1. Cary Elwes starred as Westley in The Princess Bride, and had lead roles in films such as Robin Hood: Men in Tights and the Saw series.
33 Facts About Cary Elwes
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Cary Elwes has appeared on television in a number of series including The X-Files, Seinfeld, From the Earth to the Moon, Psych, and Life in Pieces.
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Cary Elwes has written a memoir of his time working on The Princess Bride called As You Wish, which was published in 2014.
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Cary Elwes was born on 26 October 1962 in Westminster, London.
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Cary Elwes is the youngest of three sons of portrait painter Dominick Elwes and Tessa Kennedy, an interior designer and socialite.
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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.
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One of Cary Elwes' relatives is John Elwes, a British miser 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.
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Cary Elwes himself played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol.
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Cary Elwes was brought up as a Catholic and was an altar boy at Westminster Cathedral.
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In 1975, when Cary Elwes was 13, his father died by suicide.
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Cary Elwes was educated at Harrow School, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
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When Cary Elwes introduced himself to the actor, Brando insisted on calling him "Rocky" after Rocky Marciano.
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Cary Elwes made his acting debut in 1984 in Marek Kanievska's film Another Country, which was loosely based on the English boarding school exploits of British spies Burgess, Philby and MacLean.
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Cary Elwes then played Guilford Dudley in the British historical drama film Lady Jane, opposite Helena Bonham Carter.
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Cary Elwes was 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.
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Cary Elwes played a rival driver to Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder.
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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.
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Cary Elwes made his first television appearance in 1996 as David Lookner on Seinfeld.
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Shortly afterward Cary Elwes received another Golden Satellite Award nomination for his work on the ensemble NBC Television film Uprising opposite Jon Voight directed by Jon Avnet.
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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.
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In 2003 Cary Elwes portrayed Kerry Max Cook in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated in New York, directed by Bob Balaban.
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Cary Elwes made an uncredited appearance as Sam Green, the man who introduced Andy Warhol to Edie Sedgwick, in the 2006 film Factory Girl.
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Also in 2009 Cary Elwes joined the cast of Robert Zemeckis's motion capture adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol portraying five roles.
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In 2009, Cary Elwes reunited with Jason Alexander for the Indian film, Delhi Safari.
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In 2014, Cary Elwes played Hugh Ashmeade, Director of the CIA, in the second season of the BYUtv series Granite Flats.
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In 2012, Cary Elwes starred in the independent drama The Citizen.
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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.
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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.
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Cary Elwes was nominated along with the cast for the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Drama Series.
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Cary Elwes met photographer Lisa Marie Kurbikoff in 1991 at a chili cook-off in Malibu, California; they were engaged in 1997.
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In March 2021, Cary Elwes posted on his social media accounts that his younger half-sister Milica had died after battling Stage 4 cancer for more than a year.
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Cary Elwes is known for his feud with Republican Texas Senator and Princess Bride fan Ted Cruz.
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Cary Elwes returned to the series in 2010 reprising his role in Saw 3D.