 She has appeared in the films "Snakes on a Plane" (2006), "Giallo" (2009) and "Give 'Em Hell, Malone" (2009).She also starred in the Spanish film "Di Di Hollywood" (2010).Pataky was born Elsa Lafuente Medianu in Madrid, Spain, the daughter of José Francisco Lafuente, a Spanish biochemist, and Cristina Medianu Pataky, a Romanian-born publicist of Romanian and Hungarian ancestry.