Chris Hemsworth Says Wife Elsa Pataky 'Put Aside Her Own Dreams to Support Mine': 'Forever in Your Debt'

Elsa Pataky and Chris Hemsworth on May 23, 2024

The actor said to his wife, "These special occasions and events, none of it is special without you by my side. I love you."

Chris Hemsworth is eternally grateful for wife Elsa Pataky.

Just before his new movie Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga opens in theaters, the actor, 40, appeared in Los Angeles on Thursday, May 23, to receive a star on Hollywood Boulevard.

The actor is the 2,781st entertainment industry figure to receive a star on the iconic street. Mad Maxdirector George Miller and Hemsworth's Marvel costar Robert Downey Jr. joined to celebrate the dedication.

During Hemsworth's speech, the actor acknowledged his wife Pataky, 47, whom accompanied him to the event alongside their three children: India Rose, 12, and twins Sasha and Tristan, 10.

"I want to say thank you to my beautiful wife, who has been here for my entire career basically by my side, endlessly encouraging and supportive," he said. "And it doesn't get lost on me that she put aside her own dreams in order to support mine and, again, [I am] forever in your debt."

"The fact [is] that nothing that I do, any of these moments, these special occasions and events, none of it is special without you by my side. I love you," he added.

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Downey, 59, arrived at the ceremony with an amusing list of "roasts" from the pair's other Avengers costars, each describing him in three words.

"First off, [Jeremy] Renner says 'absurdly annoyingly amazing.' [Mark] Ruffalo came in strong with 'Friend from work,' " Downey Jr. said. "That's a callback, now I get it. Scarlett [Johansson] got to the heart of it with 'sensitive leading lady.' Captain America [Chris Evans] calls him 'second-best Chris.' "

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Hemsworth and Pataky's twins also joined their parents in May for a rare red carpet appearance at the Australian premiere of Furiosa, which both their parents appear in. In the prequel to 2015’s Mad Max: Fury RoadHemsworth plays warlord Dementus, a villainous adversary of Anya Taylor-Joy’s Furiosa.

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"I've got to know him as a professional working and I was incredibly impressed by the way that he worked well beyond my expectations and the way that he brought people together," Miller, 79, said of Hemsworth in a speech to kick off the Walk of Fame ceremony. "He's a great actor and I'm so happy to say he's a great human being."

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga is in theaters May 24. Hemsworth voices Optimus Prime in the animated Transformers One, in theaters Sept. 20.

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