Life and career

Pasquale was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania. He attended the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University as a theatre major for a semester before moving to New York. He has starred in numerous theatre productions. These include having created the role of Fabrizio in the original Seattle cast of The Light in the Piazza but his work on Rescue Me prevented him from reprising the role on Broadway, as he has been quoted, "That was the most heartbreaking thing that I've ever experienced professionally."

He played the role of Sheriff Joe Sutter in the musical The Spitfire Grill in which he introduced the song "Forest For the Trees." He then scored the lead role of Chris in the 1998 American tour of Miss Saigon. In 2002, he appeared in the New York production of A Man of No Importance in the role of Robbie Faye. He appeared at the Joey DiPaolo AIDS Foundation's concert of The Secret Garden as Archibald Craven, alongside Michael Arden, Jaclyn Nedenthal, Will Chase, Max von Essen, Celia Keenan-Bolger, and Tony Award-winning actress Laura Benanti, whom he later married.

In April 2009, the record label PS Classics released his first album, Somethin' Like Love, a jazz album produced by Jessica Molaskey and John Pizzarelli. He launched his official website in February 2009 and starred in the Broadway play reasons to be pretty by Neil LaBute.

In 2011, Pasquale played the lead role, Paul Keller, on the Fox Television Studios pilot Over/Under. The pilot was rejected in 2012, but was aired on the USA Network on January 4, 2013.

In 2012, Pasquale made a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom Up All Night. He also starred in the Coma miniseries.

He was the lead actor for the NBC series Do No Harm, which premiered on January 31, 2013 to the lowest debut rating in the history of prime-time television.

In 2013, Pasquale starred in The Bridges of Madison County at the Williamstown Theatre Festival alongside Elena Shaddow. He also starred in the Broadway production of the musical at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre beginning in late January 2014 with Kelli O'Hara replacing Shaddow. He had previously worked with O'Hara in 2013 in the world premiere of Richard Greenberg and Scott Frankel's musical Far from Heaven in which he portrayed Frank Whitaker.

In 2014, Pasquale guest starred in the popular legal drama series premiered on CBS The Good Wife season 6 from episode 4 as Alicia Florrick's (Julianna Margulies) campaign manager Jonathan Elfman.

He recently starred in Lyric Opera of Chicago's Carousel alongside Laura Osnes, which closed May 3, 2015.

In 2016, he portrayed Mark Fuhrman in the critically acclaimed FX limited series American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson. He received the 2016 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Musical for portraying Jamie Lockhart in the 2016 revival of The Robber Bridegroom at the Roundabout Theater Company.

Personal life

Pasquale became engaged to actress Phillipa Soo in February 2016. Pasquale was previously married to actress Laura Benanti.

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2004	The Last Man	Jack Manning
2005	Aurora Borealis	Jacob Shorter
2007	Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem	Dallas
2009	The Answer Man	Elizabeth's date	Uncredited

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	Six Feet Under	Kurt	2 episodes
2003	Platinum	David Ross	Episode: "Love"
2004-11	Rescue Me	Sean Garrity	93 episodes Satellite Award for Best Cast - Television Series
2010	Marry Me	Luke Maynard	2 episodes
2011	The Playboy Club	Young Hef	Episode: "Pilot"
2011	Submissions Only	Reed Rozelle	Episode: "The Miller/Hennigan Act"
2012	Up All Night	Luke Granby	4 episodes
2012	Coma	Mark Bellows	2 episodes
2013	Do No Harm	Dr. Jason Cole	13 episodes
2013	Over/Under	Paul Keller	Television movie
2014	And, We're Out of Time	Jackson Cooper	Television movie
2014-15	The Good Wife	Johnny Elfman	13 episodes
2014	White Collar	Conrad Worth	Episode: "Taking Stock"
2015	Bloodline	Alec Wolos	6 episodes
2016	American Crime Story	Mark Fuhrman	5 episodes
2016	Billions	Chase	2 episodes
2016	Almost There	Steven	2 episodes

[ Source: Wikipedia ]