- He has a reputation for revealing plot-spoilers about his movies in interviews.
- Also records EDM under the moniker Ansølo.
- 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).
- Son of famed fashion photographer Arthur Elgort.
- 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.
- Son of Grethe Holby, an opera director. His siblings are photographer Sophie Elgort and filmmaker Warren Elgort.
- His father, a photographer, named him after renowned photographer Ansel Adams.
- He and Shailene Woodley played brother and sister in the Divergent (2014) films, and love interests in The Fault in Our Stars (2014).
- Attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School with Timothée Chalamet.
- Has a dog named Galo.
- Is friends with Joe Jonas.
- Attended Fiorello H LaGuardia High School from New York City alongside Timothée Chalamet and Jharrel Jerome.
- Is a New York Knicks fan.
- Nephew of Kristin Holby.
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