
Elijah Wood
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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.
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What is the best Elijah Wood movie?
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is currently the highest-ranked Elijah Wood movie on Movie Rankings based on aggregate head-to-head results from the community.
How many Elijah Wood movies are ranked here?
This page currently tracks 5 ranked credits connected to Elijah Wood.
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