![]() In 2016, Elgort was on a shortlist of actors for the role of Han Solo in Solo: A Star Wars Story. 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. Elgort reunited with Carrie co-star Chloë Grace Moretz to present the award for Best Visual Effects at the 2015 Oscars. In 2014, Elgort was named one of the best actors under 20 years of age. Įlgort at the premiere of Divergent, 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. The film, directed by Josh Boone, was released on June 6, 2014. 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, an ex-basketball player. Immediately after the filming of Divergent was completed, it was announced that Elgort would play Augustus Waters in the film adaptation of John Green's novel The Fault in Our Stars opposite Shailene Woodley, who would play Hazel Grace Lancaster. His first highly publicized role was in Divergent (2014) as Caleb Prior, the brother of the lead character. His film debut was in the 2013 remake of Carrie, in the key secondary role of the lead character's prom date. Career ActingĮlgort'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 production of Regrets in March 2012. During high school, in 2009, he appeared in Teen Vogue alongside Polish model Jac Jagaciak in an editorial photographed by his father. Elgort started taking acting classes at age 12 and at LaGuardia, where he performed in a rendition of Hairspray with schoolmate Kyle Jean-Baptiste and starred in the school's productions of Guys and Dolls. LaGuardia High School and Stagedoor Manor summer camp. Įlgort attended Trinity School (New York City), The Professional Performing Arts School, Fiorello H. Elgort went on to study there for five years. At age nine, his mother took him to try out for School of American Ballet. 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. He is a cousin of comedian Sam Morril, who is the son of his paternal uncle. Įlgort's Norwegian maternal grandmother, Aase-Grethe, was in the Norwegian resistance during World War II and saved Norwegian Jewish children by moving them into neutral Sweden because of these activities, she was imprisoned in a concentration camp. He is of Russian Jewish descent on his father's side, and of Norwegian, English and German ancestry on his mother's. Elgort's father named him after prominent nature photographer Ansel Adams (1902-1984). His parents are Arthur Elgort, a fashion photographer who has worked extensively for Vogue magazine and Grethe Barrett Holby, an opera director.
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