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Elijah Wood

Age: 28
Height: 5' 6"

Birth Place: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Born: Jan. 28th, 1981

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Elijah Wood's Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
Adventures from the Book of Virtues	Icarus
Player$	Elijah Wood

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Elijah Jordan Wood was born on January 28, 1981, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to Warren and Debbie Wood. He has an older brother Zack and a younger sister Hannah Wood (I). At an early age Elijah showed a knack for entertaining and wowing audiences, and his mother decided to take him to Los Angeles for an Annual International Modeling and Talent Association convention. He quickly landed himself an acting job. Soon he began popping up in commercials and then in small parts on television, but he got his first major part appearing in Avalon (1990) in 1990. His acting career took off from there, and he began appearing in films such as Paradise (1991), Radio Flyer (1992) and Forever Young (1992), with Mel Gibson (I). After The Good Son (1993) with Macaulay Culkin, Elijah appeared in North (1994). Although the film was deemed a flop at the box office, Elijah was praised as the only good thing to come out of it. In 1996 Elijah starred in a movie remake of an old TV show, Flipper (1996), and immediately regained his old strength. He appeared in countless films after that. Many critics wondered if his ability as a child actor to capture an audience was wearing thin, as had many child actors', but Elijah has proved that it has only made him stronger. Deep Impact (1998) and The Faculty (1998) were produced after that, and were quite successful. In 1999 Elijah was in three movies that never made it into wide release: The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (1999) (released on satellite TV), Black and White (1999/I) (released on home video) and Chain of Fools (2000). Elijah next went to work on what has been called the biggest project ever to hit the movies, the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, based on the books by J.R.R. Tolkien.

TRIVIA:

His family owned a deli which they sold so they could move to California.
He became a child model when his mother wanted him to burn off excessive energy.
Was number 75 on vh1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars."
[hearing that 'Sean Astin' (qv) wanted to correct rumors that his character Sam Gamgee had a homosexual love for Frodo:] "Yeah, we've never had that perspective on the relationship, but there is a real bond and a real closeness. Which was easy for Sean and I because we became so close making the film. So it's a natural thing to display and to show and I think it comes across without any real effort ... Frodo really starts to fail physically and emotionally and mentally, so Sam is there to kind of pick up the pieces and show his affection for Frodo and really almost carry him to the end. So that relationship is really important in this film, particularly. ... I think it's really refreshing and nice. I'm really close with my friends and affectionate, and I don't think that there is anything suspicious about that, necessarily. So it's good to show it and have it be an unisexual thing, definitely." [The Toronto Star, December 12, 2003]
Elijah has an older brother Zachariah (b. 1974) who works in video games and a younger sister 'Hannah Wood (I)' (qv) (born 7th October 1983).
He heard about the Lord of the Rings trilogy while filming _The Faculty (1998)_ (qv). Immediately, he sensed that this was the chance of a lifetime. Director 'George Huang' (qv), a personal friend of Wood's, filmed his audition tape for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. He shot the scene from different angles which were cut together for the video. They sent the video off to New Zealand for director 'Peter Jackson (I)' (qv) and a few months later, he got the part.
Suffered acute appendicitis and was briefly hospitalized [August 2003]
Served as the Bacchus of the 2004 Mardi Gras Parade, and returned the next year.