Cary Elwes Biography

Cary Elwes (born Ivan Simon Cary Elwes in the U.K. on October 26, 1962) is a British actor, best known for his performances in The Princess Bride, Saw, and Robin Hood: Men in Tights.

Elwes (pronounced "El-wis") attended Harrow School in England, and Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers, New York, where he studied acting.
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Elwes descends from a staunchly Roman Catholic recusant family (originally known as the "Cary-Elwes" family, but now many branches of the family are now simply known as "Elwes") which includes noted British monks and bishops, such as Dom Columba Elwes, Archbishop Dudley Cary-Elwes and Father Luke Cary-Elwes. His artist father, Dominic Evelyn Bede Elwes, had moved in the circles of high society (and been friends with Lord Lucan and Lady Annabel Goldsmith to whom he was also related) before he took his own life. Cary's mother, Tessa Kennedy, who eloped with Elwes in 1957 to great scandal, is of Anglo-Irish and Serbo-Croatian extraction. She is married to Hollywood executive Elliott Kastner.

Elwes became engaged to the photographer Lisa Marie Kurbikoff in 1997. The couple has been married since 2001. Elwes has 2 brothers, Cassian and Damien, who are also involved in the entertainment industry.

Elwes filed a lawsuit in August, 2005 against his management firm and the producers of Saw, a film he starred in. He alleged that he was promised "a minimum of one percent of the producers' ne profits" and did not recieve the full amount as promised.

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