Chris Hemsworth in Home and Away

Before he ascended to Hollywood heaven, playing the god Thor in several Marvel films, Chris did a three-year stint as Kim Hyde on Home and Away. And oh, what three years they were, featuring an ocean rescue, a car crash, a helicopter crash, an ecstasy overdose and switched paternity tests. Poor Kim is jilted by his bride, dates a serial killer, marries his psychologist and finds out his dad is a murderer. When he leaves Summer Bay, we can hardly blame him.  

All that emotion must have tuckered him out, because in this scene – where he is facing losing both his pregnant girlfriend Hayley (Rebecca Cartwright) and their baby, because she’s had a vision of their future and is refusing a life-saving operation – he’s curiously unmoved.  

When Hemsworth went to Hollywood, it wasn’t long before he hit the big time as Thor (a role for which he’d hit the gym big-time, adding 20 kilos of muscle to his frame). Although his acting has certainly developed since his Summer Bay days, he’s stuck mostly to big-screen spectacles like Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024), Men in Black: International (2019) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012).  

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