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Elijah Wood

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Birthdate

1981-01-28 (Age: 45)

Place of Birth

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

Elijah Wood

Biography

Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor and producer. A prominent child actor of the 1990s and a prolific figure in major studio features of the early 2000s, he earned accolades including two Saturn Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award. Wood made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II (1989) at the age of eight and achieved recognition in the early 1990s as a child actor with roles such as Avalon (1990), Forever Young (1992), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), and The Good Son (1993). As a teenager, he starred in the films North (1994), The War (1994), Flipper (1996), The Ice Storm (1997), Deep Impact (1998), and The Faculty (1998). Wood achieved international fame in the early 2000s for playing the hobbit Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy(2001–2003), based on the classic fantasy novel of the same name by English author J. R. R. Tolkien. As an adult, Wood appeared in a wide range of films, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Sin City (2005), and I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017). He has had voice roles in projects such as Happy Feet (2006), The Legend of Spyro (2006–2008), 9 (2009), Tron: Uprising (2012–2013), and Over the Garden Wall (2014). On television, Wood starred in the series Wilfred (2011–2014), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016–2017), and Yellowjackets (2023–2025). Wood founded the record label Simian Records in 2005, which was dissolved in 2015. He directed the 2007 music video "Energy" for The Apples in Stereo. In 2010, Wood co-founded a horror film production company, The Woodshed, which was renamed SpectreVision in 2014. Wood is a disc jockey and has toured globally with his friend Zach Cowie as the duo Wooden Wisdom. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elijah Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography (105)

⭐ 0 Role: Frodo Baggins

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

2027
⭐ 7.7 Role: The Lawyer

Ready or Not: Here I Come

2026
⭐ 6.0 Role: Fritz Garbinger, his Creepy Brother

The Toxic Avenger Unrated

2025
⭐ 6.0 Role: Ted

The Monkey

2025
⭐ 6.5 Role: Strawn Wise

Bookworm

2024
⭐ 0 Role: Elijah Wood

Tony Pizzas Tony Pizzas

2023
⭐ 5.7 Role: Self

The Elephant 6 Recording Co.

2023
⭐ 6.6 Role: Bill Hagmaier

No Man of God

2021
⭐ 6.3 Role: Self (archive footage)

Solar Noise

2020
⭐ 6.0 Role: Norval Greenwood

Come to Daddy

2019
⭐ 6.7 Role: John Doe (voice)

The Panama Papers

2018
⭐ 0 Role: Unknown

The Postman Dreams 2

2017
⭐ 7.2 Role: Self

78/52

2017
⭐ 6.6 Role: Tony

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

2017
⭐ 5.2 Role: David Waters

The Trust

2016