Cary Elwes

Cary Elwes is one of those actors who could have coasted forever on a single role — and honestly, nobody would have blamed him, because Westley in The Princess Bride is one of the most effortlessly charming leading-man performances in cinema history. That smirk, that swashbuckling ease, the "As you wish" — it's lightning-in-a-bottle stuff. But what I actually appreciate is how he leaned into self-parody with Mel Brooks in Robin Hood: Men in Tights without losing any of his cool, and then completely flipped the script by jumping into the Saw franchise as a desperate, morally grey doctor. That range — fairy-tale hero to torture-chamber victim — tells you this guy was always more than a pretty face in tights.

Name (English)

Cary Elwes

Name (Japanese)

ケイリー・エルウィス

Reading

けいりー・えるうぃす

Born

October 26, 1962 (age 63)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Tiger

Origin

Westminster, United Kingdom

Occupation

actor / voice actor / film producer / screenwriter / stage actor

University

Sarah Lawrence College

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%82%A4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9

Tags

• actor
• voice actor
• film producer

Last updated

2026-06-02

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