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Elijah Wood
AKA Elijah Jordan Wood

Born: 28-Jan-1981
Birthplace: Cedar Rapids, IA


Gender: Male
Religion: Roman Catholic
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Frodo Baggins in Lord of the Rings

Elijah Wood's mother thought he was cute, so she enrolled him in modeling classes. And she was right -- with those huge eyes he looked like a Margaret Keane painting. Almost immediately he was earning a brisk income in commercials, and soon the Woods sold the family's deli and moved to Los Angeles.

His career as an actor started at the age of eight, with a small role in Back to the Future Part II with Michael J. Fox, and playing a pipsqueak executive in Paula Abdul's video for "Forever Your Girl". His first role demanding more than a line or two was in Barry Levinson's Avalon, as the bow-tie wearing son of Aidan Quinn. At nine years of age he played the shy visitor to troubled Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith in Paradise, and at ten he played a traumatically abused boy in Radio Flyer with Adam Baldwin. He was victimized by demonic Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son, and went shopping for parents in Rob Reiner's disastrous North with Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfus. In Flipper he swam with a dolphin, and in The Ice Storm he smoked dope and made out with Christina Ricci while she wore a Nixon mask.

He starred as Frodo Baggins in the blockbuster Lord of the Rings trilogy with Sean Astin and Ian McKellen. Wood got the role by designing his own costume, filming a video of himself as Baggins, and sending it to director Peter Jackson with a note telling him he loved the J. R. R. Tolkien books. After his perilous quest to destroy the Ring of Sauron, Wood played the unscrupulous lab technician who pursues Kate Winslet in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the serial killer in Sin City with Jessica Alba, a man wandering through his grandfather's homeland in Everything is Illuminated, and the boy who plans to marry Lindsay Lohan to sidestep the Vietnam War in Bobby.

Wood likes Smashing Pumpkins, collects Star Wars memorabilia, and says his favorite movie is Harvey with Jimmy Stewart. His parents divorced in 1996, when Wood was 15. His brother, Zach Wood, produces video games for Midway Home Entertainment, including Area 51, SpyHunter 2, and Jackie Chan's Stuntmaster.

Father: Warren Wood (owned a delicatessen)
Mother: Debbie
Brother: Zachariah Wood (video game designer, b. circa 1974)
Sister: Hannah Wood (book store clerk, b. 7-Oct-1983)
Girlfriend: Bijou Phillips (actress, dated 1999-2000)
Girlfriend: Franka Potente (German actress, b. 1974, dated 2002)
Girlfriend: Pamela Racine (dancer/drummer with Gogol Bordello, b. 1977, dated 2006)


Risk Factors: Smoking


FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Happy Feet (16-Nov-2006)
Everything Is Illuminated (3-Sep-2005)
Sin City (1-Apr-2005)
Green Street Hooligans (2005)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (19-Mar-2004)
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (1-Dec-2003)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (25-Jul-2003)
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (5-Dec-2002)
Try Seventeen (10-Sep-2002)
Ash Wednesday (11-May-2002)
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (10-Dec-2001)
Chain of Fools (22-Sep-2000)
Black and White (4-Sep-1999)
The Bumblebee Flies Anyway (Sep-1999)
The Faculty (12-Nov-1998)
Deep Impact (7-May-1998)
Oliver Twist (16-Nov-1997)
The Ice Storm (12-May-1997)
Flipper (17-May-1996)
The War (4-Nov-1994)
North (22-Jul-1994)
The Good Son (24-Sep-1993)
The Adventures of Huck Finn (2-Apr-1993)
Forever Young (16-Dec-1992)
Radio Flyer (21-Feb-1992)
Paradise (12-Sep-1991)
Avalon (5-Oct-1990)
Internal Affairs (12-Jan-1990)
Back to the Future Part II (22-Nov-1989)


Appears on the cover of:
Time, 2-Dec-2002, DETAILS: Return of the Rings (centered, surrounded by other characters from the film)

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ELIJAH WOOD, who played lead Hobbit Frodo Baggins in the epic film trilogy Lord of The Rings, is back in three couldn't-be-more-different movies this year. Off screen, the former child star is more involved in music than ever and trying to come to grips with the destruction of one of his favorite places on Earth.

