Steven Pasquale

Steven Pasquale (pronounced /pɑːsˈkwɑːl/; born November 18, 1976) is an American actor. He is best known for his role as the New York City Firefighter/Emergency Medical Technician Sean Garrity in the series Rescue Me. He made his debut on the HBO series Six Feet Under, playing a love interest for David. He has also starred in the film Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem, and as Scott in American Son, on both stage and screen.

Pasquale was born in Hershey, Pennsylvania. For Highschool he attended Bishop McDevitt High School, a Roman Catholic school in Harrisburg, PA. He attended the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University as a theatre major for one semester, before moving to New York. He has starred in numerous theatre productions. He originated the role of Fabrizio in the Seattle cast of The Light in the Piazza, but scheduling conflicts with Rescue Me prevented him from reprising the role on Broadway. He said, “That was the most heartbreaking thing that I’ve ever experienced professionally.”[1]

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