Background
Ethnicity:
Pascal has Spanish roots from a Basque grandfather and Majorcan grandmother.
Pascal was born on April 2, 1975, in Santiago, Chile. His mother is a child psychologist and his father, José Balmaceda, a fertility doctor; his younger brother Lucas Balmaceda is an actor in Chile.
Pascal's parents were Allende supporters and were involved in the opposition movement against the US-backed military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile around the time of Pascal's birth. Because of this, soon after his birth, Pascal's family was granted political asylum in Denmark. The family ultimately moved to the United States, and Pascal was raised in Orange County, California and San Antonio, Texas.