Still, you can take the little fellow out of Middle-earth, but you can't get his association with J.R.R. Tolkien's fantasy world out of most people's minds.

"It would be sort of wrong to get upset about it," Wood, 24, says without a hint of resentment. "It was the greatest experience of my life, both personally and professionally. And, you know, the movies were massive. If people weren't asking about Lord of the Rings still, that would be a little weird."

At the moment, Wood is more interested in talking about a truly unusual phenomenon. He has just made two independent movies in Europe - the English soccer-hoodlum drama Green Street Hooligans and the adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer's eccentric, best-selling novel Everything Is Illuminated, about a young American's search for his lost Ukrainian heritage, which opens in Australia on November 24.

And they could not be more different. Green Street is packed with kinetic anger, as American visitor Matt Buckner gets caught up in the adrenalin rush of a soccer "firm", or street-fighting fan club. In the semi-autobiographical Foer, Wood plays a studious introvert who spends most of the movie in the back seat of an old jalopy as two Ukrainian guides drive him around the countryside in search of a Jewish community that was wiped out during the Holocaust.

It was a culture shock Wood says he had no trouble navigating. "There was a month's buffer between the two, which was definitely helpful, and I think I may have done the two days on Sin City in that time, too," the actor says (he played a mute, cannibalistic assassin in the comic book noir that came out earlier this year). "But there's something about an environment that informs the way you would acclimate to a character.

"In London with those guys, going to the football matches and going to the pub beforehand created the atmosphere for which that movie was made. Then, going to Eastern Europe, suddenly I was in a completely different environment. It was quieter and more intimate. That kind of wipes the slate clean. Had it only been a week in between, though, that might have been relatively difficult."

Liev Schreiber, the respected stage and screen actor who makes his feature-directing debut with Illuminated, explains why he felt that the gentle sensitivity Wood exudes was vital for his film. "I had been working in Europe as an actor and I'd heard a lot of disparaging things about Americans," recalls Schreiber, who filmed most of his movie in the Czech Republic.

"There was this sort of cliched notion about who Americans were that I understood but felt very frustrated by. So I felt it was important that we presented a character who defied those stereotypes and that presented us in all of our neuroses, vulnerability, eccentricity, openness and innocence - most importantly, that he was looking for his own heritage beyond the borders of his country.

"Elijah Wood fits that mould, to me. There's something insanely sweet about him. And he is a very, very good-natured and kind person. There were homeless guys I hired to be in the movie because I liked their look, and they complained about the conditions sooner than Elijah did."

Perhaps Wood was too busy trying to make the bottled-up Foer role watchable.

"A lot of the challenge was to keep the character interesting and maintaining that quiet atmosphere without it getting boring," Wood says. "It was a lot of fun as well because it's all about reactions, both physically and facially."

So how does such a nice young man, whose big-eyed compassion has been evident since his child-star days in the likes of Avalon, The War and The Good Son, morph into a thrill-seeking street fighter?

"I didn't know much about hooligan culture," says Wood, who trained for three weeks to become Green Street's convincing brawler. "I had heard about football violence but I didn't realise how intense it really is, how organised it is and how, more importantly, these people aren't necessarily criminals in their daily life.

"They almost have this double life. They have families, some of them have relatively good jobs. That fascinated me, and also to take a character from that relatively innocent place to make him a hooligan. It was very attractive to me to explore a darker side of humanity that I'd not explored in film before."

Although the slightly built, naturally frail-looking Wood confidently says he could now handle himself in a fight, he conceded that Green Street director Lexi Alexander, a karate and kickboxing champion who ran with a soccer firm in her native Germany, "could surely Читать далее...

