From a billionaire heartthrob in Materialists to a stubborn mayor in Eddington to the brainy superhero, Reed Richards, in Marvel’s The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Pascal continues to prove that he can do it all with charm, depth, and perfect hair. So if you’re ready to revisit the roles that launched him into stardom, or the ones that help stay there, here’s a roundup of the best Pedro Pascal movies and TV shows.
Given his real-life silver fox status, Pascal slips right into the role of the smart and cunning red-haired fox, Fink, in DreamWorks’ animated feature The Wild Robot. Fink is a sharp-witted trickster living alone on a remote island, but his life changes when he meets Roz, a robot with a heart of gold, and her adoptive gosling, Brightbill, who bring out his reluctant guardian side. Interestingly, Pascal has openly admitted to Fink feeling more like himself than any other on-screen role he’s taken on over the course of his career.
Before joining Marvel as the smartest superhero in The Fantastic Four: First Steps, Pascal took on the role of super-dad Marcus Moreno in We Can Be Heroes. A standalone sequel to The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D, the movie sees Pascal play a legendary superhero who puts away his cape to raise his daughter, Missy, promising never to fight again, until an alien invasion forces him to team up with other superheroes and their kids to save the world. Pedro brings his dad energy and superhero swagger to this colourful, fast-paced, and action-packed family-friendly film.
Count on Pedro Pascal to confuse you with his range. In the same year he played a loving superhero dad in We Can Be Heroes, he also took on the mantle of Maxwell Lord, a flashy TV personality turned businessman and the main villain in DC’s Wonder Woman 1984. One of his first major blockbuster roles, Maxwell Lord is a power-hungry showman who absorbs the magic of the Dreamstone, a mystical artefact that grants wishes at a devastating personal cost. As the world descends into chaos, he ultimately faces off against Wonder Woman herself. While the film received mixed reviews, Pascal’s performance stood out for its unexpectedly emotional depth and scene-stealing presence serving as an unofficial audition tape for his future in the superhero genre.
Pedro Pascal in a rom-com? Yes, please! Pascal takes on the role of a modern-day unicorn, Harry Castillo, in Celine Song’s semi-autobiographical film Materialists. Starring alongside Dakota Johnson and Chris Evans, he’s part of a complicated love triangle where Lucy, a matchmaker, struggles to choose between her ex-lover and the perfect man on paper who checks off every single marker on her checklist. Pascal, unsurprisingly, plays the dream man on paper: wealthy, grounded, and ready for love.
Playing a secret agent is practically a right of passage in every rising Hollywood actor’s career, and for Pedro Pascal, that box was checked off in Kingsman: The Golden Circle. Pascal plays the role of Whiskey or Agent Jack Daniels, a suave, lasso-wielding secret agent from the U.S. counterpart to the Kingsman agency known as the Statesman. Pascal delivers a high-octane performance with serious cowboy swagger. Without giving away too much, let’s just say his character will leave you second guessing everything.
It’s hard to compete with the most heavily merchandised alien baby in history, but Pedro Pascal still manages to do it, helmet and all, with quiet charisma and full space dad energy. Set five years after the fall of the Empire, The Mandalorian follows Din Djarin, a lone, helmeted bounty hunter who navigates the lawless edges of the galaxy alone, until Baby Yoda waddles into his life and basically coos him into becoming the Galaxy’s favourite single dad.
Pedro Pascal’s time on Game of Thrones may have been brief, but it was nothing short of unforgettable. He slithered onto the screen as the Red Viper, aka Oberyn Martell, in Season 4 with a distinctive accent, sharp political instincts, and a personal vendetta that brought tension to every scene. Oberyn arrives in King’s Landing under the pretense of attending the royal wedding, but in reality, he’s there to avenge the rape and murder of his sister, Elia Martell. What follows is one of the most iconic arcs in the series, culminating in a trial by combat that still haunts fans to this day.
Starring opposite Joaquin Phoenix in A24’s neo-Western film directed by Ari Aster, Pascal takes on the role of Ted Garcia in Eddington. Ted Garcia is the tech-savvy, progressive mayor of Eddington, New Mexico, trying to keep control of his town during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. He finds himself caught in a bitter political standoff with Sheriff Joe Cross over mask mandates and lockdown enforcement, a conflict that quickly escalates into an ideological powder keg.
Before he was hunting intergalactic bounties or wooing matchmakers with his billionaire charm, Pedro Pascal was knee-deep in Colombia’s drug war, playing Javier Peña in the gritty crime drama Narcos. The series chronicles the rise and fall of Pablo Escobar, and later the Cali Cartel, with Peña at the centre of it all. Pascal portrays the sharp, relentless, and morally complex DEA agent to a tee, navigating the murky politics of international law enforcement, corruption, and personal compromise, all while tailing the world’s most wanted drug kingpin. Sporting his now-iconic moustache, the role marked Pascal’s breakout as a major lead and proved he’s more than capable of carrying a series on his own.
In what is undoubtedly his best performance to date, internet daddy goes apocalyptic and dons a flannel shirt and a gruff exterior as Joel, a tough survivor in a mushroom-fuelled apocalyptic wasteland, entrusted with smuggling a sarcastic teenager across the country in the desperate hope of finding a cure in HBO’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Naughty Dog’s beloved zombie-apocalypse game, The Last of Us. From dodging clickers, to delivering terrible puns to Ellie, Pascal plays the role to perfection, earning him several nominations for his performance, including an Emmy for Best Actor in a Drama Series at the 2023 Primetime Emmy Awards.
