Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor and producer. He is best known for his portrayal of Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012).
Wood made his film debut with a small part in Back to the Future Part II (1989). He went on to achieve recognition as a child actor with roles in Avalon (1990), Paradise (1991), Radio Flyer (1992), Forever Young (1992), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), and The Good Son (1993). As a teenager, he starred in films such as North (1994), The War (1994), Flipper (1996), The Ice Storm (1997), Deep Impact (1998), and The Faculty (1998). Following the success of The Lord of the Rings, Wood has appeared in a wide range of films, including Spy Kids 3D: Game Over (2003), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Sin City (2005), Green Street Hooligans (2005), Everything Is Illuminated (2005), Paris, je t’aime (2006), Bobby (2006), Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012), Maniac (2012), Grand Piano, Cooties, The Last Witch Hunter (2015), The Trust (2016), I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017), and Come to Daddy (2019).
Wood’s voice roles include Mumble in Happy Feet (2006) and its sequel (2011), the title character in 9 (2009), Spyro the Dragon in the Legend of Spyro video game trilogy (2006–2008), Beck on Disney XD’s Tron: Uprising (2012–2013), and Wirt in the Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall (2014). He also played Ryan Newman on the FX dark comedy series Wilfred (2011–2014), for which he received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor, and Todd Brotzman in the BBC America series Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (2016–2017).
Elijah Wood Biography / Wiki
| Name | Elijah Wood |
| Also Know | Ðлайджа Вуд, Ðлайджа Джордан Вуд, ì¼ë¼ì´ì € ìš°ë“œ, 伊利亚·ä¼å¾·, 伊莱贾·ä¼å¾·, 伊莱贾·乔丹·ä¼å¾· |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA |
| Date of Birth | January 28, 1981 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 42 |
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Elijah Wood Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers | Frodo | 2002-12-18 | Frodo and Sam are trekking to Mordor to destroy the One Ring of Power while Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn search for the orc-captured Merry and Pippin. A… |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King | Frodo | 2003-12-01 | Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron… |
| The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring | Frodo | 2001-12-18 | Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the han… |
| Everything Is Illuminated | Jonathan Safran Foer | 2005-09-16 | A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War I… |
| North | North | 1994-07-22 | Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don’t give North the attention he needs, so he files a … |
| Green Street Hooligans | Matt Buckner | 2005-09-09 | After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister’s home in England. Once there, he is befriended by … |
| 9 | 9 (voice) | 2009-08-19 | When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small comm… |
| The Oxford Murders | Martin | 2008-01-18 | At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symb… |
| The Faculty | Casey Connor | 1998-12-25 | When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that their faculty is being contro… |
| Happy Feet | Mumble (voice) | 2006-11-16 | Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fier… |
| The Adventures of Huck Finn | Huck Finn | 1993-04-02 | Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his lat… |
| Flipper | Sandy Ricks | 1996-05-17 | Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes ever… |
| Try Seventeen | Jones | 2002-09-10 | Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himse… |
| Fight for Your Right Revisited | Ad-Rock (B-Boys 1) | 2011-04-22 | Fight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the “young” Beastie Boys from the past and Jack Black, John C. Reil… |
| Day Zero | Aaron Feller | 2007-04-27 | The military draft is back. Three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they’re forced to confront everything th… |
| Happy Feet Two | Mumble (voice) | 2011-11-18 | Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters The Mighty Sven, a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mum… |
| The War | Stu Simmons | 1994-11-04 | The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad’s post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep … |
| The Bumblebee Flies Anyway | Barney Snow | 2000-01-01 | An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future…. |
| Maniac | Frank | 2012-12-26 | As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop’s deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface…. |
| Grand Piano | Tom Selznick | 2013-10-11 | Moments before his comeback performance, a concert pianist who suffers from stage fright discovers a note written on his music sheet…. |
| Setup, Punch | Reuben Stein | 2013-04-18 | Showing that there is always a reason to laugh, stand-up comic Reuben Stein does the most daring set of his life. The consequences will change his lif… |
| Open Windows | Nick Chambers | 2014-07-04 | Nick is excited to discover that he’s won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, he receiv… |
| Set Fire to the Stars | John M. Brinnin | 2014-11-07 | An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas…. |
| Made in Japan | Himself (voice) | 2015-03-17 | Made in Japan is the remarkable story of Tomi Fujiyama, the ï¬rst female Japanese country music star. From playing the USO circuit throughout Asia to… |
| Cooties | Clint | 2014-10-10 | A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley b… |
| The Narrative of Victor Karloch | William Merriwether | 2012-09-02 | The Narrative of Victor Karloch is a Gothic Victorian horror short film that uses 30 inch tall rod puppets, traditional shadow puppetry (woodcuts desi… |