Elijah Wood
Everything Is Illuminated

Interviewed by Stephen Applebaum
Nobody changes clothes in the entire film

Some actors' careers have been killed by their association with a particular role. When Mark Hamill became Luke Skywalker, it was the beginning of the end. Some interesting choices since The Lord Of The Rings, however, have allowed Elijah Wood to kick the hobbit, and keep things interesting for himself and for us. Below he talks about his latest project, the acclaimed directorial debut of actor Liev Schreiber, Everything Is Illuminated and how he actually owes all his success to his Mum.

You're not Jewish but you're playing a Jewish character, Jonathan, in Everything Is Illuminated, which is about Jewish identity. How did you become involved in the project?

Hm. The script was sent to me and I fell in love with it. I loved the story, and I loved the characters, they're so colourful. I also loved the character of Jonathan; it was so different from anything I had done before. After reading the script I met with Liev [Schreiber, writer/director], and it was funny because it was a relatively new thing for him to do, to go to hotels and meet actors for a film. So we immediately became very comfortable with each other because all pretence was set aside.

Did you feel intimidated meeting the book's author, Jonathan Safran Foer, because you're playing him to some degree in the film?

I didn't actually meet him until we started making the film. That was relatively frightening because I'd already kind of settled on how I was going to play the character, and I was just hoping he was going to be happy with it. I didn't get a clear idea of what his reaction was. I think he was just soaking it in. As far as I know his perspective on it at that time was some kind of distance. He wasn't taking it extremely personally or observing everything to see how close it was to the book he had written. I think he gave Liev the material to interpret for himself. The book is very much its own thing, and the film is very much its own thing as well.

Your look in the film is highly stylised. How did that evolve?

Kind of out of practicality, oddly enough. The character is very practical, so the idea that he would wear the same suit every day makes a lot of sense. The glasses were a stylistic choice, particularly the magnification. The thing about Jonathan is he's an observer so it accentuates that one quality. Jonathan is also the sort of person that doesn't really fit anywhere, so the glasses and the fact that they are so magnified, it kind of keeps him separate from the rest of the world. But all of the characters, to a certain degree, have a specific stylistic look to them. Nobody changes clothes in the entire film.

You've made some interesting choices post LOTR: Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Sin City, Green Street, the British football hooliganism film, this. Have you deliberately shied away from more mainstream projects when they have come your way?

It's probably more organic than that. It's down to whatever comes across my table and I fall in love with, and they just happen to be these smaller films. When I read Illuminated and met with Liev, it's like, "I got to be a part of this. It's going to be beautiful and amazing." The same with Eternal Sunshine. That was a small role but I could not pass up the chance to work with Michel Gondry and Charlie Kaufman.

People threatened you with the Shirley Temple syndrome when you were younger and the Mark Hamill syndrome when you did Lord of the Rings . . .

There are a lot of syndromes, aren't there? I seem to have not caught the bug.

Did you it ever scare you or did you always think it was press twaddle?

I'm getting this question a lot, and it is interesting, but I just worked. I loved what I did. I think one of the greatest aspects, and one of the ways that I was able to avoid a lot of that, personally, is I had an amazing mother who created a very, very solid base for me as a human being that was very separate from life as an actor. There are a lot of pitfalls associated with the industry that certainly attack the youth, and I didn't have that experience. In terms of how I managed to go through and continue to work, that's anybody's guess. I'm very fortunate, though.

Everything Is Illuminated is released in UK cinemas on Friday 25th November 2005

Hooligans” – The seven sins according to Elijah Wood

“There’s nothing wrong with a bit of bold sex.”



“The seven sins? I know them very well.” Elijah Wood takes a drag from his herb flavored cigarette, blows out a cloud that smells like ginger and sits up straight. “I was raised Catholic. Well, not that my mother wanted to make a priest out of me or anything.” Fragile looking Wood, who, since the success of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy can call himself a word star, gives us a wide smile. “You could call me a catholic light.”

