Elsa Pataky
Elsa Pataky was born in Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain on July 18th, 1976 and is the Model. At the age of 47, Elsa Pataky biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Elsa Lafuente Medianu (born 18 July 1976), also known as Elsa Pataky, is a Spanish model, actress, and film director.
Pataky is best known for her role as Elena Neves in The Fast and Furious franchise.
She has appeared in the films Snakes on a Plane (2006), Giallo (2009), and Give 'Em Hell, Malone (2009).
She appeared in the Spanish film Di Hollywood (2010).
Early life
Pataky was born in Madrid, Spain, the niece of José Francisco Lafuente, a Spanish biochemist, and Cristina Medianu Pataky, a Romanian publicist. Cristian Prieto Medianu, a cinematographic film producer, is the younger half-brother. Rosa Pataky, a surname that means "in honor of her maternal grandmother.
Pataky attended Universidad CEU San Pablo, where he studied journalism and acting classes. She is fluent in English, Italian, Portuguese, and French, in comparison to Spanish and Romanian.
Personal life
Michal Youn from 2004 to 2006, and American actor Adrien Brody from 2006 to 2009.
After meeting through their mutual contacts, she began dating Australian actor Chris Hemsworth in early 2010. In 2010, Pataky and Hemsworth married during the Christmas holidays. They have three children together: a daughter and twin sons. The family moved from Los Angeles to Byron Bay in Hemsworth's native Australia in 2015.
Pataky's publishing company Ediciones Zeta won €310,000 in Spain's Supreme Court in September 2012. While Pataky was changing clothes during a photoshoot for Elle magazine, Intervivu magazine, owned by the Zeta, published topless photos of Pataky taken with a long lens in March 2007. The Zeta company confirmed that it will appeal the decision.
Career
Pataky was a member of the Madrid theatre company Teatro Cámara de Ángel Gutiérrez. Eventually, she left school when she was cast in the television series Al salir de clase. Some of her subsequent films were co-productions with the UK and France, which introduced her to working in English and French. She was in the cast of the television series Queen of Swords (2000) as Señora Vera Hidalgo, trophy wife of Gaspar Hidalgo and mistress of Captain Grisham, credited in the opening titles but appearing in only 14 of the 22 episodes. She also had a recurring role in the television series Los Serrano, playing teacher Raquel, who fell in love with her student Marcos (Fran Perea).
Pataky has appeared in over 10 Spanish films and co-starred in the French film Iznogoud (2004). She was also on the cover of August 2006 issue of Maxim. She was cast in 2009 in the Mexican series Mujeres Asesinas as Paula Moncada in the episode "Ana y Paula, Ultrajadas". She also starred in the action noir film Give 'Em Hell, Malone and Dario Argento's Giallo.
Pataky became the female face for the first collection of Time Force's jewelry line Ultimate Jewel, opposite football star Cristiano Ronaldo. She played Officer Elena Neves in the movie Fast Five, with Dwayne Johnson as her partner, Luke Hobbs. MTV Networks' NextMovie.com named her one of the Breakout Stars to Watch for in 2011. Pataky was a stand in for Natalie Portman in the post end credit scene in Thor: The Dark World.
Pataky reprised her role as Elena Neves in Fast & Furious 6 (2013), Furious 7 (2015), and The Fate of the Furious (2017), the sixth, seventh and eighth installments of Fast & Furious film series respectively.
In 2018, Pataky starred in the Australian web television series Tidelands as Adrielle Cuthbert. It was released on 14 December 2018 on Netflix.
Pataky played the lead role in Interceptor, directed by Matthew Reilly, which was released in June 2022.