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Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is a U.S. actor. He is the middle of three children born to Warren and Debbie Wood, who nicknamed Elijah "Spark Plug." He has a brother Zack, a video game producer and seven years his senior, as well as a younger sister Hannah, a poet and actress.
A professional actor since the age of six, Wood is best known for the role of Frodo Baggins in the Lord of the Rings movies. He took the stage in his elementary school's rendition of the play The Sound of Music. The following year, he graduated to the title character of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Wood also served as choir boy during the production of See How They Run, produced by the Marion Creative Council.
His role as Frodo in The Lord of the Rings made him a star, but he has thus far resisted typecasting by choosing unsympathetic roles, such as a stalker in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and a serial killer in Sin City.
Elijah Wood Filmography
Actor
• Chain of Fools (2005)
• Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
• Sin City (2005)
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
• All I Want (2003)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)
• Ash Wednesday (2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)
• Black and White (2000)
• The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999)
• Deep Impact (1998)
• The Faculty (1998)
• The Ice Storm (1997)
• Flipper (1996)
• North (1994)
• The War (1994)
• The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993)
• The Good Son (1993)
• Forever Young (1992)
• Radio Flyer (1992)
• Avalon (1991)
• Paradise (1991)
• Back to the Future Part II (1989)
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