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Pasdar studied English literature in college and played college football until he suffered a serious car accident. While recuperating from the injuries he moved home to Philadelphia and interned as a technician (building sets) at the People's Light Theater Company. He injured his thumb at work, and the disabilities payment financed a trip to New York. There he attended the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute. After finishing at the Institute he auditioned for the film Top Gun (1986). Director Tony Scott was so impressed with Pasdar that he added a part into the movie for him. The success of Top Gun (in which his part was small) led to a supporting role for him in Sugarbabies (1986). Eventually he got his first lead, as a cowboy in love with (and bitten by) a vampire, in Near Dark (1987). After making a few more films he went on to appear in a string of theater productions, notably [rovilink="P"]Tennessee Williams
[/rovilink]' The Glass Menagerie, and in two TV movies, the avant-garde Big Time (1989) for "American Playhouse" on PBS, and The Lost Capone, in which he played the straight-living brother of Al Capone. He spent some time in Paris, where he wrote a screenplay that was later optioned, then returned to Hollywood to continue making films.
