Ansel Elgort Wiki Biography, Age, Height, Girlfriend, Net Worth & Career

Ansel Elgort Wiki Biography & Net Worth  Career

What is Ansel Elgort Net Worth?

Early Life

AnselElgort’s Wiki Biography – AnselElgort was born in Manhattan. He is an American Actor and Model. His role as Augustus Waters, in “The Fault In Our Stars”, earned him immense popularity and appreciation.

Ansel is very well-known with over 8.6 million Instagram followers, more than 3.5 million Facebook followers, more than 7k Twitter followers, and more than 610k YouTube subscribers.

Personal life

Ansel Elgort is open-minded and willing to share his personal life with his supporters and fans. According to reports, he began dating Violetta Komyshan, his long-time friend and ballet dancer. The couple split in 2014, as Ansel wanted to focus more on his professional life than his personal life. They were able to reconcile again in 2015 due to their deep love.

Ansel is also an actor and dancer. Ansel is a professional skateboarder and is passionate about basketball. He enjoys drawing and painting, which are displayed in the state archives. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York City’s Bedford Stuyvesant.

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Age, Height and Weight

Ansel Elgort was born on 14/03/94 and is 26 years old today, 23/01/2021. He is 1.93 inches tall and he weighs 79kg.

Ansel Elgort – Career

Ansel Elgort began his professional career shortly after graduating from high school. This was just 18 years after he turned 18. In 2012, he played the leading role in a Broadway production entitled “Regrets”. He released his first movie, a remake of Carrie. His role in Divergent (2014) earned him major attention. After the movie was a huge success, his career took off.

After he had become famous, Ansel was called by the producers of “The Fault in Our Stars.” He was asked to portray Augustus Waters in that movie. It was based on John Green’s novel. Ansel was regarded as one of the best actors in the business after the movie became a huge success. He was nominated for the Best Actor Award under 20 in 2014.

• Ansel Elgort began his professional acting career just months after graduating from high school. He was 18 years old when he played the lead role in “Regrets”, an Off-Broadway production.
• His main acting career began with “Carrie”, a 2013 movie, and the role of Tommy Ross. He was the second lead role’s prom date.
• Brookside Artist Management Team, New York City, represents Ansel.
• He is also well-known for his role as Caleb Prior, a supporting character in “The Divergent Series” (2014-2016).
• Elgort’s next movie, “The Fault In Our Stars,” was announced as soon as filming was completed. It is a movie adaptation of John Green’s novel with Shailene Woodley.
• He should feel a special affection for Augustus Waters, his teenage cancer patient in “The Fault in Our Stars,” a romantic drama that was released in 2014.
• He also appeared in Men, Women & Children, directed by Jason Reitman, which was released in October 2014. He has also co-starred in films with Timothee Chalamet, his LaGuardia classmate.
• He was even on the Best Actors List for Under 20 Years in 2014.
• To represent the Oscars 2015 award for Best Visual Effects, he reunited with Chloe Grace Moretz his “Carrie” co-star.
• He reprised his role as Caleb Prior, in “The Divergent Series: Insurgent”. This was the second film in the Divergent paper-version series. It was released on March 20, 2015, and the third part was released on March 18, 2016, under the title “The Divergent Series: Allegiant”.
• He was nominated for the role of Han Solo in “Solo: A Star Wars Story” (2016). After the casting was complete and Alden Ehrenreich cast, Ansel Elgort shared his relief saying that if he was selected, he would have to change his DJ name to Ansolo.
• He was the lead role in “Baby Driver”, an action film that Edgar Wright directed in 2017. Elgort had to perform a dance routine while singing along to the chosen songs during the audition in 2014. With positive reviews and a strong performance at the box office, the film received a lot of praise. His performance earned him nominations for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.
• He was also seen in “November Criminals,” a drama thriller film based on the novel, Addison Schacht. This movie starred him alongside Chloe Grace.
• The actor was then pictured with Emma Roberts and Taron Egerton. Due to ongoing allegations of Kevin Spacey’s sexual misconduct, the release date was not set. The film’s future was uncertain. The movie was first released via video on demand on 17 July 2018. It was then limited to theatres on 17 August 2018. Vertical Entertainment had limited distribution.
• He played the role of the lead in “The Goldfinch”, a film adaptation of Donna Tartt’s novel. It was critically criticized and was a disaster at the box office.
• He was seen as Tony in “West Side Story”. Steven Spielberg directed the film, which was an adaptation of the 1957 Broadway musical of the same name. The film was released on 10th December 2021. It received 7 nominations for Academy Awards, including one for Best Picture.
• Next, he was a star in “Tokyo Vice”, an American T.V. adaptation of Jake Adelstein’s nonfictional memoir for HBO Max. The episodes were directed by Michael Mann and Destin Daniel Cretton. They were written by J.T. Rogers. Ansel was the main role of Adelstein, and also served as one of the other executive producers. The COVID-19 pandemic interrupted production, but production was resumed later and the series debuted on HBO Max on April 7, 2022.

