Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Hollywood hotties who are bilingual


Emma Watson: The 22-year-old actress was actually born in Paris. Emma developed her adorable British accent when she moved to Oxford with her mother shortly after the split. The fashion-forward starlet has recently returned to her French roots as the face of lancome's in love collection.
Stana Katic: Believe it or not, this stunner speaks Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, French, and Italian.

Actor Will Smith is known to give interviews in Spanish.

Actress Sandra Bullock was born and raised in the U.S., but she speaks fluent German.

Alexander Skarsgard plays a 1,000-year-old Viking vampire on HBO's True Blood, this tall drink of TruBlood is 100% Scandinavian.

Natalie Portman is fluent in Hebrew, along with four other languages: Spanish, German, Japanese and (a little) French.

British-born actor Orlando Bloom's mother actually ran a language school for foreign students.

Kate Bosworth is fluent in EspaƱol.

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio's mother was German so it makes sense that Leo is fluent in German.

Jodie Foster is really, really smart. Anyone shocked she speaks fluent French? We didn't think so.

Colin Firth British-born actor speaks fluent Italian. In 2010, he showed off his skills, giving an interview in Italian during the Venice Film Festival.

Nina Dobrev from tv series Vampire Diaries is fluent in Bulgarian.

Pennsylvania-born Bradley Cooper looks like your typical all-American guy, but it turns out he's something of a mutt. His mom's Italian, his dad's Irish, and he speaks... French.

Blonde bombshell Charlize Theron hails from the lush landscape of South Africa, where she grew up studying ballet and speaking Afrikaans.

As children, both Ben and Casey Affleck lived in Mexico, so it's no surprise they picked up the Spanish easily.

Actress Gwyneth Paltrow speaks fluent Spanish, thanks to a year as a foreign exchange student during her high school years.

Viggo Mortensen is one talented man. The actor speaks several languages fluently, including Danish (he's a dual American-Danish citizen), Spanish and some Italian and French.

Actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt loves French - and he speaks it fluently.

No huge surprise that Johnny Depp speaks fluent French: He's lived in Paris for over a decade with his longtime partner, French model Vanessa Paradis.