Cary Elwes

• Birthplace: London, England, United Kingdom
• Birthday: October 26, 1962

Tall and dashing, this fair-haired, blue-eyed English lead generally has been at his most appealing in heroic roles but in the mid-1990s branched out to playing the occasional villain with equal success. The youngest son of painter Dominic Elwes and interior designer Tessa Kennedy, Cary Elwes grew up a child of privilege and he utilized this background in his early film roles, notably as the intimate of a future spy in "Another Country" (1984), an examination of elite students at a British public boarding school in the 1930s. He first…more