Ansel Elgort (born March 14, 1994)
is an American actor and singer. He began his acting career with a supporting role in the horror film ''
Carrie
Carrie may refer to:
People
* Carrie (name), a female given name and occasionally a surname
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* Carrie, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Carrie, Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Carrie Glacier, Olympic Nati ...
'' (2013) and gained wider recognition for starring as a teenage cancer patient in the romantic drama film ''
The Fault in Our Stars
''The Fault in Our Stars'' is a novel by John Green. It is his fourth solo novel, and sixth novel overall. It was published on January 10, 2012. The title is inspired by Act 1, Scene 2 of Shakespeare's play ''Julius Caesar'', in which the noble ...
'' (2014) and for his supporting role in ''
The Divergent Series
''The Divergent Series'' is a feature film series based on the '' Divergent'' novels by the American author Veronica Roth. Distributed by Summit Entertainment and Lionsgate Films, the series consists of three science fiction action films set i ...
'' (2014–2016). In 2017, he played the title character in
Edgar Wright
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a ...
's action thriller ''
Baby Driver'', for which he received a
Golden Globe Award
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nomination for
Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his lead role in ''
The Goldfinch'' (2019) and his performance in the lead role of Tony in
Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American director, writer, and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spie ...
's 2021 film version of ''
West Side Story
''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...
''.
Early life
Elgort was born in
New York City
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.
His parents are
Arthur Elgort, a fashion photographer who has worked extensively for ''
Vogue
Vogue may refer to:
Business
* ''Vogue'' (magazine), a US fashion magazine
** British ''Vogue'', a British fashion magazine
** ''Vogue Arabia'', an Arab fashion magazine
** ''Vogue Australia'', an Australian fashion magazine
** ''Vogue China'', ...
'' magazine and
Grethe Barrett Holby, an opera director.
Elgort's father named him after prominent nature photographer
Ansel Adams
Ansel Easton Adams (February 20, 1902 – April 22, 1984) was an American landscape photographer and environmentalist known for his black-and-white images of the American West. He helped found Group f/64, an association of photographers advoca ...
(1902–1984). He is of
Russian Jewish descent on his father's side; and of
Norwegian
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* Demographics of Norway
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,
English
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* English people
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and
German
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**Ge ...
ancestry on his mother's.
Elgort's Norwegian maternal grandmother, Aase-Grethe, was in the
Norwegian resistance
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*Asserting the legitimacy of the exiled government, ...
during
World War II
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and saved Norwegian Jewish children by moving them into neutral
Sweden
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; because of these activities, she was imprisoned in a
concentration camp
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.
He is a cousin of comedian Sam Morril, who is the son of his paternal uncle.
Elgort has two older siblings: sister Sophie Elgort (born 1986), a fashion photographer, and brother Warren Elgort (born 1989), a cinematographer. At age nine, his mother took him to try out for School of American Ballet
The School of American Ballet (SAB) is the most renowned ballet school in the United States. School of American Ballet is the associate school of the New York City Ballet, a ballet company based at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New ...
. Elgort went on to study there for five years.
Elgort attended Trinity School (New York City)
Trinity School (also known as Trinity) is a highly selective independent, preparatory, co-educational day school for grades K–12 located in the Upper West Side neighborhood in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, United States, ...
, The Professional Performing Arts School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and Stagedoor Manor summer camp. Elgort started taking acting classes at age 12 and at LaGuardia, where he performed in a rendition of ''Hairspray
Hairspray may refer to:
* Hair spray, a personal grooming product that keeps hair protected from humidity and wind
* ''Hairspray'' (1988 film), a film by John Waters
** ''Hairspray'' (1988 soundtrack), the film's soundtrack album
** ''Hairspray ...
'' with schoolmate Kyle Jean-Baptiste and starred in the school's productions of ''Guys and Dolls
''Guys and Dolls'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also bo ...
''. During high school, in 2009, he appeared in ''Teen Vogue
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'' alongside Polish model Jac Jagaciak
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Career Early work and controversy (2007–08) ...
in an editorial photographed by his father.
Career
Acting
Elgort's first professional acting appearance was a few months before graduating high school, just days after his 18th birthday, when he premiered a lead role in an Off-Broadway
An off-Broadway theatre is any professional theatre venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, inclusive. These theatres are smaller than Broadway theatres, but larger than off-off-Broadway theatres, which seat fewer tha ...
production of ''Regrets'' in March 2012. His film debut was in the 2013 remake of ''Carrie
Carrie may refer to:
People
* Carrie (name), a female given name and occasionally a surname
Places in the United States
* Carrie, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
* Carrie, Virginia, an unincorporated community
* Carrie Glacier, Olympic Nati ...
