Pedro Pascal has dark and slightly sinister good looks that allow him to play a wide range of ethnicities on TV and in film, and he’s taken full advantage of that over the years, playing everything from Italians to Europeans to Latinos in everything from The Good Wife and The Adjustment Bureau to Brothers and Sisters and Nikita. Most recently he joined Clifton Collins, Jr. in the short-lived ABC thriller Red Widow, and moments after that disappeared he jumped over to USA’s new Southern California-based cop drama Graceland, premiering on Thursday, June 6 at 10P, where he plays a Latino cop named Juan Badillo.
Even though Graceland is set in the funky environs of Venice Beach, California, it actually has one of the best and broadest Broadway pedigrees around. Tony Award winners Daniel Sunjata and Aaron Teviot (more recently seen in Les Miserables) are his co-stars on the series, and Pascal himself got his start earlier in the decade on- and off-Broadway. In fact, he directed an Off-Broadway production of Yosemite in early 2012. Now they’re all tough-guy (and slightly crazy) undercover cops in a slightly more serious change-of-pace series for USA.
Catch him on the already well-received pilot on Thursday, or see Pedro Pascal’s other recent work on a rebroadcast of an episode of CSI at midnight, also on USA, or on a rebroadcast of a Nikita at 8P on Friday on the CW. Great guy to watch…
