Cary Elwes Biography, Age, Family, Siblings, Wife, Kids, and Net Worth

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1. What does Cary Elwes do for a living?
2. Who are Cary Elwes’s parents and siblings?
3. What are Cary Elwes’s interests and hobbies?
4. Is Cary Elwes married or does he have a girlfriend/ boyfriend?
5. Does Cary Elwes have any children?
6. Where is Cary Elwes now?
7. How tall is Cary Elwes?
8. How much money does Cary Elwes earn?
9. What is Cary Elwes’s net worth?

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 Who is Cary Elwes?

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes is a professional English actor and writer. He is recognized for his leading movie role as Westley in The Princess Bride (1987), Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993), and Dr. Lawrence Gordon in the Saw movie series.

Elwes is also recognized for his performance in movies such as Glory (1989), Hot Shots! (1991), The Jungle Book (1994), Days of Thunder (1990), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Twister (1996), Kiss the Girls (1997). As well as Liar Liar (1997), Cradle Will Rock (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Cat’s Meow (2001), Ella Enchanted (2004), The Alphabet Killer (2008), A Christmas Carol (2009) and No Strings Attached (2011). Elwes has appeared on TV in various series consisting of The X-Files, Seinfeld, From the Earth to the Moon, Psych, Life in Pieces, Stranger Things, and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.

Cary Elwes career

Film

Cary made his acting debut with Marek Kanievska’s movie Another Country in 1984. The film was loosely based on the English boarding school exploits of British spies Philby, Burgess, and MacLean. He portrayed James Harcourt, a gay student. Elwes then played Guilford Dudley in the British historical drama movie Lady Jane, alongside Helena Bonham Carter. He was later cast as a stable-boy-turned-swashbuckler Westley in Rob Reiner’s fantasy-comedy The Princess Bride (1987), based on the novel of the same title by William Goldman. The film was a modest box office success, but got critical acclaim, receiving a score of 97% on the review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes. The movie has become a cult classic, since being launched on home video and television.

Cary went on to work steadily, playing dramatic roles including in the Oscar-winning Glory (1989) and comedic roles such as in Hot Shots! (1991). He also played a rival driver to Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder (1990). Elwes starred as Robin Hood in Mel Brooks’s comedy, Robin Hood: Men in Tights in 1993. He then appeared in supporting roles in such movies as Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), The Crush (1993), The Jungle Book (1994), Twister (1996), Liar Liar (1997), and Kiss the Girls.

Elwes played famed theatre and film producer John Houseman for Tim Robbins in his ensemble film based on Orson Welles’s musical, Cradle Will Rock in 1999. After that, he traveled to Luxembourg to work with John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire. He co-starred in Peter Bogdanovich’s ensemble movie The Cat’s Meow in 2001. Elwes portrayed movie mogul Thomas Ince, who died mysteriously while vacationing with William Randolph Hearst on his yacht.

2004-present

Cary starred in the horror-thriller Saw in 2004, with a budget of a little over $1 million, grossing more than $100 million worldwide. He then appeared in Ella Enchanted, in the same year as the villain, not the hero. Elwes then made an uncredited appearance as Sam Green, the man who introduced Andy Warhol to Edie Sedgwick, in the 2006 movie Factory Girl. He later appeared in Garry Marshall’s Georgia Rule alongside Jane Fonda in 2007. Elwes went back to the Saw franchise in Saw 3D (2010), the seventh film in the series, as Dr. Lawrence Gordon in 2010. He was picked by Ivan Reitman to star together with Natalie Portman in No Strings Attached in 2011. Later that year, he and Garry Marshall teamed up again in the ensemble romantic comedy New Year’s Eve alongside Halle Berry and Robert de Niro.

Elwes starred in the independent drama The Citizen in 2012. The next year he joined Selena Gomez for the comedy ensemble, Behaving Badly directed by Tim Garrick. Elwes then completed Sugar Mountain directed by Richard Gray in 2015: the drama We Don’t Belong Here alongside Catherine Keener and Anton Yelchin directed by Peer Pedersen. As well as Being Charlie which reunited him with director Rob Reiner after 28 years and premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. He then starred alongside Penelope Cruz in Fernando Trueba’s Spanish-language period pic The Queen of Spain in 2016. The film was a sequel to Trueba’s 1998 drama Girl of Your Dreams. It also re-united Elwes with his Princess Bride co-star, Mandy Patinkin.

