Nerdist's Nerdiest Man Alive: Pedro Pascal

Nerdist’s 2025 Nerdiest Man Alive – Pedro Pascal

Pedro Pascal is Nerdist’s Nerdiest Man alive 2025. Not only has he spent his career adding major nerd properties to his IMDb page like he was Thanos collecting Infinity Stones. So it was only appropriate that in 2025—the same year he returned as Joel Miller on The Last of Us —he finally joined the MCU. But the man who burst onto the pop culture scene as the most stylish, most charismatic denizen of Westeros didn’t join the world’s biggest superhero franchise as one of its coolest characters. He joined as its biggest geek, Reed Richards.

Pascal’s casting as the brilliant scientist in The Fantastic Four: First Steps might have disappointed some who wanted a more naturally nebbish actor. His soft-spoken, sad, quiet performance proved h