Liam Hemsworth

Liam Hemsworth (born 13 January 1990) is an Australian actor, who is best known as Gale Hawthorne in The Hunger Games film series. He also starred in films such as The Last Song, The Expendables 2 and Independence Day: Resurgence.
==Early life==
Hemsworth was born in Melbourne, Australia, to Leonie (née van Os), an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counsellor. He has two older brothers, Chris Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth, who are also actors. His maternal grandfather is a Dutch immigrant, and his other ancestry is English, Irish, Scottish, and German. Hemsworth has said that though there is competition for jobs among them, it is friendly: "We are brothers and we are always competitive, but it is a good thing, it pushes us and we are always happy whenever someone books something."
When Hemsworth was in year 8 high school, he and his family relocated to Phillip Island, a small Australian island southeast of Melbourne where he spent much of his time there surfing with his brothers. In March 2009, Hemsworth moved to the United States to pursue his acting career. He and his brother Chris first stayed in the guest house of Chris's manager, William Ward, before renting their own Los Angeles apartment.
==Career==
===2007–2010: Career beginnings===
Prior to becoming an actor, Hemsworth laid floors for six months. He began to seriously consider following his elder brothers' footsteps in high school by participating in school plays. Eventually, Hemsworth retained an agent. He attended his first audition at the age of sixteen and began his career in 2007 with guest appearances on the shows Home and Away and McLeod's Daughters. The week of 8 July 2007, Hemsworth began filming episodes for Neighbours, an Australian soap opera his brother Luke had previously starred in. Hemsworth's character, Josh Taylor, was a recurring character from 2007 to 2008. In the show, Josh was an athletic paraplegic who supported and began a relationship with character Bridget Parker after she was paralysed down one side of her body in a car crash. In 2008, Hemsworth began acting on the children's television show The Elephant Princess, playing "Marcus", the lead guitarist of the protagonist's band. Hemsworth later had roles in the television series Satisfaction and starred in the British film Triangle. He also made a brief appearance as an MIT student in the film Knowing.
In 2009, Hemsworth was selected to act opposite Sylvester Stallone in Stallone's 2010 film, The Expendables, but his character was written out of the script (Hemsworth later co-starred in The Expendables 2). Hemsworth's brother, Chris, told Movieline that just a few hours after Hemsworth learned he would not appear in The Expendables, director Kenneth Branagh called to ask him to test for the lead role in the 2011 film Thor. Hemsworth moved to the States in March 2009 for screen tests. Though he eventually lost the role to Chris in May, Disney announced later the same week that Hemsworth had landed the part of Will Blakelee in the 2010 drama The Last Song, based on the Nicholas Sparks novel by the same name. Hemsworth plays the love interest of Miley Cyrus's character in the film. Nikki Finke reported that Hemsworth had been in Los Angeles for just three weeks and had not yet found an agent when he was cast. Hemsworth next appeared in the music video for Cyrus' "When I Look at You" which was recorded on 16 August 2009.
In September 2009, Hemsworth appeared at a dinner event to promote Foxtel, an Australian pay television company. In March 2010, Details magazine selected Hemsworth as one of their predictions for "The Next Generation of Hollywood's Leading Men". Later that month, it was announced that Hemsworth was in negotiations to star in Arabian Nights, a 3D action film that will be directed by Chuck Russell for Inferno Entertainment. It was later confirmed that he will be starring in the movie. He has also reportedly been offered the lead role in Northern Lights after Taylor Lautner withdrew from the David Ellison-financed project.
Hemsworth was the Nickelodeon Australian Kids' Choice Awards 2010 host. He and Miley Cyrus won the "Fave Kiss" category.
Hemsworth starred in the music video for "Colder Weather" by the Zac Brown Band.
===2011–present: The Hunger Games series and beyond===
On 4 April 2011, Lionsgate announced Hemsworth to be one of the leads, Gale Hawthorne, in The Hunger Games, which was released in 2012. In June 2011, he became attached to war drama Love and Honor which also stars Aimee Teegarden and Teresa Palmer.
In 2013, Hemsworth appeared in Empire State, with Emma Roberts, and Paranoia, co-starring Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman and Amber Heard. He reprised his role, Gale Hawthorne, in three sequels to The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, released in November 2013, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1, released in November 2014, and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, released in November 2015.
In 2012, Hemsworth attended a benefit dinner organized non-profit organization Australians in Film with his then fiancée Miley Cyrus. It was their first public appearance together as an engaged couple.
In 2015, Hemsworth portrayed the love interest of Kate Winslet's character in the Australian literary adaptation The Dressmaker, which was filmed in Victoria in the summer of 2014. Hemsworth starred in director Roland Emmerich's 2016 film Independence Day: Resurgence. In 2019, following a three-year absence, he played a fantasy version of a romantic comedy leading man in the film Isn't It Romantic, and starred in the action crime film Killerman.
Hemsworth currently appears on the horror TV series, Most Dangerous Game, for Quibi, the short-form streaming platform. Hemsworth plays the lead role as a terminally ill man trying to provide for his pregnant wife before he dies.
In 2022, Hemsworth is set to star in the Netflix film Lonely Planet with Laura Dern. In October 2022, Netflix announced that Hemsworth would be replacing Henry Cavill as Geralt of Rivia from the start of Season 4 of The Witcher.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Role 	Notes
2009	Knowing 	Spencer 	
2009	Triangle 	Victor 	
2010	The Last Song 	Will Blakelee 	
2012	The Hunger Games 	Gale Hawthorne 	
2012	The Expendables 2 	Billy "The Kid" Timmons	
2013	Love and Honor 	Mickey Wright 	
2013	Paranoia 	Adam Cassidy 	
2013	Empire State 	Chris Potamitis 	
2013	The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 	Gale Hawthorne 	
2014	Cut Bank 	Dwayne McLaren 	
2014	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1	Gale Hawthorne 	
2015	The Dressmaker 	Ted McSwiney 	
2015	The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2	Gale Hawthorne 	
2016	Independence Day: Resurgence 	Jake Morrison 	
2016	The Duel 	David Kingston 	
2019	Isn't It Romantic 	Blake 	
2019	Killerman 	Moe 	
2020	Arkansas 	Kyle 	
2022	Poker Face 	Michael Nankervis 	
2024	Land of Bad 	Kinney 	
==External link==
*Liam Hemsworth on Wikipedia 
Category:1990 births
Category:Living people
Category:Australian actors
Category:Australian male film actors
Category:21st-century Australian actors
Category:Australian male television actors
Category:Australian expatriate male actors in the United States
Category:Male actors from Melbourne