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
Charles de Batz de Castelmore (), also known as d'Artagnan and later Count d'Artagnan ( 1611 – 25 June 1673), was a French Musketeer who served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard. He died at the siege of Maastricht in the ...
in the television series ''
The Musketeers
''The Musketeers'' is a British period action drama programme based on the characters from Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel ''The Three Musketeers'' and co-produced by BBC America and BBC Worldwide. The series follows the musketeers Athos, Aramis ...
'' and Elvis Harte in ''
Our Girl
''Our Girl'' is a British television military drama series, written and created by Tony Grounds, first broadcast on BBC One on 24 March 2013. The series initially starred Lacey Turner as Molly Dawes, a young working-class woman, who joins the ...
''.
Early life
Pasqualino was born in
Peterborough
Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...
,
Cambridgeshire
Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a county in the East of England, bordering Lincolnshire to the north, Norfolk to the north-east, Suffolk to the east, Essex and Hertfordshire to the south, and Bedfordshire and Northamptonshire to the ...
, to Italian parents from
Sicily
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and
Naples
Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...
. He attended
Walton Community School, in
Walton, Peterborough
Walton is a residential area and electoral ward of the city of Peterborough, in the unparished area of Peterborough, in the Peterborough district, in the ceremonial county of Cambridgeshire, England. Manufacturers of industrial machinery, Peter B ...
.
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
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*Casualty (person), a person who is killed or rendered unfit for service in a war or natural disaster
**Civilian casualty, a non-combatant killed or injured in warfare
* The emergency department of a hospital, also known as ...
'' 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. In February 2010, Pasqualino was cast in the
Warner Bros. Pictures
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supernatural horror film ''
The Apparition;'' the film was released in August 2012. In 2011, Pasqualino appeared in a recurring role as Paolo, a young servant, on the historical drama television series ''
The Borgias''. In July 2012, Pasqualino starred in the romantic comedy film ''
Love Bite
''Love Bite'' is a 2012 British comedy horror film directed by Andy De Emmony, based on a screenplay by Cris Cole and Ronan Blaney. The film revolves around a mysterious traveller girl who is suspected of being a werewolf. It stars Jessica Szoh ...
''.
In October 2011, Pasqualino won the starring role in the Syfy television pilot ''
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome''
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.
Later in 2013 Pasqualino appeared in a French television series, ''
Jo''. From 2014 to 2016 he starred in the BBC production of
The Musketeers
''The Musketeers'' is a British period action drama programme based on the characters from Alexandre Dumas's 1844 novel ''The Three Musketeers'' and co-produced by BBC America and BBC Worldwide. The series follows the musketeers Athos, Aramis ...
, based on the
Alexandre Dumas novel.
In 2013, Pasqualino appeared in the ensemble thriller ''
Snowpiercer
''Snowpiercer'' () is a 2013 post-apocalyptic science fiction action film based on the French climate fiction graphic novel ''Le Transperceneige'' by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand and Jean-Marc Rochette. The film was directed by Bong Joon-ho a ...
'', 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
Climate engineering (also called geoengineering) is a term used for both carbon dioxide removal (CDR) and solar radiation management (SRM), also called solar geoengineering, when applied at a planetary scale.IPCC (2022Chapter 1: Introduction and ...
to stop
global warming
In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...
. In 2021, he played David Kostyk in the
Netflix
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series
''Shadow and Bone''.
Filmography
Film
Television
References
External links
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Living people
English people of Italian descent
British people of Italian descent
English people of Sicilian descent
People of Campanian descent
English male soap opera actors
English male film actors
English male stage actors
People from Peterborough
People educated at The Voyager School
21st-century English male actors
Male actors from Cambridgeshire
1990 births