Today is Cary Elwes' 50th birthday!
Elwes has been around for a long time now, and no that's not intended to be an old joke. He got his start as a disco dancer in the 1979 Yesterday's Hero, but since then has gone on to great things. Well, okay, great thing: eight years after his appearance in Yesterday's Hero Elwes took on the role of the dashing Westley in the film adaptation of The Princess Bride. This film really made him, or at least his 25-year-old self, recognizable to people of all generations. Since then he's been in a number of movies, but has yet to really recapture the greatness of Princess Bride. You can see him in Glory, Days of Thunder, Bram Stroker's Dracula, Robin Hood: Men in Tights, Liar Liar, and both Saw and Saw 3D, to name some of his movies. In my opinion, the appeal of having Cary Elwes in films is more the moment of "hey, it's Westley!" than anything else, but I still enjoy watching him act.
Happy 50th!
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