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<html> <head> <title>Elijah Wood</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/765/000022699/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Elijah Wood<img src="elijah-devil-sized.jpg" height=319 width=220 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Elijah Wood">AKA Elijah Jordan WoodBorn: <a href="/lists/545/000106227/" class=proflink>28-Jan</a>-<a href="/lists/980/000105665/" class=proflink>1981</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/448/000069241/" class=proflink>Cedar Rapids, IA</a> Gender: Male Religion: <a href="/lists/758/000094476/" class=proflink>Roman Catholic</a> Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: ActorNationality: United States Executive summary: Frodo Baggins in Lord of the RingsElijah Wood's mother thought he was cute, so she enrolled him in modeling classes. And she was right -- with those huge eyes he looked like a Margaret Keane painting. Almost immediately he was earning a brisk income in commercials, and soon the Woods sold the family's deli and moved to Los Angeles. His career as an actor started at the age of eight, with a small role in Back to the Future Part II with <a href="/people/851/000022785/">Michael J. Fox</a>, and playing a pipsqueak executive in <a href="/people/883/000025808/">Paula Abdul</a>'s video for "Forever Your Girl". His first role demanding more than a line or two was in <a href="/people/748/000023679/">Barry Levinson</a>'s Avalon, as the bow-tie wearing son of <a href="/people/623/000025548/">Aidan Quinn</a>. At nine years of age he played the shy visitor to troubled <a href="/people/021/000024946/">Don Johnson</a> and <a href="/people/525/000025450/">Melanie Griffith</a> in Paradise, and at ten he played a traumatically abused boy in Radio Flyer with <a href="/people/745/000043616/">Adam Baldwin</a>. He was victimized by demonic <a href="/people/682/000022616/">Macaulay Culkin</a> in The Good Son, and went shopping for parents in <a href="/people/784/000024712/">Rob Reiner</a>'s disastrous North with <a href="/people/714/000024642/">Jason Alexander</a> and <a href="/people/816/000025741/">Julia Louis-Dreyfus</a>. In Flipper he swam with a dolphin, and in The Ice Storm he smoked dope and made out with <a href="/people/752/000025677/">Christina Ricci</a> while she wore a <a href="/people/110/000024038/">Nixon</a> mask. He starred as Frodo Baggins in the blockbuster Lord of the Rings trilogy with <a href="/people/776/000022710/">Sean Astin</a> and <a href="/people/084/000024012/">Ian McKellen</a>. Wood got the role by designing his own costume, filming a video of himself as Baggins, and sending it to director <a href="/people/848/000025773/">Peter Jackson</a> with a note telling him he loved the <a href="/people/511/000022445/">J. R. R. Tolkien</a> books. After his perilous quest to destroy the Ring of Sauron, Wood played the unscrupulous lab technician who pursues <a href="/people/582/000023513/">Kate Winslet</a> in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the serial killer in Sin City with <a href="/people/776/000025701/">Jessica Alba</a>, a man wandering through his grandfather's homeland in Everything is Illuminated, and the boy who plans to marry <a href="/people/909/000044777/">Lindsay Lohan</a> to sidestep the Vietnam War in Bobby. Wood likes <a href="/music/558/000039441/">Smashing Pumpkins</a>, collects Star Wars memorabilia, and says his favorite movie is Harvey with <a href="/people/659/000026581/">Jimmy Stewart</a>. His parents divorced in 1996, when Wood was 15. His brother, Zach Wood, produces video games for Midway Home Entertainment, including Area 51, SpyHunter 2, and <a href="/people/759/000022693/">Jackie Chan</a>'s Stuntmaster.Father: Warren Wood (owned a delicatessen) Mother: Debbie Brother: Zachariah Wood (video game designer, b. circa 1974) Sister: Hannah Wood (book store clerk, b. 7-Oct-1983) Girlfriend: <a href="/people/980/000047839/">Bijou Phillips</a> (actress, dated 1999-2000) Girlfriend: Franka Potente (German actress, b. 1974, dated 2002) Girlfriend: Pamela Racine (dancer/drummer with <a href="/music/414/000095129/">Gogol Bordello</a>, b. 1977, dated 2006)     Risk Factors: <a href="/lists/778/000064586/">Smoking</a>, <a href="/lists/454/000159974/">Appendicitis</a>     FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR     <a href="/films/751/000404536/">The Panama Papers (6-Oct-2018)</a> [VOICE]     <a href="/films/146/000404928/">I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (19-Jan-2017)</a>     <a href="/films/855/000405637/">The Trust (13-Mar-2016)</a>     <a href="/films/394/000397200/">The Last Witch Hunter (13-Oct-2015)</a>     <a href="/films/398/000405180/">Over the Garden Wall (3-Nov-2014)</a>     <a href="/films/748/000384593/">Set Fire to the Stars (23-Jun-2014)</a>     <a href="/films/017/000384859/">Open Windows (10-Mar-2014)</a>     <a href="/films/467/000397273/">Cooties (18-Jan-2014)</a>     <a href="/films/601/000380458/">Grand Piano (20-Sep-2013)</a>     <a href="/films/468/000380325/">The Wind Rises (20-Jul-2013)</a> [VOICE]     <a href="/films/218/000369108/">Pawn Shop Chronicles (12-Jul-2013)</a>     <a href="/films/878/000357804/">The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (28-Nov-2012)</a>     <a href="/films/884/000367780/">Maniac (26-May-2012)</a>     <a href="/films/465/000354400/">Celeste and Jesse Forever (20-Jan-2012)</a>     <a href="/films/743/000281897/">Treasure Island (1-Jan-2012)</a>     <a href="/films/367/000276536/">Happy Feet Two (17-Nov-2011)</a> · Mumble [VOICE]     <a href="/films/744/000386583/">Nightmare Factory (27-Oct-2011)</a> · Himself     <a href="/films/777/000252021/">The Romantics (24-Jan-2010)</a> · Chip     <a href="/films/835/000207214/">9 (19-Aug-2009)</a> · #9 [VOICE]     <a href="/films/149/000204534/">The Oxford Murders (18-Jan-2008)</a> · Martin     <a href="/films/131/000209501/">Day Zero (29-Apr-2007)</a> · Feller     <a href="/films/172/000263380/">Operation Filmmaker (Jan-2007)</a> · Himself     <a href="/films/392/000123023/">Happy Feet (16-Nov-2006)</a> [VOICE]     <a href="/films/524/000129137/">Bobby (5-Sep-2006)</a>     <a href="/films/843/000130453/">Paris, je t'aime (18-May-2006)</a>     <a href="/films/875/000103566/">Everything Is Illuminated (3-Sep-2005)</a> · Jonathan Safran Foer     <a href="/films/938/000092662/">Sin City (1-Apr-2005)</a>     <a href="/films/712/000112376/">Green Street Hooligans (2005)</a>     <a href="/films/435/000039318/">Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (19-Mar-2004)</a> · Patrick     <a href="/films/388/000034286/">The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (1-Dec-2003)</a>     <a href="/films/398/000033299/">Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (25-Jul-2003)</a> · The GUY     <a href="/films/387/000034285/">The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (5-Dec-2002)</a> · Frodo     <a href="/films/441/000037330/">All I Want (10-Sep-2002)</a>     <a href="/films/771/000133372/">The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina (6-Aug-2002)</a> · Tom Thumb [VOICE]     <a href="/films/443/000037332/">Ash Wednesday (11-May-2002)</a>     <a href="/films/386/000034284/">The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (10-Dec-2001)</a> · Frodo     <a href="/films/440/000037329/">Chain of Fools (22-Sep-2000)</a>     <a href="/films/796/000036688/">Black and White (4-Sep-1999)</a>     <a href="/films/455/000037344/">The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (Sep-1999)</a>     <a href="/films/501/000032405/">The Faculty (12-Nov-1998)</a> · Casey     <a href="/films/842/000033743/">Deep Impact (7-May-1998)</a> · Leo Biederman     <a href="/films/420/000063231/">Oliver Twist (16-Nov-1997)</a>     <a href="/films/545/000036437/">The Ice Storm (12-May-1997)</a>     <a href="/films/144/000033045/">Flipper (17-May-1996)</a> · Sandy     <a href="/films/379/000036271/">The War (4-Nov-1994)</a>     <a href="/films/759/000041636/">North (22-Jul-1994)</a> · North     <a href="/films/103/000034001/">The Good Son (24-Sep-1993)</a> · Mark     <a href="/films/444/000037333/">The Adventures of Huck Finn (2-Apr-1993)</a>     <a href="/films/134/000033035/">Forever Young (16-Dec-1992)</a> · Nat     <a href="/films/085/000035977/">Radio Flyer (21-Feb-1992)</a> · Mike     <a href="/films/566/000036458/">Paradise (12-Sep-1991)</a> · Willard Young     <a href="/films/454/000037343/">Avalon (5-Oct-1990)</a>     <a href="/films/104/000243372/">Child in the Night (1-May-1990)</a>     <a href="/films/439/000037328/">Internal Affairs (12-Jan-1990)</a> · Sean     <a href="/films/614/000032518/">Back to the Future Part II (22-Nov-1989)</a> · Video Game Boy Appears on the cover of: Time, 2-Dec-2002, DETAILS: Return of the Rings (centered, surrounded by other characters from the film) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=22699"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=22699">Elijah Wood</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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