Elsa Pataky

Elsa Lafuente Pataky, better known as Elsa Pataky, was born in Madrid on July 18, 1976, to a Spanish father and a mother with Romanian and Hungarian roots, which explains her exotic blonde beauty with light eyes, which captivates all and sundry. Her father was a biochemist, her mother a publicist, and they separated when Elsa was very young, leaving her in the care of the former. The girl perhaps inherited, so to speak, the “chemistry” of her father, because she “attracts” men like a powerful magnet. But her interest in her interpretation must be attributed to her Hungarian grandfather, her actor, from whom she adopted her last name for the artistic denomination with which she is popularly known.

Interpretive studies were combined with those of journalism at the San Pablo CEU University. So he took his theatrical steps at the Las Rozas Cultural Center and with the Ángel Gutiérrez company. But of course popularity would come to him in 1997 with the Telecinco desktop television series Al salir de clase , the adventures of a thousand posh schoolchildren with their teachers, which served as a launching pad for many actors, including Pataky. Other series where she has been seen include La vida en el aire (1998), Central Hospital (2000) and Queen of Swords (2000), 7 vidas (2001) and Los Serrano (2004).

In cinema, she would add supporting roles as a not too memorable sexy girl in No news from God (2001), El fugón (2003), Robbery at three… thirty (2003) and Romasanta. THE HUNTING OF THE BEAST (2004). It seemed that the girl did not know how to say no to almost any of the films that were proposed to her, and her command of languages ​​–five languages ​​that in addition to Spanish include French, English, Romanian and Italian– allowed her to work under the orders of Brian Yuzma in the “terrifying” (take the term in its double meaning) Beyond Re-Animator (2003). She also did not hesitate to play an oriental beauty in the “infamous” (she lived up to the title) Iznogoud the infamous(2005), based on the famous comic by Goscinny and Tabary; an equivalent and Goscinnian role corresponded to him in Asterix at the Olympic Games (2008). In both titles he handled the French; Instead, Italian was his idiomatic tool in Manuale d’amore 2 (2006).

It is clear that she has yet to prove that she is a good actress. At the moment his physique helps, and a lot, to the celebrity and that he does not lack work, but the scandals in the form of authorized reports –Playboy and Elle magazines– or not –Interviú– gave an idea that erotic concessions ended up giving him a lot of problems . Among other things, she has not yet found her sentimental stability. After Fonsi Nieto and Michaël Youn , she seemed pretty settled with Adrien Brody , but they ended up breaking up.

The one who took double notice of Elsa was José Luis Garci , who gave her a small role in the choir Tiovivo c. 1950 (2004), and then shared leadership with Carlos Hipólito in Ninette (2005), her most outstanding role, although the director abused showing the charms of her protagonist, and loaded her French accent a bit.

and hollywood? At the moment, her only presence in a blockbuster from the movie mecca is almost a joke, a screaming girl in that hilarious movie called Snakes on a Plane (2006), whose almost complete plot is included in the title. Of course, curiously her latest film, released in October 2010, is titled DiDi Hollywood , and it’s about a girl who wants to succeed as an actress. You see, Bigas Luna ‘s fiction imitates life itself.