Birth Place: New York
Ansel Elgort attended LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts as a drama major, where he has starred as Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls and Link Larson in Hairspray. Ansel also attended Stagedoor Manor for seven years. His roles included Joseph in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat and Collins in Rent. Ansel found his love for performing through dance. He was featured tap-dancing at the CFDA Awards, 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.
In 2017, he played the title character in Edgar Wright's action thriller Baby Driver, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy. He is also known for his lead role in The Goldfinch (2019) and his performance in the lead role of Tony in Steven Spielberg's 2021 film version of West Side Story.
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