Adrian Pasdar (born April 30, 1965 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American actor and film director.

He was born to an Iranian father, Homayoon (a cardiac surgeon) and a German mother, Rosemarie Pasdar (a nurse and writer, born in Königsberg, Germany). He grew up in Broomall, Pennsylvania and won a football scholarship to the University of Florida. Unfortunately, Pasdar was badly injured in a car accident his Freshman year. The accident left his face scarred and kept him bound to a wheel chair for several months.

Shortly afterward, with a career in athletics now out of the question, Pasdar became an intern with a local theater group in Pennsylvania, building sets and assisting with the sound and lighting. At age 19 he landed his first acting role in Top Gun and has appeared in numerous movies in the past 14 years, including Streets of Gold, Carlito's Way and Near Dark. He also starred in the short lived FOX series Profit which has become a cult classic and also in Mysterious Ways.

Pasdar has played recurring roles on Judging Amy and as of 2005 on Desperate Housewives. Pasdar directed his first feature film, the neo-noir Cement, in 1999. The film stars Chris Penn, Jeffrey Wright, Sherilyn Fenn, Henry Czerny and is written by Farscape's screenwriter Justin Monjo.

Pasdar is married to singer Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks; they have two children, Jackson Slade Pasdar (born 2001) and Beckett Finn Pasdar (born 2004).