Thor star Chris Hemsworth reveals missing Logie mystery has been solved

Hollywood megastar Chris Hemsworth has lifted the lid on what happened to the missing Logie he picked up during his humble beginnings with Aussie soap Home and Away.

You could call it the case of the missing Logie.

Chris Hemsworth has detailed the mystery surrounding his 2005 Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor. He also won Most Popular New Talent Male that year and the Most Popular Actor Silver trophy again in 2006.

Having at one stage feared he’d lost the heavy silverware, Hemsworth found it in the most unlikely of places.

“So my Logie, it is funny … I had no idea where it was,” the Thor star told Confidential.

“My mate (trainer) Luke Zocchi, it was at his house. It was at my parents house in the toilet at one point. It was in the living room at another mates house and then it miraculously turned up recently.”

Chris Hemsworth after winning the The Most Popular New Talentat the 2005 Logie Awards.

He continued: “My wife (actor Elsa Pataky) was like, ‘what is this?’. I said, ‘it is a Logie’. And she was like, ‘a what?’ and had the same reaction that most non-Australians have. It is now in my house, in the toy box for the kids.”
Hemsworth, 39, of course lives in Byron Bay with his wife and their three children.

He got his start in the business playing Kim Hyde on TV soap Home and Away from 2004 to 2007 before going on to become one of our biggest names in Hollywood with roles in Thor of course and films including Star Trek, Snow White and the Huntsman, Men in Black: International, Extraction, Ghostbusters and Rush.

Actor Chris Hemsworth with Alyssa McCelland in a scene from Home and Away.

He has won countless awards over his 20-year career.

On Wednesday, he was awarded the Trailblazer Award at Australian television and film’s big night, the annual AACTA Awards at Sydney’s Hordern Pavilion.

“It is very special, absolutely,” he said. “I started on Home and Away and now to be here 15 years later and working and very thankful and excited for the opportunity and to be able to live out this childhood dream is wonderful. I am honoured.”

Chris Hemsworth accepts the AACTA Trailblazer Award on Wednesday. Picture: James Gourley/Getty Images

Hemsworth meanwhile revealed that his favourite Australian film ever is Peter Weir war drama, Gallipoli, that starred Mel Gibson and Mark Lee.

“Especially the final sequence with the music,” he said. “Mel Gibson is running to the finish line to tyry and get there in time and just doesn’t quite make it. It is a beautiful film, a wonderful film.”

His favourite Aussie television show ever is of course, Home and Away.

“Not because I was on it but because it is sustenance for Australian entertainment,” he said. “I am biased obviously but it was my acting school, you know, it was the closest thing I came to an acting school and I loved it and I love the show. I love the fact that people get to, people with some experience, people with no experience, get to come in and out of that show and develop skills and tools to go on further to something else. And it is a very humbling experience too. I learnt the vast majority of what I do now during that time.”