32 Facts About Cary Elwes

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes is an English actor and writer.

Cary Elwes is known for his leading film roles as Westley in The Princess Bride, Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Men in Tights, and Dr Lawrence Gordon in the Saw film series.

Cary Elwes has appeared on television in a number of series including The X-Files, Seinfeld, From the Earth to the Moon, Psych, Life in Pieces, Stranger Things, and The Marvelous Mrs Maisel.

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes was born on 26 October 1962 in Westminster, London.

Cary Elwes is the youngest of three sons of portrait painter Dominic Elwes and interior designer and socialite Tessa Kennedy.

Cary Elwes's stepfather, Elliott Kastner, was an American film producer and the first American to set up independent film production in the United Kingdom.

Cary Elwes has English, Irish, Scottish, Croatian-Jewish, and Serbian ancestry, the latter two from his maternal grandmother, Daska McLean, whose second husband, Billy McLean, was an operative for Special Operations Executive during World War II.

One of Cary Elwes's relatives is the British miser John Cary Elwes, who was the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol, having been referenced by Charles Dickens himself in chapter six of his last completed novel, Our Mutual Friend.

Cary Elwes himself played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Cary Elwes was brought up as a Catholic and was an altar boy at Westminster Cathedral.

In 1975, when Cary Elwes was 13, his father committed suicide.

Cary Elwes was educated at Harrow School, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

When Cary Elwes introduced himself to the actor, Brando insisted on calling him "Rocky" after Rocky Marciano.

Cary Elwes made his acting debut in 1984 with Marek Kanievska's film Another Country, which was loosely based on the English boarding school exploits of British spies Burgess, Philby and MacLean.

Cary Elwes went on to play Guilford Dudley in the British historical drama film Lady Jane, opposite Helena Bonham Carter.

Cary Elwes was then cast as stable-boy-turned-swashbuckler Westley in Rob Reiner's fantasy-comedy The Princess Bride, which was based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman.

Cary Elwes played a rival driver to Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder.

Cary Elwes then appeared in supporting roles in such films as Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula, The Crush, The Jungle Book, Twister, Liar Liar, and Kiss the Girls.

Cary Elwes made an uncredited appearance as Sam Green, the man who introduced Andy Warhol to Edie Sedgwick, in the 2006 film Factory Girl.

In 2012, Cary Elwes starred in the independent drama The Citizen.

In 2016, Cary Elwes starred opposite Penelope Cruz in Fernando Trueba's Spanish-language period pic The Queen of Spain, a sequel to Trueba's 1998 drama The Girl of Your Dreams.

Cary Elwes made his first television appearance in 1996 as David Lookner on Seinfeld.

Cary Elwes had a recurring role in the final season of Chris Carter's hit series The X-Files as FBI Assistant Director Brad Follmer.

In 2014, Cary Elwes played Hugh Ashmeade, Director of the CIA, in the second season of the BYUtv series Granite Flats.

In May 2015, Cary Elwes was cast as Arthur Davenport, a shrewd and eccentric world-class collector of illegal art and antiquities in Crackle's first streaming network series drama, The Art of More, which explored the cutthroat world of premium auction houses.

In 2009, Cary Elwes reunited with Jason Alexander for the Indian film, Delhi Safari.

In 2009 Cary Elwes joined the cast of Robert Zemeckis's motion capture adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol portraying five roles.

In 2003 Cary Elwes portrayed Kerry Max Cook in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated in New York, directed by Bob Balaban.

Cary Elwes said he was promised a minimum of one percent of the producers' net profits of the film and did not receive the full amount.

Cary Elwes met photographer Lisa Marie Kurbikoff in 1991 at a chili cook-off in Malibu, California, and they became engaged in 1997.

In March 2021, Cary Elwes posted on his social media accounts that his younger sister Milica had died after battling Stage 4 cancer for more than a year.

Cary Elwes is known for his feud with Republican Texas Senator and Princess Bride fan Ted Cruz.