Acting
Elijah Wood
EN, NO, ES, SV cinema · 139 credits
Born
28 January 1981 (age 45)
Birthplace
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Also known as Elijah Jordan Wood · Lij
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.
Known for
Filmography
L.A. Rush
Actor
The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
as Frodo Baggins
Ready or Not: Here I Come
as The Lawyer
The Monkey
as Ted
The Toxic Avenger Unrated
as Fritz Garbinger, his Creepy Brother
Rabbit Trap
Producer
Ebony & Ivory
Executive Producer
Dawning
Executive Producer
Bookworm
as Strawn Wise, Executive Producer
Tony Pizzas Tony Pizzas
as Elijah Wood
Welcome Space Brothers
Executive Producer
No Man of God
as Bill Hagmaier, Producer
Solar Noise
as Self (archive footage)
Color Out of Space
Producer
Archenemy
Producer
Come to Daddy
as Norval Greenwood
Daniel Isn't Real
Producer
The Panama Papers
as John Doe (voice)
Mandy
Producer
78/52
as Self
Bitch
Producer
The Trust
as David Waters
The Greasy Strangler
Producer
Henry
Actor
The Last Witch Hunter
as Dolan 37th
Made in Japan
as Self (voice), Executive Producer
The Boy
Producer
Deep Web
Thanks
Open Windows
as Nick Chambers, Executive Producer
Cooties
as Clint, Producer
Set Fire to the Stars
as John M. Brinnin, Co-Producer
Why Horror?
as Animation VO (voice)
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Executive Producer
Pawn Shop Chronicles
as Johnny Shaw
Grand Piano
as Tom Selznick
Setup, Punch
as Reuben Stein
Tome of the Unknown
as Wirt (voice)
Toad Road
Executive Producer
LFO
Executive Producer
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
as Frodo Baggins
Maniac
as Frank Zito
Revenge for Jolly!
as Thomas
The Narrative of Victor Karloch
as William Merriwether
Treasure Island
as Ben Gunn
Fight for Your Right Revisited
as Ad-Rock (B-Boys 1)
Happy Feet Two
as Mumble (voice)
Boobie
as James
The Death and Return of Superman
as Cyborg Superman / Hank Henshaw
The Romantics
as Chip
WWII in HD: The Air War
as Andy Rooney (voice)
9
as #9 (voice)
Beyond All Boundaries
as Corp. Wilfred Hanson / Capt. John C. Chapin
The Oxford Murders
as Martin
Day Zero
as Aaron Feller
Paris Je T'aime
as Le garçon (Quartier de la Madeleine)
Bobby
as William Avary
Happy Feet
as Mumble (voice)
Sin City
as Kevin
Everything Is Illuminated
as Jonathan Safran Foer
Green Street Hooligans
as Matt Buckner
I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust
as Klaus Langer / Dawid Rubinowicz (voice)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
as The Guy
The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
as Tom Thumb (voice)
The Long and Short of It
First Assistant Director
The Cranberries - Stars: The Best Of Videos 1992-2002
as Boy with Hearphones (segment "Ridiculous Thoughts")
Ash Wednesday
as Sean Sullivan
Try Seventeen
as Jones
The Fellowship of the Ring: Storyboards and Pre-Viz: Making Words into Images
as Self
Chain of Fools
as Mikey
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
as Barney Snow
Black and White
as Wren
Deep Impact
as Leo Biederman
The Faculty
as Casey
Oliver Twist
as The Artful Dodger
The Ice Storm
as Mikey Carver
Flipper
as Sandy Ricks
North
as North
The War
as Stu Simmons
The Good Son
as Mark Evans
The Adventures of Huck Finn
as Huck Finn
Forever Young
as Nat Cooper
Radio Flyer
as Mike
The Witness
1992
The Witness
as Little Boy
Day-O
as Day-O
Paradise
as Willard Young
Avalon
as Michael Kaye
Internal Affairs
as Sean
Back to the Future Part II
as Video Game Boy