By Wonderwall.com Editors
11:00am PDT, Aug 12, 2023
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Chris Hemsworth has been delighting fans with his chiseled physique and piercing blue eyes since 2004, when he joined the cast of the popular soap opera "Home and Away" in his native Australia. He's since become an international megastar, husband and doting dad of three — but he's still as easy on the eyes as ever. Join us as we celebrate the star's 40th birthday on Aug. 11, 2023, with a look back at the most drool-worthy photos from throughout his career…
An adorable Chris Hemsworth was just 22 when he hit a Sydney premiere in January 2006 wearing a beanie, a couple necklaces and an earnest, hands-in-pockets pose. Baby face!
Keep reading for more must-see photos of the hunky Aussie…
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Chris Hemsworth looked like a stand-in for Brad Pitt's "Legends of the Fall" character with his long locks and smoldering eyes at a pre-Golden Globes party in Los Angeles in January 2012.
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Chris Hemsworth proved that Trekkies can be hotties too when he gave the Vulcan salute at the premiere of "Star Trek" in Los Angeles in April 2009. Chris had a small role in his U.S. movie debut, playing Captain James Kirk's dad, George Kirk, in the opening scenes.
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On the rise! Fresh-faced Chris Hemsworth was in fine form when he showed off his trophy for most popular new male talent at the TV Week Logie Awards in Melbourne, Australia, in May 2005.
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Oh, brother! Chris Hemsworth and younger sib Liam Hemsworth celebrated Liam's milestone 21st birthday in Los Angeles in January 2011, seven years before the "Hunger Games" actor's ill-fated marriage to Miley Cyrus.
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Chris Hemsworth and Isabel Lucas met on the set of the Australian soap "Home and Away" and dated from 2005 to 2008. More than a decade after they broke up, Isabel — pictured with Chris in Melbourne back in May 2006 — publicly denied Australian media reports that she was secretly hooking up with Chris's brother Liam Hemsworth after his split from wife Miley Cyrus in 2019. "Obviously we are just good friends," she told the Daily Telegraph. "The Hemsworths are a beautiful family."
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With his varsity letter jacket and buzz cut, Chris Hemsworth oozed boyish charm in the 2011 comedy-horror film "The Cabin in the Woods." He played a college student who visits a remote forest cabin where he and his friends are targeted by both zombies and technicians who are manipulating events from an underground facility.
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They make a pretty pair! Chris Hemsworth was introduced to Spanish model and actress Elsa Pataky by a talent agent in early 2010. They went public with their romance that September in Los Angeles (pictured here). "There was no light-bulb moment," he told ELLE in 2010. "From the first time we met, we just made sense. She's fun. She's outgoing, and she has a sense of humor and a passionate attitude toward life, which is nice to try to keep up with."
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He looks good on horseback, too! Chris Hemsworth cut a dashing figure as he filmed "The Huntsman" near London in July 2015.
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Sibling revelry! It was a Chris Hemsworth sandwich when he was flanked by little bro Liam Hemsworth and big bro Luke Hemsworth at the premiere of Chris's comedy film "Vacation" in Los Angeles in July 2015.
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Just months after their red carpet debut, Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky tied the knot over Christmas weekend in 2010 in his native Australia. The impossibly gorgeous newlyweds are pictured at a New York Fashion Week event in February 2011, less than two months after getting hitched.
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Chris Hemsworth got totally tubular and bared his six-pack (or is that a 12-pack?) during a surfing outing in Australia's Byron Bay in April 2016.
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Chris Hemsworth and Elsa Pataky married the same year they met, so it was no big shock when their fast-tracked romance led them to quickly start a family. Chris put a loving hand on Elsa's baby bump at the London premiere of "The Avengers" in April 2012 — and just a few weeks later in May, they welcomed their first child, daughter India Rose. The following year, in November 2013, the pair confirmed they were expecting again!
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He can chop our firewood anytime… Chris Hemsworth was in fine form as the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart's rescuer-turned-ally, in "Snow White and the Huntsman," the 2012 retelling of the classic fairy tale.
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Who's the fairest of them all? Chris Hemsworth more than held his own with two of the world's most beautiful stars, Kristen Stewart and Charlize Theron, at the London premiere of "Snow White and the Huntsman" in May 2012.
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Fatherhood looks good on Chris Hemsworth, who took a stroll with newborn daughter India Rose in Los Angeles in July 2012.
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A bonus Chris! Chris Hemsworth and Chris Evans, as Marvel superheroes Thor and Captain America, gave audiences double the eye candy in 2012's "The Avengers."
