In 1995, he appeared in the music video for The Cranberries’ "Ridiculous Thoughts". Īlso in 1994, he had the title role in North, and was featured in a Super Bowl commercial for Wavy Lay's potato chips that had him repeatedly exchanging seats with spectators at a football game (including Dan Quayle) using its famous slogan. "Elijah Wood has emerged, I believe, as the most talented actor in his age group, in Hollywood history". His performance in this movie gained him a nomination for a 'Young Star Award' (for which he was nominated four times, and won twice), and Roger Ebert said in his review of the film: In 1994 he starred in The War (1994), with Kevin Costner. In 1993 he had the lead role in The Adventures of Huck Finn and also appeared with Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son. From there, he went on to co-star with Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis in Forever Young and with Joseph Mazzello in Radio Flyer (both were released in 1992). It was Wood's role as Aidan Quinn's son in Barry Levinson's 1990 film Avalon (the third film in the Baltimore trilogy containing 1982's Diner and 1987's Tin Men) that first gave Wood attention, as the film received widespread critical acclaim and was nominated for four Academy Awards.Īfter a small part in the Richard Gere movie Internal Affairs (1990), he secured his first starring role in Paradise (1991), playing a young boy who brings estranged couple Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson back together. Film work followed almost instantly in Back to the Future Part II (1989). Wood modeled and did local commercials before moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1988, where he got his first break, a small role in a video by Paula Abdul - " Forever Your Girl", directed by David Fincher. He also served as choir boy during the production of See How They Run, produced by the Marion Creative Council. The following year, he graduated to the title character in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. He took to the stage in his elementary school's staging of the play The Sound of Music. At age ten, Wood began modeling in his hometown and took piano lessons.
Wood has a brother seven years his senior, Zachariah "Zach" Wood, and a sister two years his junior, Hannah Wood. He is of English, Austrian, German, and Danish descent. Wood, the second of three children, was born and raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa to Debra D. In 2008, he set a new world record when he became the first person ever to cross Victoria Falls on ropes during an appearance on Jack Osbourne's show Adrenaline Junkie. In 2006, he became a well-known voice actor in video gaming and would soon become the voice of the video game icon, Spyro the Dragon. He was cast in the lead role of an Iggy Pop biopic to be called The Passenger, but after years of development, the project now appears to be shelved.
In 2005, he started his own record label, Simian Records. He also played an American tourist turned vampire in Paris, je t'aime. Most recently he starred in the film Day Zero (2007) and provided the voice of the main character, Mumble, in the award-winning animated film Happy Feet. Making his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II (1989), he landed a succession of larger roles and became a critically acclaimed child actor by age 13.Īfter his high-profile role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's critically acclaimed The Lord of the Rings trilogy, he has resisted typecasting by choosing varied roles in critically acclaimed films such as Bobby, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sin City, Green Street and Everything Is Illuminated. Actor Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor.
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