Elijah Wood

Elijah Voodoo's popularity earned her a role in the fantasy trilogy The Lord of the Rings. After the role of hobbit Frodo, the actor began to receive regular offers about filming. But he chooses projects not on the financial, but on the creative principle, and such in franchises a little. That's why Wood is increasingly accepting invitations to independent cinema.

Elijah Wood was born on January 28, 1981, in Iowa. He's the second child in the family. His older brother and younger sister Hannah are also engaged in acting.

As a child, Wood showed musical talent: the boy sang in the local choir, and from the age of 8 took part in theatrical productions. The mother tried to give her children a good upbringing and education. The restless Elijah she jokingly called "little monkey."

In 1988, when Voodoo was barely 7 years old, his mother brought him to the casting in a modeling agency. Six months later, Elijah was already at a conference of models and young talents in Los Angeles.

Cute boy noticed and began to offer shooting in advertising and small roles in movies. The actor says that entering the adult world was difficult for him. His fragile psyche had to face the cruelty of show business more than once. He was able to pass this test thanks to the support of his mother and sister.

Elijah Wood began with episodes and in a few years grew to serious work. The debut was the famous fantastic comedy "Back to the Future - 2" about the time-shifting heroes Christopher Lloyd and Michael J. Fox. In 1991, when he was 10 years old, Elijah played one of the main roles in the film "Paradise" - the boy who reunited the family. Critics enthusiastically praised Wood's performance, calling him the best actor in the film.

In 1993, Elijah starred in the film "The Good Son" with Macaulay Kalkin, but the film was not particularly successful among the audience. Next up was "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," a character played by Wood that was very different from his previous roles. In 1994, the drama "War" was released, in which the actor played in pairs with Kevin Costner. Again, critics did not skimp on praise. In the same year, Elijah Wood starred in the family comedy "North". Together with Wood in the film starred young Scarlett Johansson.

The actor's iconic year was 1999. After playing Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings, Wood woke up famous and forever inscribed himself in the history of world cinema. Elijah accidentally found out about the upcoming filming and persuaded the director to do a trial with him. The film was shot in New York for quite a long time - the actor had to change his place of residence. The guy did a great job with the game, and now it's hard to imagine someone else in the role of a little hobbit.

In addition to expressive eyes and boyish face, to pass the casting on the brave hobbit Elijah Voodoo helped and a small height (168 cm). The trilogy stars Ian McKellen, Viggo Mortensen, Sean Austin, Cate Blanchett, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, John Rhys-Davis, Orlando Bloom and Liv Tyler.

At the end of filming, Peter Jackson gave the same ring to the young actor. But Wood put the souvenir away and forgot where it was. Years later, the young man remarked that he had no idea that he would be sold as a toy, but agreed to respond to Frodo's name.

After "The Lord of the Rings", Elijah starred in the Oscar-winning drama "Eternal Sunshine of the Pure Mind", the 3rd part of the adventure film "Children of Spies", noir crime thriller "Sin City", played the main role in the crime drama "Hooligans of the Green Street" about groups of football fans. On the last work Wood said:

In 2005, Elijah Voodoo took the lead role in the adventure tragicomedy "Light Around" (in another translation "And everything is illuminated"), based on the eponymous biographical novel by the American writer Jonathan Safran Foer. Elijah plays a young Jew who is looking for a woman who saved his grandfather's family during World War II. The painting has an unexpected musical background - songs of the Leningrad group.

In the crime thriller "Murders in Oxford" Wood appeared as a student who revealed what he believed to be a chain of crimes committed by a teacher. In the psychological horror film "Maniac" Elijah's character, on the contrary, a serial killer, collecting the scalps of victims.

In the series in the genre of black comedy "Wilfred" the actor played a guy-loser, whether with signs of autism, or with post-traumatic syndrome. The main character instead of a neighbor's dog sees a man dressed in a suit. This role was taken by the creator of the television series Jason Gann.

In 2012, Elijah returned to his celebrated role as a hobbit in the prequel "The Lord of the Rings" - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." The picture also won many awards and nominations, but unlike the 1st part received awards only in technical categories. However, the creators did not have to complain about the rolling success - 4th place in the list of the highest-grossing films of the year.

Thriller "Open Windows", filmed not yet the most common method of screencasting - the producer's debut of the actor. In the project Elijah played the main role, the leading female character was represented by former star Sasha Gray. The film tells the story of how a dinner of a popular actress with a fan turns into a quest to save the life of a girl.

In the detective film "The Final" we are talking about the confrontation of a talented pianist and a maniac, threatening the family of the musician with murder, if he fakes during the performance. The film stars Elijah Wood and John Cusack.

