The Movie Star: Chris Hemsworth
Age 27
Nationality Australian
Hollywood CV Star Trek, Thor, Red Dawn, The Avengers
He's hot! Spill the deets Like most Australian actors, Chris started out in soap operas, Neighbours and Home and Away, until he hit the jackpot when he was cast as Captain Kirk's heroic dad, George, in JJ Abrams' Star Trek reboot.
"We really lucked out," gushed Abrams of having cast Chris. "He's so crazy handsome and he's so strapping with the classic leading man look. I sort of wish I had dirtied him up a little bit, messed his hair up a little bit." And it was that role in the hit flick that led to Kenneth Branagh offering him the lead in his monster hit, Thor - which sat atop the US box office for two weeks.
Breaking Hollywood Gaining 20lbs to play the Norse god of thunder, director Branagh picked Chris for the role, revealing, "Some people are at ease in front of the camera… their inner being puts very little between them and the audience. In some ways there's nothing between them and the audience and there's everything between them. And [Chris has got] sex appeal." Agreed!
What next? The hot Australian actor has signed on to play the role of the huntsman in the Kristen Stewart-starring fairytale-with-a-twist Snow White and The Huntsman, but first there's a little movie called The Avengers coming up - which is promising to be one of the biggest blockbusters Hollywood has ever seen.
The badboy: Alex Pettyfer
Age 21
Nationality British
Hollywood CV Wild Child, I Am Number Four, Beastly
So, what's this guy's problem? Alex may just be the guy who took Hollywood by storm, only to crash and burn thanks to his runaway mouth. The gorgeous Brit actor was recently described by a producer as, "Pick your words: ambitious, hungry, cocky, very ahead of himself," thanks to his on-set behaviour while filming I Am Number Four. The only problem is, that I Am… didn't set the box office alight as expected, and resulted in a very public falling out with his now ex-girlfriend, Glee's Dianna Agron.
Set to implode? Amid his messy split from Agron came the accusation that she had moved out of her home as she was afraid of Alex, with a source claiming he behaved like a "psycho loose cannon" and that he threatened her over the phone - something his rep denies. And add into the mix rumours of a fight with Black Swan actor Sebastian Stan and the fact that he recently blasted LA as a "socially disgusting insidious pool", and Alex is gaining quite the reputation in T-town.
The method actor: Michael Fassbender
Age 34
Nationality German
Hollywood CV 300, Eden Lake, Inglourious Basterds, Jane Eyre, X-Men: First Class
Bit of a latecomer, eh? Not really, although it was certainly Tarantino casting him as the stiff upper-lipped Lieutenant Archie Cox in Inglourious Basterds that skyrocketed Michael to Tinseltown-style fame. But the German-born actor first made his name in Steven Spielberg's award-winning 2001 television series Band of Brothers, before landing a slew of roles in TV shows. Playing the six-packed Stelios opposite Gerard Butler in 300 made Hollywood sit up and take notice, and Inglourious producer, Lawrence Bender sums up Michael's talent, by gushing, "It's such a wonderful thing to watch an actor take control of the room. There were a lot of people being considered, for the role. But he was a powerhouse. He just knocked us out."
The TV guy: Matt Bomer
Age 33
Nationality American
Hollywood CV Flightplan, Chuck, White Collar
He's a male model, right? Surprisingly not, given those spectacularly chiselled looks, but it won't surprise you to learn that Matthew was in the running to play Superman in the 2006 movie Superman Returns, when director Brett Ratner was attached to the project. However, the Texas native soon found his niche in a line of long-running US TV shows, including Guiding Light, Tru Calling and Chuck.
Hot under the collar Matt really came to prominence with his latest TV show, White Collar, in which he plays Neal Caffrey, a con artist who helps the FBI catch, well, other con artists, by letting them in on some of the tricks of the trade. Keen to tread the boards on a more regular basis, father-of-three Matt has also penned a TV pilot called Nashville and stars in plays stateside in between seasons of White Collar.
