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Luke Pasqualino

Luke Pasqualino

British actor


Luca Giuseppe "Luke" Pasqualino (born 19 February 1990) is a British actor of Italian descent. He is best known for his portrayal of Freddie McClair in the television series Skins, d'Artagnan in the television series The Musketeers and Elvis Harte in Our Girl.

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Early life

Pasqualino was born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, to Italian parents from Sicily and Naples.[1][2] He attended Walton Community School, in Walton, Peterborough.

Career

In 2009, Pasqualino made his acting debut as the protagonist in the low-budget film Stingers Rule! about a local football team going against property developers who plan to destroy their beloved football ground. Pasqualino also guest starred on Casualty and Miranda. In 2008, Pasqualino became one of the new series regulars in the third season of the E4 teenage drama television series Skins; he portrayed Freddie McClair, a laid-back weed-smoking college pupil.[3] In February 2010, Pasqualino was cast in the Warner Bros. Pictures supernatural horror film The Apparition;[4] the film was released in August 2012.[5] In 2011, Pasqualino appeared in a recurring role as Paolo, a young servant, on the historical drama television series The Borgias.[6] In July 2012, Pasqualino starred in the romantic comedy film Love Bite.

In October 2011, Pasqualino won the starring role in the Syfy television pilot Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome [7] as the younger self of William "Husker" Adama; the show was first distributed as a ten-episode online series on Machinima.com starting November 2012, and then aired in early 2013 as a televised film on Syfy.[8][9] Later in 2013 Pasqualino appeared in a French television series, Jo. From 2014 to 2016 he starred in the BBC production of The Musketeers, based on the Alexandre Dumas novel.

In 2013, Pasqualino appeared in the ensemble thriller Snowpiercer, which takes place aboard a train as it travels around the globe, carrying the last members of humanity after a failed attempt at climate engineering to stop global warming.[citation needed] In 2021, he played David Kostyk in the Netflix series Shadow and Bone.[citation needed]

Filmography

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References

  1. Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1984-2006, Listed Birth Name as Luca Giuseppe Pasqualino, Year of birth listed as 1990, Place of registration Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
  2. Bergen, Julia (20 July 2009). "Complete Skins cast axed again - News". TV.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  3. "The Apparition Starts Filming". Movies.about.com. 26 February 2010. Archived from the original on 14 June 2013. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
  4. "The Borgias: "Paolo"". The A.V. Club. 16 April 2012. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  5. Moore, Trent (5 November 2012). "Blood and Chrome to debut as web series 9 November". Blastr. Archived from the original on 8 November 2012. Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  6. "The First Two Episodes of Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome". TV News. Comingsoon.net. 9 November 2012. Retrieved 12 November 2012.

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