In 2014, the actor starred in the biographical drama "Lighting Stars" about the British poet and publicist Thomas Dylan. Wood was reincarnated as a young American writer, who invited a colleague to New York to give lectures and literary meetings, not realizing that he was making a mistake. Thomas turns out to be an absurd and selfish person who does not want to make contact.

Another production work by Elijah - a vampire horror film "Girl returns home one night", shot in Farsi.

In the same year, he starred and produced the sci-fi comedy "Kutis" about a zombie virus infiltrated a private school. In addition, Elijah appeared in minor roles in "Treasure Island" (2012), "Chronicles of the pawnshop" (2013), "The Last Witch Hunter" (2015), voiced cartoon characters. In 2014, Wood tried on Frodo's image again in the epic fantasy "The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies."

In 2016, the actor appeared as Edda in the film "My Angel Black Wings", played a corrupt policeman, who together with his partner stole money from a cache in the department of evidence and thus endangered his own life, in a crime drama with elements of the thriller "Trust."

In October 2016, the American TV audience, and in December - and the international audience became available series "Holistic Detective Agency Dirk Gently", in which Elijah Wood played the main role of the loser and cheater Todd Brotzman, forced partner of the detective. Another main character - naive and optimistic detective Dirk Gently, whose name appears in the name. The role of the detective was played by British actor Samuel Barnett.

Dirk Gently believes in the interconnectedness of things and phenomena in the universe, and the series is filled with both classic detective moves and fantastic elements, which made it popular and singled out from a number of other similar projects.

In January 2017, the premiere of the crime comedy "In this world I no longer feel at home." The film tells the story of how in an unfair world, where hooligans stole spoons from a sensitive girl Ruth, justice can only be done by the victim along with an eccentric neighbor, the only person who agreed to help.

The actor hardly talks about his personal life, so little is known about his girls. Wood does not have an official Instagram account, and photos are posted online by journalists. The absence of a wife and children is not a problem, loneliness is not familiar to him - there are many friends and loving people who are ready to support if necessary.

At the beginning of his career, Elijah had a short affair with actress Bijou Phillips. On the set of "Seventeenth Anniversary" Wood met with actress Franka Potente, they began a relationship. In public they did not appear - only a couple of times together got into the lenses of the paparazzi.

In 2005-2010, the actor met with drummer Pamela Racine from the band Gogol Bordello. But the relationship cracked when Pamela started talking about marriage. Elijah Wood was unprepared for such a move.

Since 2010, the actor has not been seen in the company of women, which gave rise to rumors about his unconventional orientation. Talk that Elijah Wood was gay ended as soon as the star threatened the newspapermen with a court.

In 2018, the media published a photo of the actor accompanied by Mette-Marie Kongsved, producer of the film "In this world I no longer feel at home." And in early 2020 it became known that Metta-Marie gave the actor a son. For many, this news was unexpected, as the couple until the last did not advertise the interesting position of Kongsved.

In his spare time, Elijah sings, plays the piano, collects discs or does charity work - the actor supports a foundation providing art therapy in children's hospitals.

A similar type - dark hair, blond eyes, a shy smile - and participation in fantastic cult movies leads to the fact that Elijah often mistaken for Daniel Radcliffe. In the interview, Wood admitted that he is no longer offended when they are confused, and sometimes even gives autographs instead of colleagues.

In Elijah's filmography, film projects in the traditional sense gave way to virtual. In 2018, Wood merged his own company SpectreVision with video game maker Ubisoft. Given that the actor is a fan of horror, VR technologies will add to his product the effect of presence, will make more intimidating and naturalistic.

The first result of the collaboration is Transference, by the definition of journalists "deviant claustrophobic thriller". In the center of the plot - a doctor who created a simulator of reality, in which his consciousness unites with the consciousness of his wife and son. However, the idea has a negative side: the dark thoughts of each participant distort and change the digital world.

In order to promote future new products to the market, Wood's company in 2019 acquired one of the major Los Angeles empirical marketing agencies. Among Lucey Stepp's clients are Sony, Fox, Red Bull, Universal, Rolls-Royce. The merger of the two firms will allow one side to take advantage of insider relationships in the film industry and gain an understanding of the internal work of the industry. The other side gets creative concepts and access to the biggest brands of entertainment, music and sports.

In April, at the Tribeca Film Festival, Elijah presented the comedy thriller "Go to Daddy", in which in tandem with Stephen McHattie played the main role.

1989 - "Back to the Future 2"

1992 - "Eternally Young"

1994 - "War"

1998 - "Clash with the Abyss"

2001 - "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring"

2002 - The Lord of the Rings: Two Fortress

2003 - The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2004 - "Eternal Sunshine of the Pure Mind"

2006 - "Paris, I Love You"

2008 - "Murders at Oxford"

2012 - "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey"

2014 - "Open Windows"

2017 - "In this world, I no longer feel at home"

2019 - "Go to Daddy"

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