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Elijah Wood

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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.

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Films Featuring Elijah Wood

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

20048.1

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

20018.4

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

20028.4

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

20038.5

Back to the Future Part II

19897.8

Sin City

20057.5

Everything Is Illuminated

20057.3

The Cranberries - Stars: The Best Videos 1992-2002

20028.0

Paris Je T'aime

20066.8

Avalon

19906.7

Forever Young

19926.5

Bobby

20066.4

Internal Affairs

19906.4

Chain of Fools

20015.8

Radio Flyer

19927.0

North

19945.0

Deep Impact

19986.2

Green Street Hooligans

20057.3

Ash Wednesday

20025.4

9

20097.0

The Oxford Murders

20086.0

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over

20035.1

The Good Son

19936.8

The Faculty

19986.6

Happy Feet

20066.2

The Adventures of Huck Finn

19936.2

The Romantics

20104.9

Flipper

19965.5

Try Seventeen

20026.2

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina

20035.3

Fight for Your Right Revisited

20116.6

Day Zero

20074.8

The Witness

The Witness

19926.7

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

20127.4

Happy Feet Two

20116.2

Oliver Twist

19976.2

Paradise

19916.2

The Ice Storm

19976.9

Ringers: Lord of the Fans

20056.4

The War

19946.7

The Heart is a Drum Machine

20105.2

Operation Filmmaker

20086.5

Celeste & Jesse Forever

20126.4

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway

20006.3

Maniac

20126.0

L.A. Rush

Bookworm

20246.4

Open Windows

20145.1

Henry

20155.5

Child in the Night

19905.6

Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!!

20047.5

Revenge for Jolly!

20124.6

Maniac: The Making of Documentary

2013

Pawn Shop Chronicles

20135.8

Grand Piano

20136.0

Cooties

20145.9

Setup, Punch

2013

Nightmare Factory

20117.3

Day-O

19925.0

The Last Witch Hunter

20156.0

Set Fire to the Stars

20145.6

This Must Be the Only Fantasy

20132.5

Made in Japan

20155.0

Tome of the Unknown

20137.3

The Elephant 6 Recording Co.

20236.3

Disney's Safety Hits Volume 1: Bike Safety With Bill Nye The Science Guy & I'm No Fool On Wheels

Disney's Safety Hits Volume 1: Bike Safety With Bill Nye The Science Guy & I'm No Fool On Wheels

10.0

WWII in HD: The Air War

20108.6

The Trust

20165.2

The Monkey

20256.0

Mundos virtuales

2013

Black and White

19994.6

The Narrative of Victor Karloch

20125.0

The Ballad Of Danko Jones

2012

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'

20046.5

The Making of 'The Long and Short of It'

2003

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King

20038.1

Tony Pizzas Tony Pizzas

2023

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore

20176.6

78/52

20177.1

Quest for the Ring

20015.7

Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings'

20018.0

The Panama Papers

20186.7

Beyond All Boundaries

20096.8

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision

20036.4

Come to Daddy

20196.0

Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring

20016.6

Boobie

201110.0

Why Horror?

20145.9

I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust

20055.3

No Man of God

20216.6

Behind Over the Garden Wall

20157.0

Solar Noise

20206.3

The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring'

20068.8

The Toxic Avenger Unrated

20255.9

A Band Called Death

20137.2

The Making of 'The Two Towers'

20068.8

The Making of 'The Return of the King'

20068.8

The Postman Dreams 2

2017

Ready or Not: Here I Come

20267.6

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

2027

Weathering the Storm: The Making of The Ice Storm

2007

From Book to Script: Finding the Story

200310.0

A Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

20046.8

It's Better in Italian

2015

A Day in the Life of a Hobbit

20027.0

The Lord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past

Dominic Monaghan Interviews Elijah Wood

2004

The Death and Return of Superman

2011

The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script

2002

The Fellowship of the Ring: Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images

2002

The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design

2002

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast

2002

The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth

2002

The Fellowship of the Ring: Scale

2002

The Soundscapes of Middle-earth

2002

The Fellowship of the Ring: The Road Goes Ever On..

2002