Ansel Elgort Net Worth

Ansel Elgort's Quotes

• I got into movies watching old films my dad had, the old Elia Kazan movies. It was those old movies, actually, that really got me started. Marlon Brando, Paul Newman - straight-up legends.
• I don't look at The Fault in Our Stars (2014) as a teenage movie. I looked at it like, this is a great script and a good character, and I was excited to do it. But of course I was looking forward to being part of a "real" movie. If it meant working with Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx and Jon Hamm, sign me up.

Interesting Facts about Ansel Elgort

1. Son of famed fashion photographer Arthur Elgort.
2. Son of Grethe Holby, an opera director. His siblings are photographer Sophie Elgort and filmmaker Warren Elgort.
3. Ansel's paternal grandfather, Harry Elgort, was a Russian Jewish immigrant, while Ansel's paternal grandmother, Sophie Didimamoff, was born in New York, to parents from the Russian Empire. Ansel's maternal grandfather, Warren Barrett Holby, was a prominent Westchester real estate developer, and had English, Scots-Irish/Northern Irish, and German ancestry. Ansel's maternal grandmother, Aase-Grethe, was Norwegian; during World War II, she served in the Resistance for the Norwegian Government-in-exile, and helped save Jews in Norway from the Holocaust. Because of these activities, Aase-Grethe was imprisoned in a concentration camp by the Nazis (from 1943 to 1944).
4. He has a reputation for revealing plot-spoilers about his movies in interviews.
5. Also records EDM under the moniker Ansølo.
6. Has a dog named Galo.
7. Is a New York Knicks fan.
8. Is friends with Joe Jonas.
9. He and Shailene Woodley played brother and sister in the Divergent (2014) films, and love interests in The Fault in Our Stars (2014).
10. Began training as a dancer at age nine at the insistence of his mother, who is a former ballerina and choreographer. He studied at the School of American Ballet.
11. Attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School with Timothée Chalamet.
12. Nephew of Kristin Holby.
13. His father, a photographer, named him after renowned photographer Ansel Adams.