Ansel Elgort’s Family

Ansel Elgort was the son of Arthur Elgort, a fashion photographer who worked extensively for Vogue magazine, and Grethe Barrett Holby, an opera director.

He has two siblings. Ansel’s sister Sophie Elgort, who was born in 1986, is a Fashion Photographer. Warren Elgort, who was born in 1989, is a Cinematographer. Ansel is the youngest child of three.

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Awards And Achievements

Ansel Elgort’s success as an actor has won him many awards, which are listed below.

1. 2018 Shorty Award for the Best Actor.
2. 2015 MTV Movie Award for the Best Kiss.
3. 2014 Young Hollywood Award for Outstanding Performance by a Young Actor
4. 2014 Teen Choice Award for Choice Movie: Chemistry

Who is Ansel Elgort Currently Dating?

Relationship

Ansel Elgort currently dates Violetta Komyshan, an American Social Media Personality. She is a dancer by training and is well-known for her workout routines.

Ansel Elgort Net Worth in 2022

Unknown and Interesting Facts about Ansel Elgort

• Ansel was named by his father after Ansel Adams, an American nature photographer.
• He descends from Russian-Jewish parents and is also of Norwegian, German, and English ancestry.

• His Norwegian Maternal Grandmother, Aase Grethe, saved many Norwegian Jewish children during World War II. She moved them to neutral Sweden and even had her cell taken over by a concentration camp.
• Sam Morril, his paternal uncle and comedian cousin, is his son.
• He is the youngest child of three siblings.
• His mother took him to the School of American Ballet when he was only nine years old. For almost five years, he studied there.
• The Trinity School in New York City was his next stop.
• He went on to The Professional Performing Arts School.
• Ansel attended Fiorello H.LaGuardia High School in New York to complete his high school education. He even began his acting classes there when he was only twelve years old. With his classmate Kyle Jean-Baptiste, he performed in the rendition of “Hairspray”. He was also part of the school’s production ‘Guys and Dolls.
• He had appeared in Teen Vogue in his high school years, around 2009, along with a Polish Model Jac Jagaciak, in an editorial shot by his father.
• He even went to the Stagedoor Manor as a summer camp.
• When it comes to qualifications, he has completed Graduation.
• According to internet reports, Ansel was 14 when he lost his virginity.
• He lived in Bedford-Stuyvesant in Brooklyn.
• Elgort asked his friends, family, and fans to donate to the Thirst Project for his 21st Birthday.
• He even shared his nude photos on social media in April 2020 as part of a fundraising effort for those affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
• A woman who used Twitter to openly accuse Ansel Elgort in 2014 of sexual assault against her, came forward on 19 June 2020. He was just 20 years old, and the girl was 17 years. He denied the accusations in his Instagram post. He stated that he and the girl had a legal, brief and completely consensual relationship. Ansel was also accused by another Twitter user of sending her unwelcome “private parts photos” in 2014. This happened when Ansel was only 14 years old.

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