What Languages Does Chris Hemsworth’s Wife, Elsa Pataky, Speak?
Much to the dismay of many Marvel fans, Chris Hemsworth is taken. He’s happily married to Elsa Pataky, a Spanish model, actor, and producer. The two actors have been married for over a decade and have three children, including twins.
Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky got married after dating for 3 months
Elsa Pataky was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1976 as Elsa Lafuente Medianu. She chose “Elsa Pataky” as her stage name to honor her maternal grandmother, Rosa Pataky. Elsa’s love of acting began at a young age. She later studied the craft at Universidad CEU San Pablo.
But Pataky left school to focus on acting when she landed a role in Al Salir de Clase. She went on to portray Elena Neves in the Fast & Furious film franchise. She also appeared in Snakes on a Plane, 12 Strong, Malone, and the TV series Tidelands, IMDb reports.
Pataky met her now-husband, Chris Hemsworth, through talent agent William Ward. The couple hit it off quickly. It didn’t take long for the two to know they wanted to get married. In fact, they wed only three months after they began dating.
The two were vacationing with relatives in Indonesia, and it just felt right. “Honestly, we had both our families on holiday at the same time, just randomly, and we said, ‘This is a good opportunity with everyone together.’ So we just did it,” Hemsworth explained.
Chris Hemsworth’s wife, Elsa Pataky, speaks 6 languages
Not only is Elsa Pataky a talented actor, but she’s also fluent in six languages: English, Spanish, Romanian, Italian, Portuguese, and French. She speaks Spanish at home with her children.
She’s been married to Hemsworth for over 10 years, but the Thor: Love and Thunder actor hasn’t learned Spanish fluently yet.
“He promised me. He said, ‘I’ll be speaking Spanish in two months’ … He’s improving. Every year, he knows one or two words more,” Pataky told Australian TV host Richard Wilkins in 2017, Daily Mail reports.
“My Spanish is mediocre,” Hemsworth told the Spanish magazine XL Semanal. “If we lived in Spain, it would improve. But my children laugh at me every time I try to speak it. And that destroys my confidence. So I blame them,” the actor joked.
Pataky said of speaking Spanish at home: “That’s important — that’s what my mom did to me, talked in Romanian. [When] I start to speak in English, I’m like, ‘I don’t express myself great.’ I got used to making an effort to speak to them in Spanish.”
The Thor actor makes a cameo in his wife’s new movie, ‘Interceptor’
Elsa Pataky’s latest project, Interceptor, recently dropped on Netflix. IMDb describes the action flick thus: “One Army captain must use her years of tactical training and military expertise when a simultaneous coordinated attack threatens the remote missile Interceptor station she is in command of.”
Chris Hemsworth executive-produced the TV movie and even makes a cameo. Viewer interest catapulted the film to number one on the streaming platform.
One would think that such an impressive showing would indicate the movie is also a critical darling. However, that’s not the case, according to Daily Mail. Many Twitter posts slam the movie.
One critic tweeted, “If you haven’t watched it yet. Don’t. That’s the review.”
Another reviewer wrote, “If you have 1 hour 40 minutes of your life that you don’t ever want back, watch #Interceptor on Netflix, it’s pure turd.”
It wasn’t all bashing, though. One fan tweeted, “@chrishemworth your beautiful & incredibly talented wife ELSA PATAKY is AMAZING! The movie #interceptor was phenomenal! A MUST SEE! Congratulations on an excellent move & 2 be lucky & smart enough 2 have married such an incredible woman!!”
