Elijah Wood

Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor and producer. Wood made his film debut with a small part in Back to the Future Part II (1989) at the age of eight and achieved recognition as a child actor with roles in Avalon (1990) and The Good Son (1993). As a teenager, he starred in the films including North (1994), The War (1994), Flipper (1996), The Ice Storm (1997), and Deep Impact (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), Paris, je t'aime (2006), and I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017). His voice roles include Happy Feet (2006), The Legend of Spyro (2006–2008), 9 (2009), Red vs. Blue (2012), Tron: Uprising (2012–2013), and Over the Garden Wall (2014). On television, Wood starred in the series Wilfred (2011–2014) and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016–2017). 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 film production company for horror films, The Woodshed, renamed SpectreVision in 2013. Wood is a disc jockey, and has toured globally with his friend Zach Cowie as the duo Wooden Wisdom.

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