After The Cast of Elf would pull in 220 million dollars WORLDWIDE against a 33million dollar
budget back in 2003.
After Will Ferrell would be praised by audiences for his performance as Buddy the Elf, which
some have even credited as being his best big screen role of his entire career.
After Elf would be celebrated year after year at Christmastime, on Netflix and cable TV,
and considered one of the greatest Christmas movies of all time
After Elf would inspire its own Broadway musical in 2010 titled “Elf the Musical” and an
NBC animated tv special in 2014 titled Elf: Buddy’s Musical Christmas.
Since the success of Elf, the leading man himself Will Ferrel has had no shortage of
jobs but like many of his co-stars from this film he prefers to keep his life off of social
media.
Will’s starred in many roles over the past decade or two even into this year and lined
up for next.
So what happened to the rest of the cast?
Well I’m sure you all remember Miles Finch from the movie, who attacks Buddy because
he mistakes him for an elf.
That’s none other than Peter Dinklage…Game of Thrones mega star super star now whose
net worth is massive.
Another star from this film has gone on to date a Property Brother and then there were
his parents Walter and Emily one of which Will Ferrel worked with again in a movie you
might remember.
Then there is his kid brother Michael and even the manager at the department store...
What have they been up to since?
We have got the full scoop in this video... and one of the cast members well they even
got arrested.
Could you tell who that was?
We will explain a little later in this video.
What's going on guys?
It's your boy Michael McCrudden back at it with another Christmas Classic just in time
for the holidays.
For this video I'm actually gonna get some help from my girlfriend Kara – trust me
she looks a whole lot better doing this than me.
KARA: Hey guys,Every Christmas Elf is one of those
movies I get excited to watch.
Something about it just never gets old and can still make me laugh after so many years.
It's hard to believe it came out way back in 2003…and a lot has changed since then.
Thanks for having me back on the channel.
We have a whole lot to get through so let's get into this video.
Also, if you want us to do something similar on any other cast members of films like The
Santa Claus or Home Alone let me know in the comments down below.
Now let's get into this video.
Elf was released on November 7th, 2003 and was directed by Jon Favreau.
For the two of you who have yet to see the film, Elf is a Christmas comedy that centres
around Buddy– a human who was adopted and raised by Santa’s Elves.
When Buddy the Elf, played by Will Ferrell, learns about his background he heads to New
York City to find his biological father…and then all the fun begins.
Is it just me or do most of the best holiday movies take place in the big Apple?
Will Ferrell seems to be hilarious in any roles he plays.
Starring as a family-friendly Christmas elf was actually a bit of a risk in his career,
but in the end he killed it became everyones favourite real life Elf.
So Will Ferrell has been getting plenty of acting jobs since 2003 – that’s for sure
and the man is still as funny as ever.
I mean 2003 would've been a hard year to top considering Will did Both Elf AND Old School
… another favourite Who could forget that scene?
Unfortunately, Mr Ferrell isn’t active on social media and when he deleted his Facebook
page last year he admitted: “I have always had an aversion to social
media and have primarily used it as a tool to help support our work at Funny Or Die,
some of my personal projects, as well as charity causes that I am passionate about.”
& with that, the world would get no selfies or a much of a glimpse into his personal life.
At the time of this recording, Will is 52 years which would of made him 36 at the time
they filmed Elf.
Aside from being an actor and comedian he’s also a producer, writer, and a businessman.Since
Elf, he’s starred in multiple movies.
Some of the many include Anchorman, Wedding Crashers, Talladega Nights, and one of my
faves – Step Brothers.
In 2019 alone he had a handful of movies too including Between Two Ferns
Not to mention Will got an Emmy for his work on SNL and in 2015 was named Best Comedian
by British GQ.
That same year he was also awarded with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Another star from Elf who found a ton of success after the movie was of course Buddy’s love
interest, Jovie played by Zooey Deschanel.
She ditched the blonde hair, but brunette Zooey has had a lot of accomplishments since
the movie.
We heard her lovely singing voice in Elf, but she also had her own music career.
Most notably in 2006 she started the duo with M.Ward called She & Him and they released
5 albums together
At the time of this recording, Zooey is 39 years old, she’s been married twice before,
and has 2 kids.
BUT In more recent news, her latest love interest is actually one of those Property Brother
dudes – Johnathan Scott The two actually met on an episode of carpool
karaoke.
