Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is a U.S. actor of English, Irish, German and Polish descent. He is the middle of 3 youngsters innate to Warren & Debbie Wood, world health organization nicknamed Elijah "Spark Plug" because he was the manically industrious tyke. He has the brother Zack, the videos game producer & vii years his senior, too as the immature sister Hannah, the poet & actress world health organization has got little roles within a total of his films.

a office actor since the age of nine, Wood is better known for the role of Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. He take stage within his simple school's rendition of the play The Sound of Music. A as punishment month, he graduated to the title character of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Wood also served when choir son when you took a production of Understand How else It Start, by a Marion Creative Council.

Making his film debut by having the minor a portion within Back to the Future II in 1989, Wood landed the succession of subsequent big roles & became a critically acclaimed toddler actor. His performance in The War gained him a nomination per YoungStar Awards (for which he was nominative 5 days & won it used to be that), & Roger Ebert said in his read of the film that "Elijah Wood has emerged, I believe, as the most talented actor in his age group in Hollywood history."

His role when Frodo in The Lord of the Rings mass produced him the star, however he has yet resisted typecasting by recently finding less sympathetic roles, like the stalker in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and a tone down psychopath cannibal serial killer in Sin City.

Wood recently won the role of a immature Iggy Pop in a however-to-exist as-filmed biographic account of the rock-star.

He might besides begin his have record label, Simian, late this month.

Filmography
Back to the Future II (1989) Internal Affairs (1990) Avalon (1990) Paradise (1991) Radio Flyer (1992) Day-O (1992) Huck Finn (1993) Forever Young (1992) North (1994) The Good Son (1993) The War (1994) Flipper (1996) The Ice Storm (1997) Oliver Twist (1997) Deep Impact (1998) The Faculty (1998) Black and White (1999) Chain Of Fools (2000) The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001) The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) All I Want (2003) Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Sin City (2005) Green Street Hooligans (2005) MTV Presents: The Next Generation Xbox Revealed (2005) Bobby (2006) Everything Is Illuminated (Post-production) Happy Feet (voice) (Post-production)

Trivia

Wood occurs as brobdingnagian music buff world health organization claims to have something in the range of 3,000 Video's, & cites his favorite band when a Smashing Pumpkins.

He briefly dated German actress Franka Potente and model and singer Bijou Phillips. When you took the recent locate by having Conan O'Brien, he laughed off rumors that he is gay, even recommending one website which makes such claims, calling it "hilarious". He is presently dating Pam Racine, the bandmate of actor/singer Eugene Hütz, who introduced them when co-starring within Wood's latest film Everything Is Illuminated. She seldom appears by owning him publically, & it keep a sale-profie, however friends say the few is virtually inseparable.

Wood occurs as Catholic & claims to however pray nightly.

When filming The Faculty he learned that casting had begun for Just released Zealand director Peter Jackson’s epic production of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Wood immediately got his friend, director George Huang, film an audition tape of him running off in the fields using crudely manufactured Hobbit feet, and sent a tape to Jackson. Despite Jackson’s initial assertion that 100% of a Hobbit characters would exist as played by British actors, he was immediately convert by Wood’s audition & the U.s. Wood was cast leading role of Tolkien’s flyspeck hero Frodo Baggins. Jackson late said he may not even believe an additional actor in the globecome world health organization would be better-suited to Frodo.

A cast of a Rings picture show was nominated for Right Ensemble Acting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for three years around the row. It eventually won inside 2003, for the third film The Return of the King. For his performance when Frodo Baggins, Elijah Wood was nominated by the MTV Movie Awards and for the final installment, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, he was nominated for a British Academy Award for Better Actor.

Inside an locate all about his latest film Everything Is Illuminated, director Liev Schreiber commented that his leading man Elijah Wood has the "generosity of spirit" & the "sincere goodness as a human being".

Quotes

"There's a lot more to life than Hollywood."

"Child acting is a cutthroat world, which is pretty frightening and really silly in retrospect. But it's the parents who are evil. It is a really difficult world to live in if you don't have a base, if you don't have a strong sense of yourself. My mom wanted me to maintain a reasonable degree of normalcy and to enjoy my childhood. Family is so important. I rarely meet families who are as close as we are. I feel really blessed."

"I find it offensive that it reflects on us that we as a society are fascinated by other people's lives and need that kind of information and it's more sensitive when you are kind of in the middle of it and you recognize that that could kind of be you at some point or people could be that interested in your private life and it's a weird thing. It's bizarre. I still find it incredibly strange, the breakup of Brad and Gwyneth made the front page of newspapers. That's our focus? That's kind of sad."

"I will be completely honest. I am not a huge fan of awards shows. It's a little -- it can be a little overwhelming -- it was fun for "Lord of the Rings" and I enjoyed the process, the first couple of times for the first couple of award shows, but once you've been to five in a row, it's a lot of fanfare that gets kind of old, especially if you're not particularly interested in the awards. I don't find it to be all that important. I would rather be home watching those kind of things on television. My God, the Oscars were -- I think it was like five hours. I was nearly falling asleep on camera. It was funny."

"I'm kind of insane when it comes to music, a little obsessed."

"I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the world."

"There's a real purity in New Zealand that doesn't exist in the states. It's actually not an easy thing to find in our world anymore. It's a unique place because it is so far away from the rest of the world. There is a sense of isolation and also being protected."

"I really don't think there is anybody in the business with better eyes than Elijah Wood"- Liev Schreiber

"If the eyes are the windows to the soul, Elijah Wood has garage doors."- Liev Schreiber

"No, I hadn’t worked with any of them. But I had been a huge fan of Elijah Wood even though he was only 18 when we started filming. I had seen almost all his movies, and I really like his work. I admired him because I was a child actor too and he was such an exquisite example of someone’s ability to carve out a career as a child performer with integrity and class."- Sean Astin