Ansel Elgort

Ansel Elgort has quickly amassed an impressive body of work in a very short amount of time as both an accomplished actor and musician. In addition to acting, Elgort sings and produces and is signed as a recording artist to Island Records. He released his first single "Home Alone," which peaked at #2 on the Spotify viral charts in 2016.

Elgort's film credits include a cameo in Twentieth Century Fox's Paper Towns, Paramount Pictures' Men, Women & Children, Screen Gems' Carrie and most notably Fox 2000's The Fault in Our Stars. The film earned Elgort a slew of awards including a Teen Choice Award for Choice Breakout Star and Choice Movie Actor: Drama, a Young Hollywood Award for Fan Favorite Male Actor, and a MTV Movie Award for Movie of the Year.

A graduate of LaGuardia High School of the Performing Arts, Elgort starred opposite Alexis Bledel in Matt Charman's play "Regrets," directed by Carolyn Cantor for Manhattan Theater Club, while finishing up his senior year of high school. His performance received rave reviews, including Bloomberg's "Elgort is a magnetic presence destined perhaps for the multiplex" and the AP's "Elgort radiates the brooding magnetism of James Dean, uplifted by a kind of glinting purity." After the closing of the 24 play, Ansel was cast as the role of 'Tommy Ross' in Kimberly Peirce's Carrie opposite Julianne Moore.

Ansel found his love for performing through dance early on. He was featured tap-dancing at the CFDA Awards in 2011, and as a child he performed both in The Nutcracker and Swan Lake at Lincoln Center with the New York City Ballet. As a singer, Ansel has worked with many composers including Jason Robert Brown, Glen Roven and Louis Andriessen. Elgort also DJ's under his Ansolo logo.

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