Chris Hemsworth is an Australian actor. He is best known for his roles as Kim Hyde in the Australian TV series Home and Away and as Thor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Thor , The Avengers , Thor The Dark World and Avengers Age of Ultron . He has also appeared in the science fiction action film Star Trek , the thriller adventure A Perfect Getaway , the horror comedy The Cabin in the Woods , the dark fantasy action film Snow White and the Huntsman , the war film Red Dawn and the biographical sports drama film Rush . Hemsworths brothers, Luke and Liam, are also actors.
Hemsworth was born in Melbourne, to Leonie, an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a socialservices counsellor. He is the middle of three boys his brothers Luke and Liam are also actors. His maternal grandfather is a Dutch immigrant. He was raised both in Melbourne and in the Australian Outback in Bulman, Northern Territory. He has stated, My earliest memories were on the cattle stations up in the Outback, and then we moved back to Melbourne and then back out there and then back again. Certainly most of my childhood was in Melbourne but probably my most vivid memories were up there in Bulman with crocodiles and buffalo. Very different walks of life. He attended high school at Heathmont College before his family again returned to the Northern Territory, and then moved a few years later to Phillip Island.
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