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Elijah Wood

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, his accolades include 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 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. Provided by Wikipedia