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Elijah Wood

Elijah Wood

Acting · Production · Crew · Directing

Born January 28, 1981, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Elijah Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Appearances as themselves (64)
  • 2026The Story of Wilfred — Self
  • 2023The Elephant 6 Recording Co. — Self
  • Last Meals — Self
  • Reunited Apart — Self
  • 2020Solar Noise — Self (archive footage)
  • Eli Roth's History of Horror — Self
  • 201778/52 — Self
  • Talking with Chris Hardwick — Self
  • Join or Die with Craig Ferguson — Self
  • 2015Behind Over the Garden Wall — Self
  • Hot Ones — Self
  • 2015It's Better in Italian — Self
  • The Late Show with Stephen Colbert — Self - Guest
  • Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self, Self - Guest
  • Off Camera with Sam Jones — Self
  • The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
  • 2013A Band Called Death — Self
  • 2013Maniac: The Making of Documentary — Self
  • Double Fine Adventure — Himself
  • 2011Nightmare Factory — Self
  • Conan — Self
  • 2010The Heart is a Drum Machine — Self
  • The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen — Self - Guest
  • 2008Operation Filmmaker — Self
  • The Graham Norton Show — Self
  • 2007Weathering the Storm: The Making of The Ice Storm — Self
  • 2006The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' — Self
  • 2006The Making of 'The Return of the King' — Self
  • 2006The Making of 'The Two Towers' — Self
  • Made in Hollywood — Self
  • 2005Ringers: Lord of the Fans — Self
  • The Colbert Report — Self (uncredited)
  • The Friday Night Project — Self - Host
  • 2004A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' — Self
  • 2004Dominic Monaghan Interviews Elijah Wood — Self
  • 2004Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! — Self
  • 2003Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King — Self
  • 2003From Book to Script: Finding the Story — Self
  • Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self
  • Punk'd — Self
  • 2003The Making of 'The Long and Short of It' — Self
  • 2003The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision — Self
  • 2002A Day in the Life of a Hobbit — Self
  • 2002The Fellowship of the Ring: Cameras in Middle-earth — Self
  • 2002The Fellowship of the Ring: Designing and Building Middle-earth + Weta Workshop + Costume Design — Self
  • 2002The Fellowship of the Ring: From Book to Script — Self
  • 2002The Fellowship of the Ring: Scale — Self
  • 2002The Fellowship of the Ring: Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images — Self
  • 2002The Fellowship of the Ring: The Fellowship of the Cast — Self
  • 2002The Fellowship of the Ring: The Road Goes Ever On.. — Self
  • The Osbournes — Self
  • 2002The Soundscapes of Middle-earth — Self
  • 2001Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring — Self
  • 2001Passage to Middle-Earth: The Making of 'The Lord of the Rings' — Self
  • 2001Quest for the Ring — Self
  • Taff — self
  • The Daily Show — Self
  • Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin — self
  • Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
  • Late Show with David Letterman — Self - Guest
  • Wetten, dass..? — Self
  • Saturday Night Live — Self - Host, Self - Cameo (uncredited), Self (uncredited)
  • The Oscars — Self
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