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Luke Pasqualino Luca Giuseppe "Luke" Pasqualino is an English
actor, known for his portrayal of Freddie McClair in the television series Skins.
Early life Pasqualino was born in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.
He is of Italian heritage: Sicillian on his father's side and Neapolitan on his mother's.
He attended Walton Community School, in Walton, Peterborough, and the drama classes held by
Martin Tempest at Stamford Art Centre. He auditioned for the part of Tony Stonem in
Series 1 of Skins but it went to Nicholas Hoult. Before appearing in Skins he performed
numerous plays and had done some modelling. Pasqualino also worked in his father's salon,
Image International. 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 has 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, which replaces its primary cast members every two seasons. Pasqualino portrayed
Freddie McClair, a laid-back weed-smoking high school pupil. As season four neared its
conclusion, his character was killed off and the remainder of the regulars were replaced,
as usual. In February 2010 Pasqualino was cast in the
Warner Bros. Pictures supernatural horror film The Apparition alongside both Twilight
star Ashley Greene and Harry Potter star Tom Felton. Filming began that same month in both
Los Angeles and Berlin, and the film was released in August 2012. In September of the same year
Pasqualino won the recurring role of Paolo, a young servant, on the historical drama television
series The Borgias. In July 2012 Pasqualino starred alongside Jessica Szohr in the romantic
werewolf comedy film Love Bite. In October 2011, Pasqualino won the starring
role in the Syfy television pilot Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome, a prequel to the
reimagined Battlestar Galactica series. Pasqualino portrayed the younger self of William "Husker"
Adama in the prequel, which was first distributed as a ten-episode online series on Machinima.com
starting November 9, 2012, and then aired in early 2013 as a televised film on Syfy.
Later in 2013 Pasqualino also played in a French television series, Jo.
Pasqualino also appears in the ensemble thriller Snowpiercer, which examines a train full of
travelers struggling to coexist in a world covered by ice and snow. Starring Octavia
Spencer and Chris Evans, the film was released around the world in 2013, but, due to a dispute
between the director and the film's American distributors, has yet to be released in the
United States. Filmography