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formiko
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 Message 65 of 98
04 May 2008 at 3:21am | IP Logged 
georgedick wrote:
William Camden wrote:
The German actress Franka Potente (best-known film probably Lola rennt) spoke
good English when interviewed on British TV. I believe she also knows French and Italian.


Her best known films in the US now are probably the Bourne Identity series! In which she also spoke great English...
:-)


She was fantastic in Der Krieger und die Kaiserin. I had a slight crush on her, so I rented all her movies. ;)
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 Message 66 of 98
20 July 2008 at 6:45am | IP Logged 
moisa wrote:
I heard Jodie Foster can speak mandarin and french. A french speaker and I saw her speaking in french in a making of and my friend told me she speaks like a french from Paris, no foreign accent at all.


I am fairly sure she has quite good knowledge of Italian, too. I saw her on an Italian TV programme, and while she said she was uncomfortable with her Italian speaking skills and for that reason she answered in English, she was perfectly able to understand the interviewer without any translation.
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 Message 67 of 98
22 July 2008 at 2:46pm | IP Logged 
Serpent wrote:
georgedick wrote:
Add Viggo Mortensen to the list... He's staring in major movie that just
came out in Spain, Alatriste. According to IMDB, he "speaks fluent English,
Spanish and Danish, but he also speaks Swedish and Norwegian reasonably
well."

Here he is being interviewed on a Spanish news program.
According to wikipedia he "is fluent in English, Danish and Spanish, and conversant in Norwegian. He also speaks French, Italian and Swedish reasonably well."
It was also mentioned earlier in this thread that he was the Swedish national hockey team's interpreter at the '80 Olympics, so if Swedish is really his weakest language, as the list suggests, I'm really impressed!


I wonder if, after his performance in "Eastern Promises", he picked up more Russian. That movie reignited my interest in learning Russian....
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Alvinho
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 Message 68 of 98
26 July 2008 at 10:02pm | IP Logged 
Joaquim de Oliveira, a Portuguese actor who acted in important films like "Behind Enemy Lines", "Desperado" and so on....

English, French, Italian, Spanish and German

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0206862/

Elisha Cuthbert, the sweet blond girl who acted in "The Girl Next Door" and "24" speaks English and French, as she was born in Canada and grew up in Montreal....

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193846/bio




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 Message 69 of 98
27 July 2008 at 10:06am | IP Logged 
Chyna from WWE speaks English, Spanish, German and French.
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 Message 70 of 98
28 July 2008 at 7:42pm | IP Logged 
Does anyone know of any young (<20 y/o) thespian polyglots?
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William Camden
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 Message 71 of 98
08 August 2008 at 4:57am | IP Logged 
It may not make him a polyglot, but Tommy Lee Jones uses quite a lot of Spanish at the start of Men In Black. He is trying to identify an alien among a group of Mexicans crossing into the USA illegally and finds one who doesn't understand Spanish. Because he isn't Mexican, he is an alien called "Mikey".
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Alvinho
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 Message 72 of 98
08 August 2008 at 2:29pm | IP Logged 
Tom Cruise's performance in "Mission Impossible" he speaks Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin and writes in German.....

Pierce Brosnan in "007" speaks Russian....


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