English People of Croatian Descent - Cary Elwes (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born 26 October 1962), known professionally as Cary Elwes, is an English actor, known for his performances in Lady Jane, The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Hot Shots , Glory, Liar Liar, Saw and Twister. Elwes was born in Westminster, London, and is the third and youngest son of portrait-painter Dominick Elwes and interior designer Tessa Georgina Kennedy, who is of Croatian and Anglo-Irish descent. He attended Harrow School in London and Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, where he studied, among other acting-related subjects, German Expressionist Film. While living in New York Elwes studied acting at both the Actors' Studio and the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. In 1991, Elwes met photographer Lisa Marie Kurbikoff. They became engaged in 1997 and wed in 2000. The couple has one daughter. One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1843). Elwes played the role of Dick Wilkins in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel. Elwes made his acting debut in Marek Kanievska's film Another Country (where he played James Harcourt, a young and sentimental homosexual student from an Eton-esque English boarding school), with Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. The film, adapted from a play, was loosely based on the formative years of British spy Guy Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five. His first notable role was Guilford Dudley in the highly acclaimed British epic Lady Jane, costarring Helena Bonham Carter. He was personally chosen by Trevor Nunn, director of the Royal Shakespeare Company. His performance in that film led director Rob Reiner to cast Elwes in another leading role, this time as the stable boy turned swashb... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7179