Who is the sexiest actor on the planet? Some will answer Bradley Cooper, others George Clooney, Brad Pitt or Idris Elba… and then there is the Chris Hemsworth team. The handsome 38-year-old also had the honors of the magazine People who elected him “sexiest man on the planet” in 2014. It must be said that in the blonde genre with light eyes and pretty muscles, the Australian has nothing to envy to other Hollywood Chris, whether Pratt, Pine or Evans. With his good 1.91 m and his 89 kg of muscles, he now weighs his weight in the Mecca of world cinema, and seems to have nothing more to prove. It’s very simple, he can even afford to live on another continent while continuing to work there.
Chris has indeed chosen to return to his native Australia, far from a star-system in which he was not born. Do not be fooled by the trio he forms with his famous brothers Liam and Luke, he is not a child of the ball. Christopher was born on August 11, 1983 in Melbourne. Her mother, Léonie, is an English teacher. He inherits from her an unfailing admiration for the teaching staff. Her father Craig is a social services counsellor. English, Irish, Scottish and German blood runs through the veins of the Hemsworth clan. Chris and his brothers grew up between town and country, as their parents moved around and were on the move, but he especially remembers the years spent in an Aboriginal community in northern Australia. “There were crocodiles and bison on the street, I walked barefoot, and my brothers and I were the only white people in school. Brilliant memories”he confided to Gracein 2012.
At the Hemsworths, we are far from bling-bling and we don’t roll on gold. The advocated values are humility, work, respect for others and nature and a sense of adaptation. What already teach Chris to live as a nomad, as he will do much later during his first world cinematographic successes, sailing between Los Angeles, London, Madrid and Sydney. For now, he still hesitates. He dreams of being a rugby player. Sport brings him the right balance between body and head but his father, worried about possible injuries, pushes him to stop. He takes up water polo. Chris can’t stand still. “It’s my main faulthe admits in Galain 2012. I can’t stand the thought of being bored. I always need to be involved in something.” As a result of this hyperactive side, the handsome kid is not a fan of school desks on which you have to sit quietly. Studies are not for him. So he will be an actor. After a few small roles on TV, he moved to Sydney to play in the very popular Australian soap opera Home and Away then participate in Dance with the stars.
Chris Hemsworth, Too Good to Be True?
Chris is therefore known, of course, but he doesn’t really have the best CV for the cinema, which doesn’t look very welcomingly at soap opera actors. No matter, he doesn’t give up and decides to try his luck on the other side of the Pacific. We are at the end of the 2000s and it will not take him long to burst the screen. His role of a few minutes in the opening scene of JJ Abrams’ Star Trek in 2009 opens the way to the studios.
The big shots at MGM entrust him with the headlining of two in-house productions: a remake of Red Dawn and the horror movie The cabin in the woods. The beginning of glory… or almost. Because the famous studio, on the verge of bankruptcy, must put the two films on the shelf, for lack of money to complete and distribute them. No big deal, Chris is in the running to take on the role of Thor for Marvel. The casting lasts for months and he emerges victorious.
This time, the American dream is on, and it won’t stop. The success becomes global and Chris blows the role of the huntsman in Snow White and the Huntsman to Viggo Mortensen, Hugh Jackman and Michael Fassbender. Excuse a bit. “I’m not about to have a big head”he then assures in the columns of First. He will keep that promise. Partying in sex, drugs and rock’n’roll mode? Very little for him. His thing is more sport, surfing trend. “When you take care of your body, the mind also gets stronger”this is his mantra, as he entrusts to Audience in 2020. On the heart side, after a four-year relationship with his Australian colleague Isabel Lucas, he could take advantage of his notoriety and his obvious charm to chain conquests, but this is not the kind of house either. He marries the beautiful Elsa Pataky after five months of relationship. The one we knew on the arm of Michaël Youn, Adrien Brody and Olivier Martinez settles down and immediately decides to start a family with the handsome boy seven years younger than him. Since then, the lovers and their three kids have left Hollywood for a homecoming in Australia, far from the spotlights and the paparazzi. For Chris, however, there is no question of leaving his family for more than two or three weeks. If he leaves longer, he takes it with him on set but never fails to explain to his children that they have a privileged life. Life in the air but the feet, them, always well on the ground!
Elsa Pataky, the woman of his life
When he met the beautiful Iberian Elsa Pataky, seven years his senior, in July 2010 through mutual friends, they fell in love immediately and they got down to business. The proof: after five months of love story, the lovebirds say yes for life. Elsa fell pregnant in the process and gave birth, on May 11, 2012, to their first child, a pretty India Rose. Next will come the twins Tristan and Sasha in 2014. “It is obvious that she is beautiful, that she makes me laugh and that we have fun”he confided to People in 2014, also confessing that she is the real boss at home. Their story has been going on for twelve years already. His previous love story with actress Isabel Lucas lasted four years, from 2005 to 2008.
The ultimate hunk
“I would be lying if I told you that my physique did not help me”laughs Chris Hemsworth in Paris Matchin 2017. It is clear that over the years, this one is far from having deteriorated…
Her dream life in Australia
He fled Hollywood with his family
Between two shoots, Chris chose to live in Byron Bay, a small town of 5,000 inhabitants, on the east coast of Australia and it is not uncommon to meet him with his three kids and his sweetheart on the beach, doing yoga and surfing. “We live near a quiet little surfer town, on a former farm, with horses and lots of other animals. The people we meet have nothing to do with Hollywood, we’re talking about ‘anything other than contracts, castings or financing, subjects that always invaded conversations a little when I was still in LA”he explains in QG in 2019. Happiness made easy!
Never without his brothers, Luke and Liam
With the Hemsworths, it’s very simple, we’re all comedians! Liam, the youngest, seven years younger than Chris, starred in the saga The Hunger Games and D’Independence Day: Resurgence and he’s also known for his tumultuous relationship with Miley Cyrus. As for Luke, the eldest, who is three years older than Chris, he has appeared in several TV series including Westworld. “I spent my time arguing with my brothers and today we are still fighting to get certain roleshad fun Chris in Galain 2012. Now even my mother is trying to overshadow us by filming for Australian TV (laughs). However, we have a lot of respect for each other. We help each other and give each other advice.”
His career
2009: STAR TREK
Chris obtains a mini role, that of the father of the future captain Kirk, in the prologue of the film of JJ Abrams.
2011: THOR
Chris plays the God of Thunder for the first time in this $150 million Marvel mega-production, directed by Kenneth Branagh.
2012: SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTER
He plays the hunter who will help Snow White, played by Kristen Stewart, to reclaim her kingdom.
2013: RUSH
He plays James Hunt, the English F1 driver, star of the 70s, rivaling Niki Lauda, played by Daniel Brühl.
2015: IN THE HEART OF THE OCEAN
Chris reunites with director Ron Howard in this spin-off film about the legend of Moby Dick.
2018: AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
Chris Hemsworth once again lends his features to Thor against Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana and Scarlett Johansson.
2019: MEN IN BLACK: INTERNATIONAL
He plays Agent H alongside Tessa Thompson in the Men in Black spin-off. The critics are not delighted but the spectators are present.
2020: TYLER RAKE
Chris plays a mercenary with big knacks and a troubled past in this Netflix action movie whose sequel has just been shot.
2022: THOR: LOVE AND THUNDER
Chris resumes his role in the fourth installment of the now legendary Thor saga, directed by Taika Waititi, like the previous opus.
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