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Cary Elwes
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English actor and author, best known for playing Westley in The Princess Bride; author of the 2014 memoir As You Wish.
Biography
Ivan Simon Cary Elwes (born 26 October 1962) is an English actor. He starred as Westley in The Princess Bride (1987) and had lead roles in films such as Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993) and the Saw series. He has received nominations for a Screen Actors Guild Award and two Satellite Awards.
Elwes's other film credits include Glory (1989), Days of Thunder (1990), Hot Shots! (1991), Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Twister (1996), Kiss the Girls (1997), Liar Liar (1997), Ella Enchanted (2004), No Strings Attached (2011), Hansel & Gretel Get Baked (2013), BlackBerry and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One (both 2023), and Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025). He has appeared on television in series including The X-Files, Seinfeld, From the Earth to the Moon, Psych, and Life in Pieces, and appeared in Stranger Things and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel in 2019 and Knuckles in 2024.
Elwes wrote a memoir of his time working on The Princess Bride titled As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The Princess Bride, which was published in 2014.
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Books by Cary Elwes
As you wish
As You Wish is a first-person, behind-the-scenes memoir of the making of The Princess Bride, containing never-before-told stories, exclusive photographs, and interviews with cast and crew, with a foreword by Rob Reiner.