Hollywood Polyglot

And another video of Edward Norton, this time speaking Spanish!

According to the Oscar nominated actor, director, producer, and philanthropist’s IMDB page, he speaks Spanish in addition to speaking Japanese and French fluently!

Check out this scene from the film crime thriller, Pride and Glory.

American actress Kathleen Turner rose to fame during the 1980s, after roles in the Hollywood films Body Heat, Peggy Sue Got Married, Romancing the Stone, The War of the Roses, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Serial Mom and Prizzi’s Honor.

The actress is also fluent in Spanish. Although born in America, she was raised in Canada, Cuba (during Fidel Castro’s power), Venezuela, and England as her parents were career diplomats.

In this video, at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival, she speaks on the red carpet about the film and her lead role in The Perfect Family.

Fan video of Tom Hiddleston speaking Greek, Italian, Spanish & French! 

Polyglot Tom Hiddleston doing Spanish press for The Avengers! How would you rate his español?

Gwyneth Paltrow interviewed for her role in the 2011 Steven Soderbergh film, Contagion, with a Spanish news station. 

Has anyone seen this movie and didn’t it make you want to wash your hands ten times afterwards?

Actress from the Fox TV series, Breaking In, Odette Annable (née Yustman) is fluent in Spanish. With a Cuban mother and Italian-French father who grew up in Nicaragua, Spanish was her first language she knew before learning English in grade school.

She made her acting debut playing a young, Spanish-speaking student named Rosa in Kindergarten Cop, and later moved on to various television shows and movies such as South Beach and October Road. She is most known for her breakthrough role in Cloverfield and the horror flick, The Unborn. 

Odette married Brothers & Sisters actor Dave Annable in 2010. In their wedding vows, she made him promise to learn Spanish and pass the language to her kids one day.

From Latina.com, “I made Dave promise me that he’d learn Spanish. He’s got the Rosetta Stone and I’m trying to teach him. He knows what a tenedor is, un cuchillo, una botella de agua, but he’s got a lot of work to do.” 

More Shakira showcasing her love for languages.

It has been known that Shakira is interested in world history and frequently studies the history and languages of the countries she visits.

In the summer of 2007 after her Oral Fixation tour, she attended a class in Los Angeles at UCLA, on the History of Western Civilization. She used her middle and last names, Isabel Mebarak, and told the professor she was visiting from Colombia so as to avoid being recognized as a celebrity. 

Colombian born music artist Shakira took the Latin America music scene by storm in the 90s. She is known for her rock and roll vocals and style in addition to showcasing her Latin and Arabic influences with her own twist on belly dancing.

Shakira speaks fluent Spanish, English and Portuguese. In interviews, she has been known to speak Italian, French, and Arabic as well. 

Great interview of Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones doing their best español promoting Men In Black II. 

American socialite, fashion model and heiress to the Hearst corporation, Amanda Randolph Hearst, is bilingual in Spanish.

Hearst attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut and graduated with a degree in Art History from Boston College.

She is currently a model for IMG Models agency.

In the tabloids, she has been linked to Colombian financier Alejandro Santo Domingo and Luis Medina, a Spanish count.

Supermodel Gisele Bündchen is a Brazilian model of German origin. 

Growing up in Horizontina, Brazil, her first language is Portuguese. She also learned German as a young child but has said to have forgotten most of it. 

It’s not known where she learned Spanish, probably in school or perhaps just through being exposed to the South American culture. Portuguese and Spanish words are very similar. Though the accent is dead on, some commented on the incorrect grammar and mix of Portuñol (Portuguese and Spanish). Either way, it’s a worthy attempt of speaking español.