Thor Cast

Thor Cast

Meet the Cast

Thor (Chris Hemsworth)

"I'm The God Here!"On the surface, Thor is exactly, precisely what we think heroes should be. Tall, handsome, impossibly strong, and happy to go out and bash his people's enemies because…well, be...

Loki (Tom Hiddleston)

Oily smile? Check. Restless, conniving eyes? Check. Plans of world domination? Check.Yup: Loki's our villain.If you check out Loki in the original comics from the 1960's, he's a supremely boring ch...

Jane Foster (Natalie Portman)

Me: Thor. You: Jane.No action movie would be complete without a little romance, right? Meet Jane. Thor is her Tarzan…and she's Thor's none-too-plain Jane.She's also a physicist, which is the reas...

Odin (Anthony Hopkins)

Cyclops Is TopsLike Thor, Odin comes from mythology, and a lot of his traits are ported over straight from Norse mythology-land. The OG Odin had one eye, raven spies, and even an eight-legged horse...

Erik Selvig (Stellan Skarsgard)

Thor has Odin to mentor him. Loki has his own raging ego to mentor him. And Jane has Erik. Erik's Jane's father's friend, and he's here to help her with her research…and provide plenty of plot ex...

Heimdall (Idris Elba)

In some ways, Heimdall's a walking plot device, able to get characters from Point A to Point B with his CGI sword-in-the-stone gizmo. In the myths, Heimdall was the silent guardian of Asgard, keepi...

Lady Sif (Jaimie Alexander)

According to the myths, Lady Sif was Thor's wife, with golden hair and eyes only for him. The comic book version is a little more complicated. Her hair is black for starters—a trick played on her...

The Warriors Three (Josh Dallas, Tadanobu Asano, and Ray Stevenson)

Most heroes have one sidekick, but when you're the god of thunder, you go big or go home. On top of Sif, he has three other guys who get to be his best bud: Fandral (Josh Dallas), Hogun (Tadanobu A...

Darcy Lewis (Kat Dennings)

Hey, Thor has loads of sidekicks—why shouldn't his girlfriend have one too? Darcy is Jane's intern, there to take notes, carry heavy equipment and do all of the other things academic types requir...

Agent Coulson (Clark Gregg)

Do Coulson's scenes feel a little tacked on to you? Like they're coming in from another movie that has nothing to do with kings of Asgard, frost giant stepsons, and "but I want to rule all beneath...

Frigga (Rene Russo)

Frigga's Odin's wife, and frankly speaking she doesn't have much to do here…save for one big scene. Most of the rest of the time, she's all 1950's First Lady: she smiles and waves and being seen...