Patrick Fabian

Patrick Fabian gave us one of television's great slow-burn performances as Howard Hamlin in Better Call Saul, a man whose immaculate surface made his unraveling devastating. What I respect is the thirty-year apprenticeship behind it: Penn State, stage work, countless guest spots, even a Sitges best actor award for The Last Exorcism. Fabian spent decades being reliably excellent in the margins before the role that revealed his depth finally arrived. That patience is the real story here. He reminds me that character actors are the load-bearing walls of American television, and that a late signature role often lands harder than early stardom ever could.

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Name (English)

Patrick Fabian

Name (Japanese)

パトリック・ファビアン

Reading

ぱとりっく・ふぁびあん

Born

December 7, 1964 (age 61)

Origin

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Occupation

actor / film actor / television actor / stage actor

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Dragon

High school

Cedar Cliff High School

University

Pennsylvania State University

Awards & achievements

• 2010 Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award

• Official sitehttps://www.patrickfabian.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mrpatrickfabian/
• Xhttps://x.com/PatrickFabian
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Fabian
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1985976

Tags

• Pennsylvania
• actor
• film actor
• television actor

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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