'', in the key secondary role of the lead character's prom date. His first highly publicized role was in '' Divergent'' (2014) as Caleb Prior, the brother of the lead character.
Immediately after the filming of ''Divergent'' was completed, it was announced that Elgort would play Augustus Waters in the film adaptation of John Green
John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, YouTube content creator, podcaster, and philanthropist. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including '' The Fault in Our Stars'' (2012), which is ...
's novel
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''The Fault in Our Stars
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'' opposite Shailene Woodley, who would play Hazel Grace Lancaster. The film followed the story of Hazel, a teenage cancer patient, who is forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she subsequently meets and falls in love with Waters, a former basketball player. The film, directed by Josh Boone, was released on June 6, 2014. Elgort next co-starred in the dramatic film '' Men, Women & Children'', directed by Jason Reitman and released in October 2014; it co-starred his LaGuardia classmate Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Hal Chalamet (; ; born December 27, 1995) is an American actor. He has received various accolades, including nominations for an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, and three BAFTA Film Awards.
Chalamet began his career as a t ...
.
In 2014, Elgort was named one of the best actors under 20 years of age. Elgort reunited with ''Carrie'' co-star Chloë Grace Moretz
Chloë Grace Moretz (; born February 10, 1997) is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including four MTV Movie & TV Awards, two People's Choice Awards, two Saturn Awards, and two Young Artist Awards.
She began actin ...
to present the award for Best Visual Effects at the 2015 Oscars
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. He also reprised his role, Caleb Prior, in '' The Divergent Series: Insurgent'', the second film of the book series ''Divergent'', which was released March 20, 2015, and in the third film, '' The Divergent Series: Allegiant'', which was released on March 18, 2016.
In 2016, Elgort was on a shortlist of actors for the role of Han Solo
Han Solo is a fictional character in the '' Star Wars'' franchise created by George Lucas. The character first appeared in the 1977 film '' Star Wars'' portrayed by Harrison Ford, who reprised his role in ''The Empire Strikes Back'' (1980) an ...
in '' Solo: A Star Wars Story''. After Alden Ehrenreich
Alden Caleb Ehrenreich (; born November 22, 1989) is an American actor. He began his career by appearing in ''Supernatural'' (2005), and Francis Ford Coppola's films '' Tetro'' (2009) and '' Twixt'' (2011). Following supporting roles in the 2013 ...
was cast in May 2016, Elgort expressed some relief, saying that if he had been cast, he would have had to change his DJ name, Ansølo.
In 2017, Elgort played the title role in the action film '' Baby Driver'', directed by Edgar Wright
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English filmmaker. He is known for his fast-paced and kinetic, satirical genre films, which feature extensive utilisation of expressive popular music, Steadicam tracking shots, dolly zooms and a ...
, and also starring Lily James
Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson (born 5 April 1989), better known by her stage name Lily James, is an English actress. She studied acting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and began her career in the British television series ''Ju ...
and Kevin Spacey
Kevin Spacey Fowler (born July 26, 1959) is an American actor. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s, obtaining supporting roles before gaining a leading man status in film and television. Spacey has received various accolades ...
. Elgort's audition in 2014 required him to lip sync
Lip sync or lip synch (pronounced , the same as the word ''sink'', short for lip synchronization) is a technical term for matching a speaking or singing person's lip movements with sung or spoken vocals.
Audio for lip syncing is generated thr ...
and dance to the song of his choosing. The film received positive reviews and performed well at the box office. Elgort received a nomination for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his performance. Also that year, he played Addison Schacht in the drama thriller film ''November Criminals
The stab-in-the-back myth (, , ) was an antisemitic conspiracy theory that was widely believed and promulgated in Germany after 1918. It maintained that the Imperial German Army did not lose World War I on the battlefield, but was instead b ...
'', an adaptation of the novel of the same name, starring again with Chloë Grace Moretz.
Elgort starred in the film ''Billionaire Boys Club
The Billionaire Boys Club was an investing and social club organized in 1983 by Joseph Henry Hunt (born Joseph Henry Gamsky) in Southern California. It was originally simply named "BBC", the initials of Bombay Bicycle Club, a restaurant Hunt had ...
'', opposite Kevin Spacey
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, Cary Elwes
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (; born 26 October 1962) is an English actor and writer. He is known for his leading film roles as Westley in ''The Princess Bride'' (1987), Robin Hood in '' Robin Hood: Men in Tights'' (1993), and Dr. Lawrence Gordon in ...
, Emma Roberts
Emma Rose Roberts (born February 10, 1991 Additional on October 9, 2016) is an American actress. Known for her work in film and television projects of the horror film, horror and thriller (genre), thriller genres, she has received List of awar ...
and Taron Egerton
Taron Egerton ( ; born 10 November 1989) is a Welsh actor. He is the recipient of a Golden Globe Award, and has received nominations for a Grammy Award and two British Academy Film Awards.
Born in Birkenhead, England, Egerton began acting at a ...
and directed by James Cox. Due to allegations of sexual misconduct against Spacey, the future of the film was uncertain and no release date was set. The film was initially released through video on demand
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on July 17, 2018, prior to a limited release
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in theaters on August 17, 2018, by Vertical Entertainment
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History
In 2012, Rich Goldberg & Mitch Budin founded Vertical Entertainment, a film distribut ...
. Elgort played the lead role in the 2019 release '' The Goldfinch'', an adaptation of Donna Tartt
Donna Louise Tartt (born December 23, 1963) is an American novelist and essayist.
Early life
Tartt was born in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta, the elder of two daughters. She was raised in the nearby town of Grenada. Her fa ...
's novel. The film was critically panned and a box office bomb
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.
Elgort played the lead role of Tony in ''West Side Story
''West Side Story'' is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.
Inspired by William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet'', the story is set in the mid-1 ...
'', an adaptation of the 1957 stage musical the same name directed by Steven Spielberg
Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American director, writer, and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spie ...
. The film was released on December 10, 2021 to critical acclaim, and received seven nominations at the 94th Academy Awards
The 94th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 27, 2022, at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. The awards were scheduled after its usual late February dat ...
, including Best Picture
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Best Actor/Best Actress
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.
Elgort next starred in ''Tokyo Vice
''Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan'' is a 2009 memoir by Jake Adelstein of his years living in Tokyo as the first non-Japanese reporter working for one of Japan's largest newspapers, ''Yomiuri Shinbun''. It was publi ...
'', a television adaptation of journalist Jake Adelstein
Joshua Lawrence “Jake” Adelstein (born March 28, 1969) is an American journalist, crime writer, and blogger who has spent most of his career in Japan. He is the author of '' Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan.'', w ...
's non-fiction memoir for HBO Max
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. Michael Mann
Michael Kenneth Mann (born February 5, 1943) is an American director, screenwriter, and producer of film and television who is best known for his distinctive style of crime drama. His most acclaimed works include the films ''Thief'' (1981), ' ...
and Destin Daniel Cretton
Destin Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his films '' Short Term 12'' (2013), '' The Glass Castle'' (2017), ''Just Mercy'' (2019) and the Marvel Studios film ''Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' (2021). He h ...
directed episodes of the series, written by J.T. Rogers. Elgort played the lead role of Adelstein and served as one of the series' executive producers. Although production on the series was halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identif ...
, production resumed and the series debuted on HBO Max
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on April 7, 2022 to positive reviews.
Forthcoming projects
Elgort has been attached to numerous film projects in development: a biopic of American pianist Van Cliburn
Harvey Lavan "Van" Cliburn Jr. (; July 12, 1934February 27, 2013) was an American pianist who, at the age of 23, achieved worldwide recognition when he won the inaugural International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958 during the Cold Wa ...
, ''Mayday 109'', portraying the role of John F. Kennedy
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, during his time in the United States Navy
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, an untitled musical film portraying Hans Christian Andersen
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Andersen's fairy tales, consisti ...
, and ''The Great High School Impostor'', based on the true story of Artur Samarin, a Ukrainian man who in 2012 overstayed his visa and then posed as an American high school student from the ages of 19–23 years old.
Music
Under the name Ansølo, Elgort created a SoundCloud
SoundCloud is an online audio distribution platform and music sharing website that enables its users to upload, promote, and share audio. Founded in 2007 by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss, SoundCloud is one of the largest music streaming se ...
account to publish electronic dance music, and he has remixed songs such as " Born to Die" by Lana Del Rey
Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21, 1985), known professionally as Lana Del Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Her music is noted for its cinematic quality and exploration of tragic romance, glamour, and melancholia, with frequent ...
. In a livestream in February 2014, he said he had signed a record deal with Tom Staar's new label, Staar Traxx, and Steve Angello
Steven Patrik Josefsson Fragogiannis ( el, Στέφεν Πάτρικ Γιόζεφσον Φραγκόγιαννης; born 22 November 1982), better known by his stage name Steve Angello, is a Greek-Swedish DJ, record producer, remixer and record ...
's label, Size Records.
His first record, ''Unite'', was released on April 21, 2014, on Beatport
Beatport is an American electronic music-oriented online music store owned by LiveStyle. The company is based in Denver, Los Angeles, and Berlin. Beatport is oriented primarily towards DJs, selling full songs as well as resources that can be used ...
, and May 5, 2014, on iTunes
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. His second record, ''Totem'', was released July 21, 2014, on Beatport and iTunes. His single "To Life", a Bar Mitzvah-themed song inflected with klezmer music, was released in September 2015.
Elgort played at the Electric Zoo Festival
Electric Zoo is an annual electronic music festival held over Labor Day weekend in New York City on Randall's Island. The festival represents all genres of electronic music, bringing top international DJs and live acts from multiple countries t ...
main stage in 2014, the Ultra Music Festival
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It was first held on Miami Beach, ...
main stage in March 2015, played in a red-light dance music event in Amsterdam
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in 2014, opened some The Chainsmokers
The Chainsmokers are an American electronic DJ and production duo consisting of Alexander "Alex" Pall and Andrew "Drew" Taggart. They started out by releasing remixes of songs by indie artists. The EDM- pop duo achieved a breakthrough with the ...
shows, a Nervo
Nervo (stylised as NERVO) are an Australian DJ duo comprising twin sisters Olivia and Miriam Nervo (born 18 February 1982). After signing with Sony/ATV Music Publishing at 18 years of age, the sisters pursued careers as songwriting partners and ...
show and some others shows with his friends Nicky Romero
Nick Rotteveel (; born January 6, 1989), professionally known as Nicky Romero or Monocule, is a Dutch DJ, record producer and remixer from Amerongen, Utrecht Province. He has worked with, and received support from DJs, such as Tiësto, Fedde le ...
and Martin Garrix
Martijn Gerard Garritsen (; born 14 May 1996), known professionally as Martin Garrix and also as Ytram and GRX, is a Dutch disc jockey and music producer who was ranked number one on ''DJ Mag''s Top 100 DJs list for three consecutive years—201 ...
. He played his first headline show on his 21st birthday on Pacha NYC.
In 2015, he signed a record deal with Island/Universal Records, releasing his first single on the label, "Home Alone", on July 8, 2016.
On February 3, 2017, he released a single called "Thief" under the name Ansel Elgort. The music video featured his girlfriend Violetta Komyshan, a ballet dancer
A ballet dancer ( it, ballerina fem.; ''ballerino'' masc.) is a person who practices the art of classical ballet. Both females and males can practice ballet; however, dancers have a strict hierarchy and strict gender roles. They rely on yea ...
.
He was featured on rapper Logic
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's third studio album, '' Everybody'', released on May 5, 2017, on a song titled "Killing Spree".
On January 11, 2018, he released a single called "Supernova".
Personal life
Elgort resides in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
On his 21st birthday, Elgort asked friends, family, and fans to donate to the Thirst Project
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. In April 2020, he posted a nude photograph of himself on social media as part of a fundraising effort to feed those affected by COVID-19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by a virus, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The first known case was COVID-19 pandemic in Hubei, identified in Wuhan, China, in December ...
.
Alleged sexual misconduct
On June 19, 2020, a woman on Twitter
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accused Elgort of sexually assaulting
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her in 2014, when she was 17 and he was 20. He denied the allegation in an Instagram
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post, saying that he and the woman had had a "brief, legal and entirely consensual relationship". The Twitter account @evenmoremohr accused Elgort of sending them unsolicited "dick pic
A dick pic is an image or photograph of a penis, usually erect, sent electronically (e.g. on the internet, by SMS, or by close-range file sharing). The term ''dick pic'' is derived from ''dick'', slang for penis, and '' pic'', a shortening of t ...
s" in 2014, when the account owner was 14. They later deleted their tweet.
Filmography
Film
Television
Discography
Singles
Remixes
As featured artist
Music videos
Awards and nominations
References
External links
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1994 births
Living people
21st-century American male actors
American male film actors
American electronic musicians
Island Records artists
American people of English descent
American people of German descent
American people of Norwegian descent
American people of Russian-Jewish descent
Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School alumni
Male actors from New York City
American DJs
American electronic dance music DJs
American contemporary R&B singers
American hip hop musicians
American soul musicians
Shorty Award winners