Elsa Pataky Biography
Elsa Pataky (real name: Elsa Lafuente Medianu) born on 18th July 1976, is a Spanish model, film producer and actress. Elsa Pataky, her professional name, is known for her role as Elena Neves in The Fast and the Furious franchise. Other films she has appeared on include: Snakes on a Plane (2006), Giallo (2009) and Give ‘Em Hell, Malone (2009). In 2010, she also starred in the Spanish film Di Di Hollywood.
Elsa Pataky Age
The Fast and the Furious actress was born on 18th July 1976, in Madrid, Spain. She is 42 years old as of 2018.
Elsa Pataky Familia – Family
The model was born in Spain to Cristina Pataky Medianu, a publicist of Romanian and Hungarian ancestry, and José Francisco Lafuente (her father), a Spanish biochemist. She has one sibling: a younger half-brother by the name Cristian Prieto Medianu who is a cinematographic director.
Elsa Pataky Education
She attended the Universidad de San Pablo CEU where she studied journalism and began to take an interest in acting hence enrolled in their classes. She joined Teatro Cámara de Ángel Gutiérrez, a theater company in Madrid, and left college when she was offered a role in the long-running Spanish TV series Al salir de clase (1997). More Spanish TV roles followed, alongside a growing career in the film industry; first in Spain and increasingly internationally.
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Elsa Pataky Husband
Elsa is married to Australian actor Chris Hemsworth since 2010 over the Christmas holidays. They began their relationship in early 2010 after meeting each other through their mutual representatives.
Elsa Pataky Twins
They are parents to three children: a daughter by the name India who was born in May 2012, and twin sons, Sasha and Tristan who were born in March 2014.
Elsa Pataky’s with her husband and kids
Elsa Pataky Adrien Brody
In 2006 prior to her relationship with Chris Hemsworth, Pataky was in a relationship with Adrien Brody who is an American actor. On her 31st birthday in July 2007, he purchased her a 19th-century estate in New York and they even got featured in a 35-page spread for HELLO! magazine in October 2008 at their New York home. They however broke up in 2009.
Elsa Pataky Fast 5
She appeared in the movie Fast Five as she played the role of Officer Elena Neves with Dwayne Johnson as her partner.
Fast Five is a 2011 American action film directed by Justin Lin and written by Chris Morgan. It is the fifth installment in The Fast and the Furious franchise that was released first in Australia on April 20, 2011, and then in the United States on April 29, 2011.
Fast Five follows Dominic Toretto (Vin Diesel), Brian O’Conner (Paul Walker), and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) as they plan a heist to steal $100 million from corrupt businessman Hernan Reyes (Joaquim de Almeida) while being pursued for arrest by U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) agent Luke Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson).
While developing Fast Five, Universal Studios deliberately departed from the street racing theme prevalent in previous films in the series, to transform the franchise into a heist action series involving cars. By doing so, they hoped to attract wider audiences that might otherwise be put off by a heavy emphasis on cars and car culture.
Fast Five is considered the transitional film in the series, featuring only one car race and giving more attention to action set pieces such as gun fights, brawls, and the heist of $100 million. The production mounted a comprehensive marketing campaign, marketing the film through social media, virtual games, cinema chains, automobile manufacturers, and at NASCAR races.
Fast Five achieved financial success, breaking box office records for the highest-grossing April opening weekend and the second-highest spring opening weekend, and surpassing Fast & Furious (2009) to become the highest-grossing film in the franchise. Fast Five grossed over $625 million worldwide, making it number 66 on the all-time worldwide list of highest-grossing films, in unadjusted dollars, and the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2011.
Fast Five received mostly positive reviews, with critics praising the combination of comedy and “action sequences that toy idly with the laws of physics”; some labeled it the best film in the series. Johnson was singled out for praise in numerous reviews for his performance, with critics calling him “the best thing, by far, in Fast Five” and remarking that scenes shared by Johnson and Diesel were often the “best moments”.
Despite the positive response, many were critical of the film’s running time, considering it too long, and others criticized the treatment of women, stating “[Women] cameo strikingly in buttock form. Others actually have first names.” South American reviewers were critical of the film’s portrayal of Rio de Janeiro as a haven for drug trafficking and corruption, labeling it a “stereotype”.
A sequel, Fast & Furious 6, was released in May 2013 to box office success, surpassing Fast Five as the highest-grossing film in the franchise. Another sequel, Furious 7, released in April 2015, while the eighth installment – The Fate of the Furious was released on 4 April 2017. She reprised her role in the following sequels after Fast 5.
Elsa Pataky Thor: The Dark World
Thor: The Dark World is a 2013 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Thor, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to 2011’s Thor and the eighth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film was directed by Alan Taylor, with a screenplay by Christopher Yost and the writing team of Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely.
In the post end credit scene in Thor: The Dark World, Pataky stood in for Natalie Portman.
The film stars Chris Hemsworth as Thor, alongside Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Anthony Hopkins, Stellan Skarsgård, Idris Elba, Christopher Eccleston, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Kat Dennings, Ray Stevenson, Zachary Levi, Tadanobu Asano, Jaimie Alexander and Rene Russo. In Thor: The Dark World, Thor teams up with Loki to save the Nine Realms from the Dark Elves led by the vengeful Malekith, who intends to plunge the universe into darkness.
Development of Thor: The Dark World began in April 2011, when producer Kevin Feige announced plans for a sequel to follow the crossover film The Avengers. In July 2011, Kenneth Branagh, the director of Thor, withdrew from the project. Brian Kirk and Patty Jenkins were considered to direct the film before Taylor was hired in January 2012.
The supporting cast filled out in August 2012, with the hiring of Eccleston, Dennings, and Akinnuoye-Agbaje. Principal photography began in September 2012 in Surrey, England with filming continuing in Iceland and London, before wrapping up in December 2012. Thor: The Dark World was converted to 3D in post-production.
Thor: The Dark World premiered at the Odeon Leicester Square in London on October 22, 2013, and was released on November 8, 2013, in the United States. Many critics praised it for its visual effects and performances (particularly Hemsworth and Hiddleston), but criticized its story, villain, and pacing; many critics and fans declare it the weakest of the MCU films. The film was a commercial success, grossing over $644 million worldwide and making it the 10th highest-grossing film of 2013. A third film, Thor: Ragnarok, was released on November 3, 2017.
Elsa Pataky Height
Chris Hemsworth’s wife is 1.61 m.
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