Born on the 28th of january in 1981, Elijah Jordan Wood grew up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, a city with about 120 000 citizen.

The son of Debbie and Warren Wood and brother of 7 years older brother Zack and 2 years younger sister Hannah, is today known as one of Hollywoods most talented actors. Moving to LA at the age of seven, Elijah experienced the first major change in his life in order to pursue a career.

However, Elijah began modelling at a young age and did television commercials before moving on to his first movie “Back to the future 2 “. Drawing more attention to himself at the beginning of the nineties with the movie “Avalon”, he had his first major role in “Paradise”, starring next to Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson.

Movies like “Forever young” and “Radio Flyer” were soon to follow, before starring next to Macaulay Culkin in “The good son”. After the rather small succes of that movie, Elijah had to fight his way through more and less succesful movies, such as “The war”, “North” and “Flipper” before finally drawing back a lot of attention by providing a very good performance in “The ice storm.”

As his popularity grew, Elijah starred in the sucessful “Deep impact” as well as sci-fi movie “The faculty”. The film version of “The bumblebee flies anyway” was another step on his career ledder.

In 2001 he landed his biggest succes by playing the leading role of Frodo Baggins in “Lord of the rings- the fellowship of the rings” as well as the other two parts of the movie “The two towers” and “The return of the king”.

After having a short affair with Franka Potente, who played in “Try seventeen” as well as he did, he errased Jim Carrey´s mind in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”. The last one of his movies, that could be seen in the movie theaters was “Everything illuminated”.

Today Elijah Wood is living in LA, California, dating Pam Racine, a dancer of the band Gogol Bordello.

Filmography

• 9 (2007)
• The Oxford Murders (2008)
• Day Zero (2007)
• Saving a Species: The Great Penguin Rescue (2006)
• Happy Feet (2006)
• "Robot Chicken" (1 episode, 2006)
• The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning (2006)
• Bobby (2006)
• Paris, je t'aime (2006)
• "American Dad!" (1 episode, 2006)
• Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
• Hooligans (2005)
• Sin City (2005)
• Video Hits: Paula Abdul (2005)
• Christmas on Mars (2005)
• "King of the Hill" (1 episode, 2004)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
• The Cranberries: The Best Videos 1992-2002 (2002)
• Try Seventeen (2002)
• The Adventures of Tom Thumb & Thumbelina (2002)
• Ash Wednesday (2002)
• "Electric Playground" (1 episode, 2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• Chain of Fools (2000)
• The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
• Black and White (1999)
• The Faculty (1998)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• Oliver Twist (1997)
• The Ice Storm (1997)
• "Homicide: Life on the Street" (1 episode, 1996)
• "Adventures from the Book of Virtues" (1 episode, 1996)
• Flipper (1996)
• Cranberries: Ridiculous Thoughts (1995)
• The War (1994)
• North (1994)
• "Frasier" (1 episode, 1994)
• The Good Son (1993)
• The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
• Forever Young (1992)
• Day-O (1992)
• Radio Flyer (1992)
• The Witness (1992)
• Paradise (1991)
• Avalon (1990)
• Child in the Night (1990)
• Internal Affairs (1990)
• Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Awards

• YoungStar Award Young Actor in a Drama Film "Deep Impact" 1998
• NATO ShoWest Young Star of the Year 1994