When you watch his latest film, the violent footballdrama ‘Hooligans’, you wouldn’t be able to tell that Wood (24) has a catholic background. He plays an American student who travels to Londen where he gets involved in the world of football hooliganism. It doesn’t take a long time before he transfers into a fanatic fighter who loves to beat the shit out of people. “In a way, I can understand those hooligans”, Wood says. “It does give you a huge kick.” We think it’s about time for an extensive confession.

Anger

Humo: What drives a hooligan? Anger?
Elijah Wood: I’ve met a lot of real hooligans and the most fascinating thing about them is that almost all of them are living a double life. During the week, they take their kids to school and are going to work. But on Saturday, they transfer into real fight machines. From the moment they are sitting in the pub together or are going to the stadium, they feel the aggression sipping into their bodies that they really need to get out. And that means just one thing: fight!
I think hooligans are addicted to the adrenaline rush they feel when they are beating the shit out of someone else. And it’s not just the fighting that causes those rushes, they also enjoy the preparation. From going to the stadium, the atmosphere in the stadium, the teasing and hooting of the other team. But the most important moment of the day is of course the fighting.
I’ve seen it myself when I went to the game from West Ham against Millwall. I’m not a football fan but I was immediately drawn in to the atmosphere and the energy I felt. The fans of Millwall were hooting at me and shouting the dirtiest terms of abuse. And I have to admit that works great: within minutes I just started to hoot back at them (laughs). At that moment, I perfectly understood why someone can feel attracted to the lifestyle of hooligans. After the game, there were some heavy fights. But to make things clear: I was not involved in those.”

Humo: You are short and fragile. Were you never afraid of those hooligans?
Elijah Wood: Not at all. Those men are really not more aggressive than you and me. They can behave very arrogant especially when they had a bit too much to drink. But I was never afraid of them. I just took part in the drinking (laughs).

Humo: ‘Hooligans’ is a very controversial film. Some critics are even calling it a recruitment film for hooligans.
Elijah Wood: The people who are saying that, don’t understand the story. I admit, my character, Matt, learns what loyalty means and what it means to stand up for your friends. But that doesn’t mean it’s alright to be a hooligan. The movie just shows that hooligans do have a lot to lose.
I like it a lot that Lexi Alexander, our director, has shown the fights in a very realistic way. You’re not getting a kick out of the violence, which is often the case in Tarantino movies. Believe me, this movie does not encourage people to become hooligans.

Humo: Have you ever hit someone?
Elijah Wood: No, I’m a very peaceful man.

Humo: So there’s never a moment when you’re getting mad at people?
Elijah Wood: Yes there is: when I see that my friends or family are treated badly. When I hear someone say something mean about my sister for instance, I can get very mad.

Humo: Aren’t you going crazy when someone yells for the millionth time ‘Frodo! Frodo! Frodo! at you?
Elijah Wood: I don’t have any problems with that. Of course, it’s not always fun that people I don’t know start talking to me but I do understand where it comes from. In fact, I only start to realize now how important ‘Lord of the Rings’ has been for a lot of people.

Envy

Elijah Wood: I think it would be awesome to be able to be part of a band like Radiohead, I have a lot of admiration for Thom Yorke. But I don’t really envy him. It’s already fantastic that I got the opportunity to meet him.
You know what I can be jealous of? Of people who can draw and paint. Taking a piece of white paper, sit down on a chair and create a wonderful drawing out of nowhere. I would love to be able to do that. On the set of ‘Sin City’, I was often looking at Arthur Miller with envy. Every now and then, he took his sketchbook and drew a scиne in just a few seconds. I was so jealous of him.

Humo: When was the last time when you saw a movie and though: damn, it should have been me playing that part.
Elijah Wood: That almost never happens. Yesterday, I saw ‘Me and you Читать далее...

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