Adrian Pasdar is an American actor and film director. He is known for playing Jim Profit on the TV series Profit, for his roles in Near Dark, Carlito`s Way, Mysterious Ways and as Nathan Petrelli on Heroes. Additionally, he directed the feature film Cement.

He graduated from Marple Newtown Senior High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, and then received a football scholarship to the University of Florida to play linebacker. Adrian Pasdar was badly injured in a car accident during his freshman year.

The accident left his face scarred, his legs badly injured, and kept him in a wheelchair for several months, at which time he had to finish his freshman year while undergoing intensive physical therapy.