Elsa Pataky

Pataky in 2011, photo by kathclick/Bigstock.com

Birth Name: Elsa Lafuente Medianu

Place of Birth: Madrid, Spain

Date of Birth: 18 July, 1976

Ethnicity:
*father – Spanish
*mother – Hungarian, Romanian

Elsa Pataky is a Spanish actress, model, and producer. She is married to Australian actor Chris Hemsworth, with whom she has three children.

Her father, José Francisco Lafuente, is of Spanish descent. Her mother, Cristina Medianu Pataky, is of Hungarian and Romanian descent.

Elsa’s maternal grandfather was Mircea Medianu, an actor.

Elsa’s maternal grandmother was named Roza/Rosa Pataky. Roza was born in the Transilvania region of Romania.

Source: http://www.vogue.it

37 Responses

  1. Check7t says:

    She does look exotic, something about her looks weird.

    It’s probably cause she has light features with a darker skin tone.

  2. Check7t says:

    Romanian girls are very beautiful.

  3. Check7t says:

    She’s like 8 years older than her husband.

  4. ihatemostpeople says:

    She looks Mestiza to me. I thought she was Mexican….

  5. Gurrl says:

    I knew she had something other than just Spanish.

    • scott says:

      what makes you think that?

      • andrew says:

        stereotypes

        • Gurrl says:

          That is not entirely incorrect :] but I consider myself pretty good at guessing anyway. Not to say that there are some Spaniards who do not have a stereotypical Mediterranean appearance, but I just suspected Elsa probably had some other European mix also

          • lelo4 says:

            Most Spaniards don’t have a ‘stereotypical Mediterranean appearance’, thats the Italians. Spaniards are very western/basque-like.

          • andrew says:

            That is what most prominent anthropologists say: Spain as the cradle of “Mediterranen race”. Spain as a whole has more Mediterranean types than Italy by far. Consider Spain’s latitude and climate that is way hotter than Italy, where most people live in the North, and have more Central European influence. On the other hand Basques are the lightest of all Iberians.

          • andrew says:

            I meant the contrary of what most prominent anthropologists say.

          • MadBadDog says:

            Are you Andrew, I mean, the real Andrew that normally posts in this site?

        • blue says:

          Andrew, we are atlanto – med, and our genetics are a mix of europeans, i see a lot of dna results of spaniards and more or less we are iberian península ( celtic), the most who is Brown hair and dark eyes , british island, ireland, west europe ( french or germany) Escandinavia ,and italy greece, sometimes india ( gipsies?, the mayority of us can pass in over Europe , a lot of us have very british or German look (when we expelled the moors, we repopulated spain with people from the north,), but the mayority have the Celtic look, not moor, examples:

          – Jorge Cadaval and his brother https://www.google.es/search?q=los+morancos&biw=1366&bih=622&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiXh43uw7TOAhXBOxQKHYWzDEIQ_AUIBygA&dpr=1#q=jorge+cadaval

          – Alberto López López López http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=alberto+lopez&FORM=HDRSC2
          https://www.google.es/search?q

          – Amaia Salamanca and very beautiful, https://www.google.es/search?q=amaia+salamanca&biw=1366&bih=622&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&sqi=2&ved=0ahUKEwj5wcX4xrTOAhUPkRQKHZlYDnMQ_AUIBigB.

          -Álvaro Cervantes, Jan cornet is catalán, marc clotet, catalán, Verónica Forque looks like Julianne Moore, Cristina Castaño another red haired, Vanesa Romero another blondie, Ana Simon, Pilar Rubio, Lourdes Maldonado, Maria Casado, Carlos Latre, Carolina Cerezuela, Carolina Ferre another beautiful, Magie Civantos, Mireia Belmonte looks German , Esther Cañadas, super model, Oriol Elcacho, Vanessa Lorenzo looks like Diane Kruger,Joan Predola……well, i could we all day…

          • andrew says:

            “Atlanto-Med”, ok since you seem to be expert in anthropology you will know that “Mediterranean race” is also called “Ibero-Insular” because it’s very common in Iberia and Med islands like Sardinia. There are surely lighter types in Iberia, expecially Basque Country, Aragón and Catalunya but the vast majority of Iberians are Mediterraneans and very Southern European looking, far from this “Celtic” myth you guys made popular in internet forums.

          • lelo4 says:

            Iberians are lighter than Italians, deal with it. The only Italians similar to Iberians are the Northern ones. Southern Italians are genetically equidistant between Iberians/North Italians and Lebanese/Levantines and are similar to Jews and Aegean Islanders.

          • andrew says:

            Well, I already read this countless times in your repetitive posts when I was logged to that site. Now that it’s closed are you gonna making this site a new playground for your agenda? In real life Iberians, Southern Italians and Greeks have similar pigmentation and North Italians don’t look like Iberians at all, it’s just common sense. Also since you labeled Jack Gilinsky as Moroccan-looking you lost any credibility.

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