How old is Cary Elwes?

Ivan Simon Cary Elwes is aged 59 as of 2021, having been born on October 26, 1962, in Westminster, London, England. He shares his birthday with famous people including Hillary Clinton, Drew Gooden, Seth MacFarlane, Keith Urban, CM Punk, Bootsy Collins, Dylan McDermott, Hillary Rodham, among others. Elwes was recently bitten by a rattlesnake in 2022.

Cary Elwes Family

Who are Cary Elwes’s parents?

Cary Elwes was born in Westminster, London to Dominic Elwes and Tessa Kennedy. His father was a portrait painter and his mother was an interior designer and socialite. His parents divorced when he was four years old and his stepfather, Elliot Kastner, was an American film producer and the first American to start independent film production in the U.K. Elwes was raised as a Roman Catholic and was an altar boy although he did not attend denominational schools as most of the men on his father’s side including his father. His father died of suicide when Elwes was aged 13. Elwes belongs of English, Scottish, Irish, Croatian-Jewish, and Serbian descent.

Cary’s paternal grandfather was the portrait painter Simon Elwes, whose own father was the diplomat and tenor Gervase Elwes (1866-1921). His other grandfathers consist of the diplomat Rennell Rodd, 1st Baron Rennel, and industrialist Ivan Rikard Ivanovic. His maternal grandmother Daska McLean, has a second husband Billy McLean who was an operative for Special Operations Executive during World War II.

Does Cary Elwes have siblings?

Elwes was born to his parents in a family of four children. He has two older brothers, artist Damian Elwes and film producer Cassian Elwes and two half-siblings, sister, Milica Kastner, and brother Dillion Kastner. Milica, who was a producer, died in 2021, after battling Stage 4 cancer for over a year.

Cary Elwes Education

Elwes attended Harrow School and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He then moved to the U.S. to study at Sarh Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. Here he studied acting at the Actors Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, under the tutelage of Al Pacino’s mentor, Charlie Laughton.

Cary Elwes Interests

Elwes is recognized for his feud with Republican Texas Senator and Princess Bride fan Ted Cruz. He initiated the 2020 fundraiser that re-united numerous Princess Bride cast members to support Joe Biden in the battleground state of Wisconsin. The reunion raised over $4 million for Wisconsin Democrats.

Cary Elwes Wife

Elwes met with Lisa Marie Kurbikoff, a photographer in 1991, at a chili cook-off in Malibu, California. In 1997 they got engaged and married in 2000. The couple currently has one child together and lives in Malibu.

Cary Elwes Kids

Elwes and his beautiful and supportive wife Lisa have one child in their marriage together. Their child is a daughter, Dominique Elwes, born on April 24, 2007.

Cary Elwes Height

Elwes has a well-built, muscular and energetic body, adding up to an average height of 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) and weighs 74 kg (163 lbs).

Television

Cary made his first TV appearance as David Lookner on Seinfeld in 1996. After two years he portrayed astronaut Michael Collins in the Golden Globe Award-winning HBO miniseries From the Earth To the Moon. He was then nominated for a Golden Satellite Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV for his portrayal of Colonel James Burton in The Pentagon Wars directed by Richard Benjamin the next year. In 1998, Elwes guest-starred as Dr. John York in an episode of the television series The Outer Limits. Briefly afterward he got another Golden Satellite Award nomination for his work on the ensemble NBC Television movie Uprising alongside Jon Voight directed by Jon Avnet. He had a recurring role in the final season (from 2001 to 2002) of Chris Carter’s hit series The X-Files as FBI Assistant Director Brad Follmer.

Elwes played serial killer Ted Bundy in the A&E Network movie The Riverman in 2004. The film became one of the highest-rated original films in the network’s history and garnered a prestigious BANFF Rockie Award nomination. The next year, he portrayed the young Karol Wojtyla in the CBS television film ope John Paul II. The television film was highly successful not only in North America but also in Europe, breaking box office records in the late Pope’s native Poland and becoming the first movie ever to break $1 million in three days. He then made a guest appearance on the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode ”Dependent” as a Mafia lawyer in 2007.