Aside from her love life, one of her biggest accomplishments has gotta be her long running
role as Jess on the sitcom New Girl which ran for 7 seasons.
Not only did she kill it as the main character, she also co produced a lot of the episodes.
Over on Instagram Zooey has 5.5million followers (@Zooeydeschanel) and seems like she’s an
ambassador for Crocs
Oh and she was also hanging out on Sesame Street.
I think if I was a celeb, appearing on Sesame Street that would be one of those moments
where I would know I truly made it!
Next up we got Buddy’s “Human” family from the movie.
His dad Walter, his mom Emily and his lil bro Michael.
Well, Walter is in his 70s at the time of this recording so things have slowed down
for him a little bit.
Actor James Chann's biggest acting gigs were pre Elf but he’s done voice work for Cloudy
With A Chance of Meatballs as well as plenty of smaller movie roles, even as recent as
this year.
James also taught a master class for film students in recent years.
He two isn't a fan of social media but at least James is active on Twitter
Mary Steenburgen who we knew as Walter’s wife Emily or Buddy’s “mom” played Will
Ferrell’s mom once again after Elf like I mentioned earlier.
Guess they were a good match.
You all gotta remember this from the movie Step Brothers in 2008.
Well Mary has done plenty of work aside from Stepbrothers including movies like The Proposal,
Last Vegas, Book Club which was just last year, and more.
The woman is in her 60s but she looks great and she’s active on Instagram unlike half
of the cast members with 114k followers on the platform (@mary_steenburgen).
Looks like Mary and her husband Ted Danson are still hitting the red carpets and enjoying
their Hollywood social life as well.
Mary’s even been working on her songwriting skills and co wrote a song for the indie film
Wild Rose that might even be up for some awards.
You may not have known about this secret talent but she’s been working on it on the down
low for the past few years.
As for Buddy’s little bro Michael…what happened to him?
(photo Michael) I was hoping he’d be on social media considering he’d only be 27
at the time of this recording.
BUT no such luck.
These days…little Michael actually went on to be an SAT instructor (Photo Daniel now).
He did some voice acting post Elf, but not much else.
He then chose to step out of the Hollywood spotlight altogether.Daniel’s profile on
the SAT tutor website tells us he graduated from Yale, studied economics, even studied
Mandarin, and worked as a bilingual editor.
Considering the guy has no Instagram, no twitter, no NOTHING, I wonder if he’d ever come back
for an Elf reunion?
Poor kid probably got a life time of snow balls thrown at him after the film hit theatres.
Kids can be so cruel when they are jealous....
Next up is someone who didn’t have a huge role in Elf but definitely made one of the
best scenes in the movie – Miles Finch played by Peter Dinklage.
Aside from Will Ferrell himself, Id say Mr Dinklage has had the most Hollywood success
following Elf.
He’s 50 at the time of this recording and in The same year as Elf in 2003, Peter starred
in the TV series Nip Tuck which I was obsessed with.
I’ll always remember him playing the nanny.
He also had a breakout role in the movie The Station Agent which was also released in 2003.
Post Elf, Peter moved onto bigger and better roles including X Men and Three Billboards
Outside Ebbing Missouri.
Most notably though he starred on the HBO series Game of Thrones as Tyrion Lannister
from 2011 til present day, making him the star he is now.
He even won an Emmy and a Golden Globe Award for Game of Thrones.
Peter has no Instagram either – no surprise there but he’s definitely living the life
with his wife Erica and their two kids.
He's also amassed an estimated 15 million dollar net worth.
It seems like he’s come a long way since his small role as Miles Finch – wait, i
didn't mean small, I meant short...
I mean.... ah, at least I didn't call him an elf.
Now for one final character you may be wondering about…or maybe not.
The manager who was played by Faizon Love.
And lemme tell you he’s got an interesting story after acting in Elf.
First just take in his pic on IMDB…so damn mysterious Anyways at the time of this recording
he’s 51 and he’s active on Instagram … where he has 156K followers (@faizonlove) and some
“questionable” posts I see the man likes his cigars too
If he looks familiar from other movies, he’s been in TV and movies since, like The Perfect
Holiday and Couples Retreat.
What you may have not known is that Faizon was arrested in 2017 for attacking some valet
guy.
I can honestly say I had no idea that happened and it looked pretty intense.
Guess that blew over but Faizon still earned himself quite the mugshot (photo mugshot).