Liam Hemsworth

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Liam Hemsworth was born on January 13, 1990, in Melbourne, Australia, and is the younger brother of actors Chris Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth. He is the son of Leonie (van Os), a teacher of English, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor. He is of Dutch (from his immigrant maternal grandfather), Irish, English, Scottish, and German ancestry. His uncle, by marriage, was Rod Ansell, the bushman who inspired the film Crocodile Dundee (1986).

The Hemsworth family lived primarily on Phillip Island, a small island located south of Melbourne. Following in the footsteps of his older brothers, who went into acting in their teens, Liam scored his first audition at age sixteen and appeared on the Australian TV series Summer Bay (1988) and McLeod’s Daughters (2001) before taking on a recurring character role on the soap opera Les voisins (1985), in which his brother Luke had also appeared. Roles on TV shows Son Altesse Alex (2008) and Satisfaction (2007) followed before Liam moved to the United States to pursue a big-screen career.

After suffering two setbacks – his character was written out of the script for Expendables: Unité spéciale (2010) days before filming and he lost the title role of Thor (2011) to his brother Chris – Liam was cast opposite Miley Cyrus in the Nicholas Sparks drama La dernière chanson (2010). The two, who played love interests in the film, soon started dating, and Liam appeared in Cyrus’ music video “When I Look at You.” Following that film’s modest commercial success, and the attendant press coverage of his rising career and high-profile romance, he was almost immediately thrust into leading man status, and was cast as Gale Hawthorne in the big-screen adaptation of the best-selling novel Hunger Games (2012). Following the blockbuster success of that film, Liam nabbed a number of roles, including a supporting part in Expendables 2: Unité spéciale (2012) and leading roles in the war drama Amour et honneur (2013), the crime drama Empire State (2013), and the thriller Paranoia (2013). He reprised the role of Gale Hawthorne in Hunger Games: L’embrasement (2013), Hunger Games: La révolte – 1ère partie (2014), and Hunger Games: La révolte – 2ème partie (2015), played a hero fighter pilot in Independence Day: Resurgence (2016), a period Australian in The Duel (2016), and a romantic comedy archetype opposite Rebel Wilson in Isn’t It Romantic (2019).

Hemsworth married American singer and actress Miley Cyrus in December 2018, after a decade-long courtship.