| A Passage to Middle-earth: Making of ‘Lord of the Rings’ | Self | 2001-12-09 | … |
| The Panama Papers | Narrator | 2018-10-06 | A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the… |
| Come to Daddy | Norval Greenwood | 2019-04-25 | After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experie… |
| No Man of God | Bill Hagmaier | 2021-08-19 | The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy’s final years on death row…. |
| L.A. Rush | A father goes into the world of video gaming to save his teenage daughter from the control of a mysterious game developer…. | ||
| Steel BalI Run | Johnny Joestar | eIijah woods and tom hardees embark on a ballific journey of steels and balls. they ride on horses and play with balls…. | |
| The Good Son | Mark Evans | 1993-09-24 | A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who’s the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic be… |
| The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina | Tom Thumb (voice) | 2002-08-06 | Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are to… |
| The Witness | Little Boy | 1992-01-01 | In the Second World War, probably in a concentration camp somewhere, Gary Sinise is a soldier who conducts Jews everyday to some place where only clot… |
| Oliver Twist | The Artful Dodger | 1997-05-15 | Charles Dickens’ classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the … |
| Paradise | Willard Young | 1991-09-18 | A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl…. |
| Pawn Shop Chronicles | Johnny Shaw | 2013-07-12 | The stories of a missing wife, a couple of meth heads and an Elvis impersonator are connected by the items found in a small town’s pawn shop…. |
| Day-O | Day-O | 1992-05-03 | A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reap… |
| The Trust | David Waters | 2016-04-29 | A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault…. |
| Mundos virtuales | 2013-12-14 | … | |
| I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore | Tony | 2017-01-19 | When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon f… |
| Boobie | James | 2011-03-13 | Two young men find themselves at a precarious crossroads during a typical afternoon of horseplay…. |
| Behind Over the Garden Wall | Himself | 2015-07-08 | A special look at the making of Patrick McHale’s award winning miniseries Over the Garden Wall…. |
| Henry | 2015-07-28 | A hedgehog named Henry makes a wish on his birthday for friends to hug…. | |
| The Elephant 6 Recording Co. | Self | 2022-11-10 | The unique inside story of the collective creative evolution behind the sounds of 1990s psychedelic rock bands Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hot… |
| Forever Young | Nat Cooper | 1992-12-16 | A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that … |
| Chain of Fools | Mikey | 2000-09-22 | An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber…. |
| Deep Impact | Leo Biederman | 1998-05-08 | A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it’s up to the president of the United States to sav… |
| Ringers: Lord of the Fans | Self | 2005-01-21 | ‘Ringers: Lord of the Fans’ is a feature-length documentary that explores how “The Lord of the Rings” has influenced Western popular culture over the … |
| The Heart is a Drum Machine | Himself | 2010-03-09 | What is music? Many of today’s top artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession. The Heart is a… |
| Revenge for Jolly! | Thomas | 2012-07-17 | Harry is having a very, very bad day. He returns home from an all-night drinking binge with his cousin Cecil, to discover that his little dog Jolly…… |
| Tome of the Unknown | Wirt (voice) | 2013-10-24 | Wirt and Gregory are brothers who get tired of walking, so, they borrow a car from a romantic songster made of vegetables…. |
| The Last Witch Hunter | Dolan 37th | 2015-10-21 | The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unle… |
| Quest for the Ring | Himself | 2001-11-29 | … |
| The Quest Fulfilled: A Director’s Vision | Himself | 2003-12-26 | … |
| Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring | Self | 2001-12-23 | A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic count… |
| Radio Flyer | Mike | 1992-02-21 | A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. W… |
| Frodo Is Great… Who Is That?!! | Himself | 2004-07-23 | The documentary looks at the rise to celebrity status of NZ actor and musician Bret McKenzie, who appeared for 3 seconds as an extra in “The Lord of t… |
| The Toxic Avenger | After a terminally-ill janitor attempts to rob the company he works for, following his greedy employer’s refusal to pay for his treatment, he falls in… | ||
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Patrick | 2004-03-19 | Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his me… |
| Internal Affairs | Sean Stretch | 1990-01-12 | Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the a… |
| Ash Wednesday | Sean Sullivan | 2002-10-11 | Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980’s and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the I… |
| WWII in HD: The Air War | Andy Rooney (voice) | 2010-11-10 | … |
| A Band Called Death | Self | 2013-06-27 | Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early ’70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is cre… |
| The Romantics | Chip | 2010-09-10 | Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do†at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groo… |
| The Ice Storm | Mikey Carver | 1997-02-05 | In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century…. |
| Celeste & Jesse Forever | Scott | 2012-08-03 | Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked … |
| Child in the Night | Luke | 1990-05-01 | A child psychologist, Hollis who’s marriage collapsed after she learned she was barren, bonds with Luke Winfield, who witnessed his father’s murder at… |
