It wasn't all small roles on soapy teen series, though. In 2006, he played the title role in Lifetime's original movie A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story, which dramatized the real life and murder of Gwen Araujo, a young transgender woman who was murdered after her trans status was discovered. Continuing in the crime-drama genre, Pardo later had guest roles on not one but two of the CSI shows: CSI: Miami in 2006 and CSI: NY in 2011.
Starting in 2012, Pardo landed the bigger roles you probably know him best for. He was cast as half-vampire Nahuel in Breaking Dawn: Part 2, the finale of the Twilight saga. Later that year, Pardo got his first series-regular role on NBC's postapocalyptic drama Revolution, on which he played Jason, the conflicted son of a militia ruler. The show lasted for two seasons before being cancelled in May 2014.