Born on January 13, 1990, in Melbourne, Australia, Liam Hemsworth is the younger brother of actors Chris Hemsworth and Luke Hemsworth and the son of Leonie, an English teacher, and Craig Hemsworth, a social-services counselor; the Hemsworth family lived primarily on Phillip Island, a small island located south of Melbourne. Following in the footsteps of his older brothers, who went into acting in their teens, Liam scored his first audition at age 16 and appeared on the Australian TV series "Home and Away" (1988) and "McLeod’s Daughters" (2001) before taking on a recurring character role on the soap opera "Neighbours" (1985), in which his brother Luke had also appeared. Roles on TV shows "The Elephant Princess" (2008) and "Satisfaction" (2007) followed before Liam moved to the United States to pursue a big-screen career.