Elijah Wood
Acting
- Born:
- 1981-01-28
- Place of birth:
- Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
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.
Known For
Filmography
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
The Story of Wilfred
Among Us
Ready or Not: Here I Come
I Love LA
E.B. White's Charlotte's Web
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
The Monkey
Bookworm
Tony Pizzas Tony Pizzas
The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
I'm a Virgo
The Afterparty
Yellowjackets
Last Meals
No Man of God
Solar Noise
Home Movie: The Princess Bride
Reunited Apart
Come to Daddy
Eli Roth's History of Horror
Star Wars Resistance
The Panama Papers
Summer Camp Island
The Postman Dreams 2
78/52
Talking with Chris Hardwick
I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
The Trust
Join or Die with Craig Ferguson
The Last Witch Hunter
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Henry
Behind Over the Garden Wall
Made in Japan
Hot Ones
It's Better in Italian
Set Fire to the Stars
Over the Garden Wall
Cooties
Why Horror?
Open Windows
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Off Camera with Sam Jones
This Must Be the Only Fantasy
Mundos virtuales
Tome of the Unknown
Maniac: The Making of Documentary
Grand Piano
Pawn Shop Chronicles
Drunk History
A Band Called Death
Setup, Punch
Peter Panzerfaust
Maniac
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
The Ballad Of Danko Jones
The Narrative of Victor Karloch
Celeste & Jesse Forever
Revenge for Jolly!
TRON: Uprising
Double Fine Adventure
Treasure Island
Treasure Island
The Death and Return of Superman
Happy Feet Two
Nightmare Factory
Wilfred
Fight for Your Right Revisited
Boobie
WWII in HD: The Air War
Conan
The Romantics
The Heart is a Drum Machine
Beyond All Boundaries
9
Glenn Martin, DDS
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien
Operation Filmmaker
The Oxford Murders
Weathering the Storm: The Making of The Ice Storm
Yo Gabba Gabba!
Day Zero
The Graham Norton Show
Happy Feet
Freak Show
Bobby
The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'
The Making of 'The Two Towers'
The Making of 'The Return of the King'
Paris Je T'aime
The Colbert Report
Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie
Made in Hollywood
Green Street Hooligans
Everything Is Illuminated
I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust
Sin City
American Dad!
The Friday Night Project
Ringers: Lord of the Fans
A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
Dominic Monaghan Interviews Elijah Wood
A Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!!
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
The Two Towers: From Book to Script: Finding the Story
The Making of 'The Long and Short of It'
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
Red vs. Blue
Punk'd
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
The Cranberries - Stars: The Best Of Videos 1992-2002
The Fellowship of the Ring: A Day in the Life of a Hobbit
The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script
The Fellowship of the Ring: Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images
The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast
The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth
The Fellowship of the Ring: Scale
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Soundscapes of Middle-earth
The Fellowship of the Ring: The Road Goes Ever On..
Ash Wednesday
Try Seventeen
The Osbournes
Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'
Quest for the Ring
Primetime Glick
Chain of Fools
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
Black and White
Family Guy
The Faculty
TRL
Deep Impact
The Wonderful World of Disney
The Ice Storm
Oliver Twist
Taff
King of the Hill
Adventures from the Book of Virtues
The Daily Show
Flipper
The War
North
Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin
The Good Son
Frasier
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Late Show with David Letterman
The Adventures of Huck Finn
Homicide: Life on the Street
Forever Young
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Day-O
Radio Flyer
The Witness
Paradise
Avalon
Child in the Night
Internal Affairs
Back to the Future Part II
Wetten, dass..?
Saturday Night Live
The Oscars
L.A. Rush
Disney's Safety Hits Volume 1: Bike Safety With Bill Nye The Science Guy & I'm No Fool On Wheels
The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past