Elsa Pataky's Real Name: Elsa Pataky
Elsa Pataky → Elsa Pataky
Quick answer: Elsa Pataky is known professionally as Elsa Pataky. The Library of Congress heading is "Pataky, Elsa, 1976-." In an April 2011 El País interview she was identified as a Spanish actress appearing in Fast & Furious 5 with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker (El País).
Real name and early life
The heading and variant forms in the Library of Congress record include Pataky, Elsa; Pataki, Elsa; and Lafuente Pataky, Elsa, the last of those drawn in part from Wikipedia and IMDb citations. Because those fuller forms were not independently confirmed in the sources read in full here, this page keeps the public name Elsa Pataky in the title and treats 1976 as the established year. In the El País session she described Spain as her country and the place where she had grown up, and said she expected she would eventually live there again.
Career highlights
El País introduced her in April 2011 as a Spanish actress then appearing in Fast & Furious 5 (also identified in that interview as Fast & Furious 5: Rio Heist). She discussed the experience of working on a large Hollywood action film, including the shooting of the fifth Fast & Furious installment, said working on an action picture had been a dream because she was a fan of speed and cars, and compared the same-day release of that film and Thor in light-hearted terms. This page does not add unsourced later franchise titles or unsourced earlier Spanish television credits. A Library of Congress citation records a credit on the 2009 film Máncora, confirming screen work before the 2011 Hollywood interview.
She also told El País that she felt a genuine vocation for acting and would work with Spanish directors, including, if offered a good role, almost any of them, and that she admired Martin Scorsese among American directors. Those remarks are recorded as her own comments in 2011, not as later credits.
Name notes for searchers
Elsa Pataky is the professional name used by El País and as the established Library of Congress heading. Searchers looking for the Spanish actress in Fast & Furious 5 are usually aiming at the same person. A library variant, Elsa Pataki, reflects an alternate spelling.
FAQ
What is Elsa Pataky's real name?
She is known as Elsa Pataky. Library of Congress variants include the spelling Pataki and a fuller form, Lafuente Pataky, that was not independently confirmed here.
When was Elsa Pataky born?
The Library of Congress heading dates her birth to 1976.
What is Elsa Pataky known for?
El País identified her in 2011 as a Spanish actress appearing in Fast & Furious 5 with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. A library record also cites the 2009 film Máncora.
Where did she grow up?
She told El País that Spain was her country and the place where she had grown up.