| I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust | Klaus Langer / Dawid Rubinowicz (voice) | 2005-05-05 | Brings to life the diaries of young people who witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Through an emotional montage of archival footage, pe… |
| This Must Be the Only Fantasy | Trevor | 2013-12-31 | Set in present day Los Angeles, the film begins with a friendly teenage gathering but quickly evolves into a mystical journey, complete with a nefario… |
| The Cranberries – Stars: The Best Videos 1992-2002 | Boy with Hearphones (segment “Ridiculous Thoughts”) | 2002-11-26 | 1. Dreams 2. Linger 3. Zombie 4. Ode To My Family 5. I Can´t Be With You 6. Ridiculous Thoughts 7. Salvation 8. Free To Decide 9. When You´re Gone 1… |
| 78/52 | Self | 2017-10-13 | The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. 78/52 tells the… |
| Avalon | Michael Kaye | 1990-10-05 | A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a bett… |
| Operation Filmmaker | Himself | 2008-02-20 | Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a young and charismatic film student, Muthana Mohmed, stands in the rubble of the city’s film school and expla… |
| Nightmare Factory | Himself | 2011-10-27 | The story of how one Pittsburgh boy’s fascination with monsters drove him to the very top of the Hollywood food chain. In 1989, Greg Nicotero, much … |
| The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring | Self | 2006-08-29 | A behind the scenes documentary from the making of the “Fellowship of the Ring”… |
| The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey | Frodo | 2012-11-26 | Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mounta… |
| Back to the Future Part II | Video Game Boy | 1989-11-22 | Marty and Doc are at it again in this wacky sequel to the 1985 blockbuster as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the… |
| Sin City | Kevin | 2005-04-01 | Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call i… |
| Black and White | Wren | 1999-09-04 | Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high schoo… |
| Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over | The Guy | 2003-07-25 | Carmen’s caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids’ new nemesis, the Toymaker. It’s up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the worl… |
| Beyond All Boundaries | Corp. Wilfred Hanson / Capt. John C. Chapin | 2009-11-09 | A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects…. |
| Bobby | William Avary | 2006-09-05 | In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy’s assas… |
| Solar Noise | Self (archive footage) | 2020-09-19 | After experiencing an unexplained cosmic event, all inhabitants of planet Earth are able to glimpse scenes of the future…. |
| Why Horror? | Animation VO (voice) | 2014-10-03 | Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared…. |
| Paris Je T’aime | Le garçon (Quartier de la Madeleine) | 2006-06-21 | Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,… |
| Never Sleep Again: The Elm Street Legacy | Self (archive footage) | 2010-05-04 | For decades, Freddy Krueger has slashed his way through the dreams of countless youngsters, scaring up over half a billion dollars at the box office a… |
Elijah Wood Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Long and Short of It | First Assistant Director | 2003-01-01 | A workman gets some unexpected help from two people of vastly different sizes…. |
Elijah Wood Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| The Greasy Strangler | Producer | 2016-06-03 | Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love…. |
| Open Windows | Executive Producer | 2014-07-04 | Nick is excited to discover that he’s won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, he receiv… |
| A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night | Executive Producer | 2014-11-21 | In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampi… |
| The Boy | Producer | 2015-08-14 | An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing…. |
| Cooties | Producer | 2014-10-10 | A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley b… |
| The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes | Producer | In 1967, strait-laced exploitation movie king Roger Corman embarks on a life-changing attempt to capture the psychedelic world of LSD on film by takin… | |
| Mandy | Producer | 2018-09-13 | The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapu… |
| Bitch | Producer | 2017-01-20 | A woman snaps and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog as her checked-out, philandering husband attempts to keep the family together…. |
| Color Out of Space | Producer | 2019-09-07 | The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life… |
| Daniel Isn’t Real | Producer | 2019-12-06 | A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope…. |
| Dunwich Horror | Producer | Wilbur Whateley, the son of a disfigured albino mother and an unknown father, is indoctrinated into the world of the occult and the forbidden by his s… | |
| Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss | Producer | 2020-03-06 | A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there’s one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a dera… |
| No Man of God | Producer | 2021-08-19 | The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy’s final years on death row…. |
| Archenemy | Producer | 2020-12-11 | Max Fist claims he’s a hero from another dimension who has somehow landed on Earth and been stripped of his powers. Instead of treating him like a p… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Deep Web | Thanks | 2015-03-15 | Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century — the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, t… |
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