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[10/15, 22:27] SKILL INDIA: Cary ElwesIvan Simon Cary Elwes born 26 October 1962)is an English actor. He is known for his leadingfilm roles as Westley in The Princess Bride (1987), Robin Hood in Robin Hood: Men in Tights(1993), and Dr. Lawrence Gordon in the Saw film series.Elwes’ other performances in filmsinclude Glory (1989), Hot Shots! (1991), The Jungle Book (1994), Days of Thunder (1990),Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), Twister (1996), Kiss the Girls (1997), Liar Liar (1997), Cradle WillRock (1999), Shadow of the Vampire (2000), The Cat’s Meow (2001), Ella Enchanted (2004),The Alphabet Killer (2008), A Christmas Carol (2009), No Strings Attached (2011),andBlackBerry (2023).He 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 theNetflix drama series Stranger Things and the Amazon Prime comedy series The Marvelous Mrs.Maisel.He wrote his memoir As You Wish in 2014.His paternal relatives include such clerics asDudley Charles Cary-Elwes (1868–1932), the Bishop of Northampton and Abbot ColumbaCary-Elwes (Ampleforth Abbey, Saint Louis Abbey). He discussed this in an interview while hewas filming the 2005 CBS television film Pope John Paul II, in which he played the young priestKarol Wojtyła.Elwes made his acting debut in 1984 with Marek Kanievska’s film AnotherCountry, which was loosely based on the English boarding school exploits of British spiesBurgess, Philby and MacLean. He played James Harcourt, a gay student.He went on to playGuilford Dudley in the British historical drama film Lady Jane, opposite Helena Bonham Carter.He was then cast as stable-boy-turned-swashbuckler Westley in Rob Reiner’s fantasy-comedyThe Princess Bride (1987), which was based on the novel of the same name by WilliamGoldman. It was a modest box office success,but received critical acclaim. As a result of yearsof reviews, it earned a score of 97% on the review aggregation website RottenTomatoes.2001[22]Elwes continued to work steadily, varying between dramatic roles, such as in the Oscar-winningGlory (1989), and comedic roles, as in Hot Shots! (1991). He played a rival driver to Tom Cruisein Days of Thunder (1990). In 1993, he starred as Robin Hood in Mel Brooks’s comedy RobinHood: Men in Tights. Elwes then appeared in supporting roles in such films as Francis FordCoppola’s adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992), The Crush (1993), The Jungle Book(1994), Twister (1996), Liar Liar (1997), and Kiss the Girls. In 1999, he portrayed famed theatreand film producer John Houseman for Tim Robbins in his ensemble film based on OrsonWelles’s musical, Cradle Will Rock. Following that, he travelled to Luxembourg to work withJohn Malkovich and Willem Dafoe in Shadow of the Vampire.Elwes made his first television appearance in 1996 as David Lookner on Seinfeld. Two yearslater he played astronaut Michael Collins in the Golden Globe Award-winning HBO miniseriesFrom the Earth To the Moon. The following year Elwes was nominated for a Golden SatelliteAward for Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Televisionfor his portrayal of Colonel James Burton in The Pentagon Wars directed by Richard Benjamin.In 1999, he guest starred as Dr. John York in an episode of the television series The OuterLimits.In 2001, he co-starred in Peter Bogdanovich’s ensemble film The Cat’s Meow portrayingmovie mogul Thomas Ince, who died mysteriously while vacationing with William Randolph Hearst on his yacht. Shortly afterward he received another Golden Satellite Award nominationfor his work on the ensemble NBC Television film Uprising opposite Jon Voight directed by JonAvnet. Elwes had a recurring role in the final season (from 2001 to 2002) of Chris Carter’s hitseries The X-Files as FBI Assistant Director Brad Follmer. In 2003 Elwes portrayed Kerry MaxCook in the off-Broadway play The Exonerated in New York, directed by Bob Balaban (18–23March 2003).The same year he appeared in Ella Enchanted, this time as the villain, not thehero. Also in 2004, he portrayed serial killer Ted Bundy in the A&E Network film The Riverman,which became one of the highest rated original films in the network’s history and garnered aprestigious BANFF Rockie Award nomination. The following year, Elwes played the young KarolWojtyła in the CBS television film Pope John Paul II. The TV film was highly successful not onlyin North America but also in Europe, where it broke box office records in the late Pope’s nativePoland and became the first film ever to break $1 million in three days.The following year Elwesportrayed the part of Gremlin Gus in Disney’s video game, Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two. In2014, he appeared in Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey as the voice of scientists Edmond Halleyand Robert Hooke.In October 2014 Touchstone (Simon & Schuster) published Elwes’s memoirof the making of The Princess Bride, entitled As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Makingof The Princess Bride, which he co-wrote with Joe Layden. The book featured never-before-toldstories, exclusive behind-the-scenes photographs, and interviews with co-stars Robin Wright,Wallace Shawn, Billy Crystal, Christopher Guest, Fred Savage and Mandy Patinkin, as well asscreenwriter William Goldman, producer Norman Lear, and director Rob Reiner. The bookdebuted on The New York Times Best Seller list.According to the Hollywood Reporter, Elwesinitiated the 2020 fundraiser that re-united many Princess Bride cast members to support JoeBiden in the battleground state of Wisconsin.Cary Elwes was born in Westminster, London,England, the third son of interior designer/shipping heiress Tessa Georgina Kennedy and thelate portrait painter Bede Evelyn Dominick Elwes. He is the brother of producer/agent CassianElwes and artist Damian Elwes. He was raised in London and attended Harrow. After graduatingfrom Harrow, he moved to the US and studied drama at Sarah Lawrence College. He left schoolafter two years to begin his film career. Cary is well respected by colleagues and fans alike andconsidered by many to be one of the finest actors working today. He is interested in history andsays, “It’s deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces”. He is politically active forcauses he believes in, such as protecting the environment and helping Native American people.Elwes is married to Lisa Marie Kurbikoff, a stills photographer. He comes from along-established recusant English family on his father’s side. Several prominent Catholic clericsare among his relatives, including Fr. Luke Cary-Elwes, Dom Columba Cary-Elwes, and DomCuthbert Cary-Elwes. His grandfather was society painter and war artist Simon Elwes. Cary (thesurname “Cary-Elwes” was shortened to “Elwes” in some branches of the family) was an altarboy at London’s Brompton Oratory, although he did not attend a Catholic high school. From hismaternal grandmother, Daska Marija Ivanovic-Banac, who was born in Osijek in theAustra-Hungarian Empire (now in Croatia), he has Croatian Jewish and Serbian ancestry.Cary’s other lineage is English, Irish, and Scottish.Is the ambassador for the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund with UNICEF. As ambassador, hetraveled to Banda Aceh, Indonesia for the documentary “The Children of the Tsunami”, which was filmed 90 days after the tsunami of December 2003 to document the damage and recoveryefforts.Was chosen for the part of Westley in The Princess Bride (1987) after Rob Reiner saw him inLady Jane (1986). He spent weeks training in fencing with both his left hand and right handwhile performing acrobatics.Having been a dramatic actor, he had never done a comedy prior to his acclaimed performancein The Princess Bride (1987).He said after The Princess Bride (1987), he was getting lots of offers to act in several costumeperiod pieces. He turned most of them down because he didn’t want to be typecast, as he hadalready starred in period pieces, mostly as a romantic love interest, in the previous films AnotherCountry (1984), Lady Jane (1986), and Maschenka (1987). In contrast, he later starred inseveral films as a villain, which include Leather Jackets (1991), Twister (1996), The Jungle Book(1994),Ella Enchanted (2004), The Riverman (2004) to name a few.