Line #67 Creator/PascalLangdale


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2	-> ''[[VideoGame/HeavyRain Press 'X' to "SHAUN!"]]''
3	Pascal Xavier Langlois (born September 5, 1973), known professionally as Pascal Langdale, is an English actor and voice actor. He is best known for his role as Ethan Mars in ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', which he provided motion capture and voice acting for.
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5	Langdale has appeared in supporting roles in a number of television shows since 1999. He runs Collective Intent, a company that assists in facial capture and Behavior Libraries for video games, and teaches performance capture workshops with The Mocap Vaults. He has also co-written a book, ''Performing for Motion Capture: A Guide for Practitioners'' with Mocap Vaults co-founder and fellow tutor John Dower.
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8	!!Film Roles:
9	* ''{{Film/Axolotl}}'' (2000)[[note]]short film[[/note]] as unnamed man
10	* ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' as Flamenco Dancer
11	* ''Film/SuperCometAfterTheImpact'' (2007) as Noah Boyle
12	* ''Gone for a Dance'' (2007) as Antoine
13	* ''{{Film/Steel Trap}}'' (2007) as Robert
14	* ''[[{{Series/Sharpe}} Sharpe's Peril]]'' (2008) as Major Joubert
15	* ''Cards on the Table'' (2008) as David/Shirley
16	* ''Morris: A Life With Bells On'' (2009) as Preston Tannen
17	* ''See For Me'' (2022) as Ernie
18	!!Television Roles:
19	* ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1999) as Armand St. Just
20	* ''Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married'' (1999-2000) as Daniel
21	* ''Shades'' (2001) as Doug
22	* ''Down to Earth'' (2001) as Alan Walcot
23	* ''Always and Everyone'' (2002) as Nick
24	* ''Holby City'' (2002) as David Keelan
25	* ''Dalziel and Pascoe'' as Philip Constable
26	* ''Ultimate Force'' (2003) as [=LeCompte=]
27	* ''Wire in the Blood'' (2003, 2004) as Gordon
28	* ''The Bill'' (2006) as Roland Brayson
29	* ''Casualty'' (2006) as Paul [=McAllister=]
30	* ''Extras'' (2006) as Mark
31	* ''Series/TrialAndRetribution'' (2007) as Jordan Phillips
32	* ''2057'' (2007) as Alain Degas[[note]]Episode: "The Body"[[/note]]
33	* ''Doctors'' (2008, 2010) as Daryl Jeffrey & Angus Warren
34	* ''My Family'' (2009) as Adult Kenzo
35	* ''Free Agents'' (2009) as Doctor Two-Scenes
36	* ''{{Series/Spooks}}'' (2009) as Finn Lambert
37	* ''Any Human Heart'' (2010) as Dr. Roissansac
38	* ''Flashpoint'' (2011) as Dr. Peter Applewhite
39	* ''Series/TheListener'' (2013) as Brad Barrett
40	* ''Nikita'' (2013) as Industrialist/Man in Shadow
41	* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' (2013, 2018) as Preston Monk & Montague Ainsworth
42	* ''Series/RepublicOfDoyle'' (2014) as Vincent Letto
43	* ''[[{{Series/Bitten}} Bitten]]'' (2014-2016) as Karl Marsten
44	* ''Man Seeking Woman'' (2015) as Roger
45	* ''{{Series/Mayday}}'' (2015, 2017) as Lead Investigator [[note]]Episode: "Deadly Mission", credited as Pascale Longdale[[/note]] and AAIB Investigator Rob Carter [[note]] Episode: "Lethal Turn"[[/note]]
46	* ''[[{{Series/Reign}} Reign]]'' (2015) as Cardinal Desjardin
47	* ''Private Eyes'' (2016) as Will Schmit
48	* ''[[{{Series/Between}} Between]]'' (2016) as Dexter Crane
49	* ''[[{{Series/Killjoys}} Killjoys]]'' (2016-2017) as Liam Jelco
50	* ''Saving Hope'' (2017) as Todd Groaner
51	* ''The Kennedys After Camelot'' (2017) as Teddy White
52	* ''Suits'' (2017) as Dr. Jacob Manning
53	!!Video Game Roles:
54	* ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'' (2010) as Ethan Mars
55	* ''VideoGame/SplinterCellBlacklist'' (2013) as English UK Soldier 4 (voice)
56	* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedSyndicate'' (2015) as Additional Voices (voice)
57	* ''VideoGame/TheDivision'' (2016) as Additional Voices (voice)
58	* ''VideoGame/WatchDogsLegion'' (2020) as Bagley & [[spoiler:Bradley Larsen]] (voice) [[note]]Also provided motion capture for various characters[[/note]]
59	* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedValhalla'' (2020) as Wallace (voice)
60	* ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' (2021) [[note]]as a motion capture performer[[/note]]
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62	!!Tropes associated with Pascal Langdale and his roles:
63	* ActorAllusion: One episode of ''[[{{Series/Bitten}} Bitten]]'' shows Karl holding an [[VideoGame/HeavyRain origami figure]], which Pascal made himself. He later said in a tweet that it was an intentional nod.
64	* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In [[https://youtu.be/D6yAI-HrY-A this interview]], he tells a story of how he deduced that someone had recently had surgery for a back injury by mimicking the way they walked and feeling where his body was compensating for the injury.
65	* BilingualBonus:
66	** He speaks untranslated French in ''Spooks''.
67	** His given last name, Langlois, is French for "the English."
68	* ChronicallyKilledActor: His death scenes include ''Steel Trap'', ''[[{{Series/Sharpe}} Sharpe's Peril]]'', ''{{Series/Spooks}}'', ''VideoGame/HeavyRain'', ''Murdoch Mysteries'', ''[[{{Series/Bitten}} Bitten]]'' (notable for being a case of DeathByAdaptation), ''VideoGame/WatchDogsLegion'', and ''See For Me''.
69	* DeadpanSnarker: Many of his roles tend to be this.
70	* GenderBlenderName: His character on ''Cards on the Table'' is a man nicknamed Shirley.
71	* ManOfAThousandFaces: He has been nicknamed "The Swiss Army Knife" of motion capture acting. The characters he plays are so distinct from each other that it can sometimes be hard to tell that they’re all played by the same person.
72	* StageName: He changed his last name from Langlois to the more English-sounding Langdale because casting directors kept assuming he was French. Ironically, he still got called in for a lot of French casting after the name change.
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