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Key facts
- Born
- Ivan Simon Cary Elwes , ( 1962-10-26 ) 26 October 1962 (age 63) , Westminster , London, England
- Alma mater
- Sarah Lawrence College London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
- Occupation
- Actor
- Years active
- 1979–present
- Spouse
- Lisa Marie Kurbikoff ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2000 )
- Parent s
- Dominick Elwes , Tessa Kennedy
- Relatives
- Cassian Elwes (brother), Damian Elwes (brother)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Westminster
- Occupation
- television actor
- Educated at
- Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- British English
- Image
- Cary Elwes September 2015.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- Cary Elwes
- date of birth
- 1962-01-01
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- 1979-00-00
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- 241444
- name in native language
- Cary Elwes
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Encyclopedic overview
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (/ˈɛlwɪs/ EL-wiss; born 26 October 1962) is an English actor. He starred as Westley in The Princess Bride (1987), and also had lead roles in films such as Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) and the Saw series. The accolades he has received include nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Satellite Awards. Elwes's other performances in films include Glory (1989); Days of Thunder (1990); Hot Shots! (1991); Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992); Twister (1996); Kiss the Girls (1997); Liar Liar (1997); Ella Enchanted (2004); No Strings Attached (2011); Hansel & Gretel Get Baked (2013); BlackBerry and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (both 2023); and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025).
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. In 2019, he appeared in the Netflix drama series Stranger Things, the Amazon Prime comedy series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and in 2024, he appeared in the Paramount+ comedy series Knuckles. Elwes has written a memoir of his time working on The Princess Bride called As You Wish, which was published in 2014.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cary Elwes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.