Pedro Pascal Parents: Meet Verónica Pascal and José Balmaceda Riera

Pedro Pascal is a Chilean-born actor from the United States. He is the son of Verónica Pascal and José Balmaceda Riera.

His mother, Verónica Pascal Ureta, was a child psychologist, and his father, José Balmaceda, is a fertility doctor

Pedro Pascal has an older sister, Javiera, and two younger siblings, Nicolás and Lux Pascal, both actresses and transgender activists in Chile.

Pascal claims that his parents were devout Allende supporters who were active in resistance groups against the Pinochet dictatorship.

As a result, Pascal’s family sought refuge in the Venezuelan Embassy in Santiago nine months after his birth, and were later granted asylum.

The family eventually relocated to the United States, where Pascal grew up in Orange County, California, and San Antonio, Texas.

Pascal’s mother died by suicide in 1999. Pascal began using his mother’s surname professionally after her death, both to honor her and because he claimed Americans had difficulty pronouncing his first surname, Balmaceda.