2009-present

In 2009, Elwes played the role of Pierre Despereaux, an international art thief, in the fourth-season premiere of Psych. He came back to Pysch, reprising his role in the second half of the fifth season again in the show’s sixth season in 2010, and again in its eight-season premiere.

Elwes portrayed Hugh Ashmeade, Director of the CIA, in the second season of the BYUtv series Granite Flats in 2014. He was then cast as Arthur Davenport, a shrewd and eccentric world-class collector of illegal art and antiquities in Crackie’s first streaming network series, The Art of More in May 2015. The series explored the cutthroat world of premium auction houses, debuting on November 19, and was picked up for a second season. He later played Larry Kline, Mayor of Hawkins in April 2018, for the third season of the Netflix series Stranger Things, premiering in July 2019. It was then announced in May 2019, that he would be joining the third season of the Amazon series The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as Gavin Hawk.

Voice-over work

Car’s voice-over work consists of the narrator in James Patterson’s audiobook The Jester. As well as characters in film and TV animations including Quest for Camelot, Pinky and The Brain, and Batman Beyond. In addition to the English versions of the Studio Ghibli movies Porco Rosso, Whisper of the Heart and The Cat Returns. He worked as a screenwriter, improviser, and voice actor for the main character The Bard in the 2004 video game The Bard’s Tale.

Elwes reunited with Jason Alexander for the Indian movie, Delhi Safari in 2009. He then portrayed the part of Gremlin Gus in Disney’s video game, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two in 2010. Elwes appeared in Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey as the voice of scientists Edmond Halley and Robert Hooke in 2014.

Motion capture work

Elwes joined the cast of Robert Zemecki’s motion-capture adaptation of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol playing five roles in 2009. He was then picked by Steven Spielberg to appear in his motion-capture adaptation of Belgian artist Herge’s popular comic strip The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn the same year.

Theatre

In 2003, Cary played Kerry Max Cook in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated in New York, directed by Bob Balaban (18-23 March 2003).

Literature

In October 2014 Touchstone published Elwes’s memoir of the making of The Princess Bride. It was titled As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, which he co-wrote with Joe Layden. The book featured never-before-told-stories, exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs, and interviews with co-stars Wallace Shawn, Robin Wright, Christopher Guest, Mandy Patinkin, Fred Savage, and Billy Crystal. As well as the author and screenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear and director Rob Reiner. The book then debuted on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Other projects

Cary co-wrote the screenplay for a movie titled Elvis & Nixon in 2014, about the pair’s famous meeting at the White House in 1970. The movie, which starred Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey, was bought by Amazon as their first theatrical feature and was launched on April 22, 2016.

Lawsuit

Elwes filed a lawsuit over Evolution Entertainment, his management firm and producer of Saw in August 2005. He said that he was promised a minimum of 1% of the producers’ net profits of the film and did not receive the full amount. The case was then settled out of court. He would not come back to the series until 2010 when he reprised his role in Saw 3D.

