Cary Elwes

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Cary Elwes at Comic-Con 2013

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born October 26, 1962 in London ) is a British actor , film producer and screenwriter .

biography

Cary Elwes at the 2015 Toronto Film Festival

Cary Elwes is the third son of interior designer Tessa Kennedy, who is of Anglo-Irish and Serbo-Croatian descent, and portrait artist Dominic Elwes. His brother Cassian Elwes is a film producer , his second brother Damian Elwes is an artist. His mother married Elliott Kastner after the death of her first husband . After school, Cary Elwes moved to the United States , where he studied acting and art at Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers near New York .

After college, Cary Elwes had his first role in 1984 in Another Country by Marek Kanievska . He then received the offer in Lady Jane - Queen for Nine Days , a historical epic, to play the role of Guildford Dudley alongside Helena Bonham Carter . 1987 followed an appearance as farm boy Westley in The Bride of the Prince . This was followed by roles alongside Matthew Broderick in Glory and as a competitor to Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder . In hot shots! - The mother of all films , a parody of Top Gun - you fear neither death nor the devil , he embodies the antagonist of Charlie Sheen alias Topper Harley. In Bram Stoker's Dracula , he was Lucy's fiancé, played by Sadie Frost .

In Mel Brooks ' parody Robin Hood - Heroes in Tights , Elwes took on the title role of Robin Hood . Other roles followed, including in Twister and alongside Jim Carrey in The Dummies . In 1999 Elwes played the role of John Houseman in The Staggering Ship, directed by Tim Robbins . The following year he appeared in Shadow of the Vampire in the role of Fritz Arno Wagner . In Uprising - The Uprising over the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Elwes took on the role of Fritz Hippler .

In the ninth season of the mystery series X-Files - The Scary Cases of the FBI , Elwes took on the role of Brad Follmer , a skeptical FBI agent, in six episodes from 2001 . In 2004 he starred in the horror film Saw Dr. Lawrence Gordon who falls into the hands of a mad serial killer . Six years later he played again Dr. Lawrence Gordon in Saw 3D Completion . In the film Pope John Paul II , Elwes was seen as a young Karol Wojtyła . Elwes made his debut as a screenwriter with the film Elvis & Nixon in 2016.

In 1997 Elwes got engaged to the photographer Lisa Marie Kurbikoff in Paris . The wedding took place in 2000. They have a daughter together (born April 24, 2007).

Filmography (selection)

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Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celebrities DeGeneres 'Bedding' Talk Show Guests . In: Watertown Daily Times . May 3, 2007, p. D2. "Elwes and Lisa Marie (nee Kurbikoff) met in 1991 at a Malibu chili cook-off. They were engaged in 1997 and tied the knot three years later. "
  2. ↑ http://www.movieactors.com/actors/caryelwes.htm
  3. ↑ Stephen M. Silverman, Julie Jordan: Cary Elwes, Wife Welcome a Girl . In: People . April 27, 2007. Archived from the original on September 26, 2011. Retrieved on September 26, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Elwes, Cary
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Elwes, Ivan Simon Cary (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British actor, film producer and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH London