Ansel Elgort is an American actor. He gained recognition with his starring role in the film The Fault in Our Stars.
So let’s dive into some trivia and facts about his life and career thus far.
- Ansel Elgort was born on March 14, 1994
- He is s an American actor, singer, and DJ
- His DJ name is Ansølo
- Born to photographer Arthur Elgort
- And stage producer Grethe Barrett Holby
- He began his acting career with a supporting role in the horror film Carrie (2013)
- Elgort gained wider recognition for starring as a charming teenage cancer patient in the romantic drama The Fault in Our Stars (2014) and for his role in The Divergent Series franchise
- In 2017, he played the title character in Edgar Wright’s action thriller Baby Driver
- For the film he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
- As a singer, he has released the singles “Thief” (2017) and “Supernova” (2018)
- Elgort was born in Manhattan
- His parents are Arthur Elgort, a fashion photographer who has worked extensively for Vogue for over thirty years
- And Grethe Barrett Holby, an opera director
- Elgort’s father is of Russian Jewish descent
- His mother is of Norwegian, English, and German ancestry
- His Norwegian maternal grandmother, Aase-Grethe was in the Norwegian resistance during World War II
- She saved Norwegian Jewish children by moving them into neutral Sweden
- Because of these activities, she was imprisoned in a concentration camp
- Elgort is named after photographer Ansel Adams
- He is the third of three children
- He has two older siblings: sister Sophie Elgort (born 1986), a fashion photographer and brother Warren Elgort (born 1989), a cinematographer
- At the age of nine, his mother took him to try out for School of American Ballet
- Elgort went on to study there for 5 years
- He attended The Professional Performing Arts School, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School and Stagedoor Manor summer camp
- Elgort started taking acting classes at the age of twelve at LaGuardia
- There he performed in a rendition of Hairspray with schoolmate Kyle Jean-Baptiste
- He starred in the school’s productions of Guys and Dolls
- In 2012, Elgort began dating his high school sweetheart, Violetta Komyshan, a ballerina
- The couple broke up in August 2014 primarily due to the actor’s burgeoning career and hectic schedule
- They reconciled in 2015
- He is a skateboarder and an avid sportsman
- He is often seen playing pickup basketball
- As a hobby, he also took to miniature painting, displaying some of his work
- He is an avid fan of the New York Mets, New York Jets, New York Knicks and New York Rangers
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