Cary Elwes Net Worth

English professional actor and writer, Elwes has been active from 1979 to the present. He has appeared in numerous films and television appearances throughout his life. Elwes has garnered an estimated net worth of approximately $8 million as of 2022.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1979	Yesterday’s Hero	Disco Dancer
1984	Another Country	James Harcourt
	Oxford Blues	Lionel
1985	The Bride	Capt. Josef Schoden
1986	Lady Jane	Guilford Dudley
1987	Maschenka	Lev Glebovich Ganin
	The Princess Bride	Westley / Dread Pirate Roberts / The Man in Black
1989	Never on Tuesday	Tow Truck Driver	Uncredited
	Glory	Maj. Cabot Forbes
1990	Days of Thunder	Russ Wheeler
1991	Hot Shots!	Lt. Kent Gregory
1992	Bram Stoker’s Dracula	Lord Arthur Holmwood
	Leather Jackets	Dobbs	Also associate producer
1993	Robin Hood: Men in Tights	Robin Hood
	The Crush	Nick Eliot
1994	The Jungle Book	Capt. William Boone
	The Chase	Steve Horsegroovy
1996	Twister	Dr. Jonas Miller
1997	Kiss the Girls	Det. Nick Ruskin	Nominated – Blockbuster Entertainment Awards Best Supporting ActoDet
	The Informant	Lt. David Ferris
	Liar Liar	Jerry
1998	Quest for Camelot	Garrett	Voice
1998	The Pentagon Wars	Col. James G. Burton
1999	Cradle Will Rock	John Houseman
2000	Shadow of the Vampire	Fritz Arno “Fritzy” Wagner
2001	The Cat’s Meow	Thomas H. Ince
2002	Wish You Were Dead	Mac “Macbeth” Wilson
	Comic Book Villains	Carter	Also co-producer
2003	Porco Rosso	Donald Curtis	Voice; English dub
2004	Saw	Dr. Lawrence Gordon	Nominated – MTV Movie Award for Best Frightened Performance
	Ella Enchanted	Sir Edgar
	The Riverman	Ted Bundy
	American Crime	Albert Bodine
2005	Edison Force	District Attorney Jack Reigert
	Neo Ned	Dr. Magnuson
	National Lampoon’s Pucked	Norman
	The Cat Returns	Baron Humbert von Gikkingen	Voice; English dub
	Saw II	Dr. Lawrence Gordon	Uncredited; voice-only
2006	Factory Girl	Sam Green	Uncredited
	Whisper of the Heart	Baron Humbert von Gikkingen	Voice; English dub
	Saw III	Dr. Lawrence Gordon	Uncredited; cameo
2007	Saw IV		Uncredited; mentioned only
	Walk the Talk	Erik	Also executive producer
	Georgia Rule	Arnold
2008	Saw V	Dr. Lawrence Gordon	Uncredited; mentioned only
	The Alphabet Killer	Capt. Kenneth Shine
2009	Saw VI	Dr. Lawrence Gordon	Uncredited; mentioned only
	A Christmas Carol	Various characters	Voice and motion-capture
2010	Psych 9	Dr. Clement
	Flying Lessons	Steven Jennings
	As Good as Dead	Ethan Belfrage
	Little Murder	Barry Fitzgerald
	Saw 3D	Dr. Lawrence Gordon
2011	No Strings Attached	Dr. Steven Metzner
	Delhi Safari	Bee Commander / Sultan	Voice
	The Adventures of Tintin	Seaplane Pilot	Voice and motion-capture
	New Year’s Eve	Stan’s Doctor	Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Ensemble (shared with the entire cast)
	The Story of Luke	Uncle Paul
	Camilla Dickinson	Rafferty Dickinson
	Hellgate	Jeff Mathews
2012	The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure	Bobby Wobbly	Nominated — Golden Raspberry Award for Worst Screen Ensemble (shared with the entire cast)
	The Citizen	Earl Miller
2013	Hansel & Gretel Get Baked	Meter Man
	Behaving Badly	Joseph Stevens
	Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox	Orin / Arthur Curry / Aquaman / Emperor Aquaman	Voice
	Armed Response	Joshua
2014	A Bit of Bad Luck	Brooks
	Reach Me	Kersey
2015	A Mouse Tale	Sir Thaddeus	Voice
	H8RZ	Principal Donato
	Being Charlie	David Mills
	A Haunting in Cawdor	Lawrence O’Neil
2016	Lost & Found	John Broman
	Sugar Mountain	Jim Huxley
	Elvis & Nixon	N/A	Writer and producer
	Indiscretion	Jake
	The Elephant Kingdom	Rock	Voice
	The Queen of Spain	Gary Jones
2017	We Don’t Belong Here	Frank Harper
	Don’t Sleep	Dr. Richard Sommers
2018	Billionaire Boys Club	Andy Warhol
	Ghost Light	Alex Pankhurst
2019	Black Christmas	Professor Gelson
2021	Best Sellers	Halpren Nolan
	The Unholy	Bishop Gyles
	Last Train to Christmas	Roger Towers
	A Castle for Christmas	Duke Myles
2022	The Hyperions	Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum
	Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre	Nathan Jasmine	Post-production
2023	Mission: Impossible 7		Post-production
TBA	Rebel Moon		Filming

Television