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Sunglasses at night works for Chris Hemsworth, who donned aviator shades in New York City in March 2011. We give him two thumbs up!
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Lucky lady! Olivia Wilde looked every inch the blushing bride as she filmed a wedding scene with Chris Hemsworth for "Rush," the 2012 film in which he played Formula One driver James Hunt and she played his first wife, Suzy Miller.
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The best thing about parenthood for Chris Hemsworth? "I think [it] brings out the child in all of us," the actor (seen here sharing a laugh with daughter India Rose at the Commonwealth Games on Australia's Gold Coast in April 2018) told Parade. "It reminds you of the fascination you had with things, and how you can spend hours just being with someone. It's amazing." Chris and wife Elsa Pataky revealed in November 2013, just 18 months after India's birth, that they were expecting again. Keep reading for the surprise they kept to themselves…
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It's twins! Chris Hemsworth and pregnant wife Elsa Pataky — pictured at the Oscars in March 2014 — welcomed sons Sasha and Tristan in Los Angeles just 16 days later.
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Ahoy, hottie! Chris Hemsworth slipped into character as a rugged seaman in 2015's "In The Heart of the Sea."
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Life's a beach for Chris Hemsworth, who hoisted a surfboard in Perth, Australia, in March 2019.
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Chris Hemsworth likes to make his work a family affair, like he did when he brought brother Luke Hemsworth and Luke's wife, Samantha Hemsworth (left), wife Elsa Pataky, mom Leonie Hemsworth and dad Craig Hemsworth to the premiere of "Thor: Love and Thunder" in Hollywood in June 2022.
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Chris Hemsworth's superhero body has launched a thousand Thor-inspired diet and workout plans — and inspired Chris himself to launch a fitness app, Centr, with his trainer Luke Zocchi and stuntman Bobby Holland Hanton. "I've had to train my body for certain roles — bulking up or slimming down — and I was forced to educate myself on how best to do that safely and efficiently," Chris (pictured in 2015's "Avengers: Age of Ultron") explains on the Centr website. "I spent a lot of time trying to figure it out on my own, searching the internet … but there's just so much information out there. Centr is my answer to that."
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Even a retro 'do and dated vest-shirt combo in the 2015 comedy film "Vacation" couldn't dampen Chris Hemsworth's hotness quotient.
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Excuse us while we swoon… Chris Hemsworth was dapper perfection at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles in March 2014.
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And he's funny too! "Holding my little man's hand and asking him the age old question. 'What do you want to be when you grow up' 'Dad i wanna be Superman' Lucky I have two other kids," Chris Hemsworth captioned this photo with one of his young sons — who sported a red cape while the actor flaunted his ripped arms — that he posted on Instagram in May 2021.
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Chris Hemsworth scores a perfect 10 for his form while jogging during a New York City photo shoot in December 2019.
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An Aussie hottie at an Aussie landmark: Chris Hemsworth posed at the Sydney Opera House to launch a Tourism Australia campaign in October 2019. Book us a flight now!
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"Being a father is certainly a task," Chris Hemsworth told People magazine in December 2021. "But the best one that I could ever ask for. Being home, being with the family, that's what it's about." He looked happy (and handsome) with wife Elsa Pataky and their twin boys, Tristan and Sasha, at the Sydney premiere of "Thor: Love and Thunder" in June 2022.
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Friendly skies indeed! Brand ambassador Chris Hemsworth showed off his rugged side, striking a pose in front of a seaplane at a TAG Heuer watch collection launch in Sydney in June 2019.
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He may be obscenely hot, but Chris Hemsworth — seen here at the Hollywood premiere of "Thor: Love and Thunder" in June 2022 — hasn't let his looks go to his head. After he was crowned People's Sexiest Man Alive in 2014, the dad of three joked to the magazine that the title "bought me a couple of weeks of bragging rights around the house. I can just say to [wife Elsa Pataky], 'Now remember, this is what the people think, so I don't need to do the dishes anymore, I don't need to change nappies. I'm above that. I've made it now."
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Looking at Chris Hemsworth wearing nothing but board shorts in Sydney in January 2019, we can see where his "Thor: Love and Thunder" co-star Natalie Portman was coming from when she revealed that during a school run (her two kids went to school with Chris's children in Australia during production), the hunky dad had to hide behind a tree because of the attention he attracts. "I'm small and can kind of camouflage with the moms," she said on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" in June 2022. "And then he comes in, he's like a Greek god walking through."
