David Pasquesi

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::summary American actor and comedian (born 1960) ::

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name	David Pasquesi
image	David Pasquesi at iO Chicago, April 2013.jpg
caption	David Pasquesi on stage after a show at iO Chicago in April 2013.
birth_date
birth_place	Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
occupation	{{flatlist
years_active	1983–present
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• Actor
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David Pasquesi (born December 22, 1960) is an American actor and comedian. His screen credits include Father of the Bride (1991), Common Law (1996), Strangers with Candy (1999), The Watcher (2000), Employee of the Month (2004), According to Jim (2005), The Beast (2009), Boss (2011), Chicago Fire (2013), and Lodge 49 (2018)

Early life

Pasquesi, who is of Italian heritage, was born in Chicago and raised in Lake Bluff, Illinois. He graduated from Lake Forest High School.

Career

Pasquesi starred in the short film Regrets that premiered An Event Apart, and co-starred in I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With. He wrote for Exit 57 and Strangers with Candy, co-wrote and appeared in the Spike TV series Factory, and co-wrote and co-starred in Cop Show. In 2009, he was in the cast of Angels & Demons, where he played the character Claudio Vincenzi. He co-created and co-wrote the new show Merkin Penal. Similar to his role of "Meat Man Stew" in Strangers With Candy, Pasquesi plays "Knife Man" in At Home with Amy Sedaris.

Pasquesi has performed at The Second City, iO Theater, Improv Institute, and Annoyance Theatre. He studied under Del Close in the early 80s, and became part of the first iO Harold team "Baron's Barracudas". He appeared in four mainstage revues at Second City, as well as in plays at the Steppenwolf Theatre and the Goodman Theatre.

In 2009, he played a supporting role in the Harold Ramis film Year One as the Prime Minister of Sodom. Pasquesi was a cast member in the Chicago premiere of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage at the Goodman Theatre.

TJ and Dave

Since 2002, he has been performing with T. J. Jagodowski in the all improvised show "TJ and Dave". In 2006, they began an Off Broadway run, performing monthly at The Barrow Street Theatre in New York City. The Chicago Reader has described the show as "an hour of subtle character development, verbal facility, and pantomimic agility that anticipates and plays off the audience's reactions." Guests of the show include August: Osage County's Tracy Letts, Academy Award Nominee Michael Shannon, SNL's Mike O'Brien, and Absinthe's Jet Eveleth. The 2009 South by Southwest Film Festival included the documentary Trust Us, This is All Made Up directed by Alex Karpovsky, which chronicles a "T.J. and Dave" performance.

Filmography

Film

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1987	Light of Day	Sophomore
1991	Heaven Is a Playground	Hospital clerk
1991	Father of the Bride	Hanck, the Caterer
1993	Groundhog Day	Psychiatrist
The Fugitive	Newscaster
1994	Natural Born Killers	Cameraman	Uncredited
The Puppet Masters	Vargas
1995	Stuart Saves His Family	Tollefson
1996	Chain Reaction	Al Vanzetti
1998	Temporary Girl	Paul, Jeanette's Husband
2000	Return to Me	Tony
The Watcher	Norton
2002	Joshua	Eli Cohen
2003	Nobody Knows Anything!	Jimmy
2004	Employee of the Month	Kyle Lacopa
2005	Strangers with Candy	Stew
The Ice Harvest	Councilman Williams
2006	I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With	Luca Giancarlo
2008	Leatherheads	Voiceover Announcer
2009	Tapioca	Lothario
Angels & Demons	Claudio Vincenzi
Year One	Prime Minister
2010	Something Better Somewhere Else	Boss
2011	The Moleman of Belmont Avenue	Dave the Hermit
2012	To Rome with Love	Tim
Close Quarters	Cary
2013	Hell Baby	Cardinal Vicente
2015	This Isn't Funny	Christoffer Anderson
Bloomin Mud Shuffle	Fr. Tony
Open Tables	Dean Ponder
2017	Kings	Howard
2018	Imperfections	Rod
2020	Monuments	Jim
2021	Later Days	DJ Shades
2022	Last Looks	Darius Jamshidi
2023	Le proprietà dei metalli	Prof. Moretti
2024	All Happy Families	Jerry
2025	Death of a Unicorn	Pilot
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Television

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Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Dear John	Smoke-Ender	Episode: "True Confessions"
Men Will Be Boys	Tom	Television film
1991	Dream On	Alex	Episode: "To Have and Have and Have and Have Not"
1994	The Shaggy Dog	Officer Hanson	Television film
1996	Common Law	Henry Beckett	5 episodes
1998	Early Edition	Orville	Episode: "A Horse Is a Horse"
1999–2000	Strangers with Candy	Stew	4 episodes
2002	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Dr. Blore	Episode: "Chet's Shirt"
2003	Undeclared	Professor Beyser	Episode: "God Visits"
Hi Guys	Tommy	Television film
2005	According to Jim	Dave	2 episodes
2008	Factory	Smitty	6 episodes
2009	The Beast	Dr. Warren Shelby	Episode: "The Walk In"
2011–2012	Boss	Jack Bentley	5 episodes
2012	Breaking the News	Todd Strait	Television film
2012–2013	The Mob Doctor	Dr. Ian Flanigan	9 episodes
2013–2019	Chicago Fire	Erik McAuley / McAuley	3 episodes
Veep	Andrew Meyer	15 episodes
2015	Cop Drama	Mayor	Television film
2016	The Jamz	Kasey	4 episodes
Easy	Dave	Episode: "Art and Life"
2017	Special Skills	Casting Director	Episode: "Party Animals"
Shrink	Pastor Kaine	Episode: "Cool Ranch"
2017, 2018	Superior Donuts	Lou	2 episodes
2017–2020	At Home with Amy Sedaris	Tony Pugnalata	10 episodes
2018	Empire	Beekman Poser	Episode: "Fair Terms"
Bobcat Goldthwait's Misfits & Monsters	Carol	Episode: "Devil in the Blue Jeans"
Madam Secretary	Prime Minister Enzo Moretti	Episode: "The Magic Rake"
2018–2019	Lodge 49	Blaise St. John	20 episodes
2020	The Conners	Cyril	Episode: "Bridge Over Troubled Conners"
Inferno	Leonard Gregory	Television film
2021–2022	The Book of Boba Fett	Mok Shaiz's majordomo	5 episodes
2022	She-Hulk: Attorney at Law	Craig Hollis / Mr. Immortal	Episode: "Just Jen"
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References

References

1. "David Pasquesi".
2. Guerrasio, Jason. (September 4, 2007). "Jeff Garlin on I Want Someone To Eat Cheese With".
3. Garron, Barry. (June 26, 2008). "Spike TV's "Factory" may win favor".
4. Pedersen, Erik. (August 17, 2017). "New York TV Festival Lists Picks For Its Script Competition".
5. McCarthy, Todd. (May 5, 2009). "Angels & Demons".
6. (June 19, 2009). "'Year One' stars Jack Black, Michael Cera". [[Chicago Tribune]].
7. Karpovsky, Alex. (June 27, 2009). "Trust Us, This Is All Made Up".
8. Ford, Anne. (June 5, 2008). "Life Without a Script".
9. "Online Events".
10. "The Daily Texan - Docs, new category among film highlights".
11. [http://austin.decider.com/articles/tj-and-daves-tj-jagodowski-and-david-pasquesi,24855 TJ And Dave's T.J. Jagodowski and David Pasquesi] {{webarchive. link. (August 21, 2009)

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