Elijah Wood
Born: 1981-01-28 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Known For: Acting
Biography
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.
Filmography
2027
- The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum as Frodo Baggins
2026
- Ready or Not: Here I Come as The Lawyer
2025
- The Monkey as Ted
- I Love LA as Elijah Wood
- The Toxic Avenger Unrated as Fritz Garbinger, his Creepy Brother
- E.B. White's Charlotte's Web as Adult Wilbur (voice)
- Rabbit Trap ... (Producer)
- Ebony & Ivory ... (Executive Producer)
- Dawning ... (Executive Producer)
2024
- Bookworm as Strawn Wise
2023
- I'm a Virgo as Studious Guy
- Welcome Space Brothers ... (Executive Producer)
- The Elephant 6 Recording Co. as Self
- Tony Pizzas Tony Pizzas as Elijah Wood
2022
- The Afterparty as 'Yasper'
2021
- Yellowjackets as Walter
- No Man of God as Bill Hagmaier
- Yellowjackets as Walter Tattersall
2020
- Home Movie: The Princess Bride as Prince Humperdinck
- Reunited Apart as Self
- Color Out of Space ... (Producer)
- Archenemy ... (Producer)
- Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss ... (Producer)
- Solar Noise as Self (archive footage)
2019
- Come to Daddy as Norval Greenwood
- Daniel Isn't Real ... (Producer)
2018
- Summer Camp Island as Saxophone (voice)
- Star Wars Resistance as Jace Rucklin (voice)
- Eli Roth's History of Horror as Self
- Mandy ... (Producer)
- The Panama Papers as John Doe (voice)
2017
- Talking with Chris Hardwick as Self
- I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore as Tony
- Bitch ... (Producer)
- 78/52 as Self
- The Postman Dreams 2
2016
- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency as Todd Brotzman
- Join or Die with Craig Ferguson as Self
- The Trust as David Waters
- The Greasy Strangler ... (Producer)
2015
- The Late Show with Stephen Colbert as Self - Guest
- Hot Ones as Self
- The Last Witch Hunter as Dolan 37th
- Deep Web ... (Thanks)
- The Boy ... (Producer)
- Made in Japan as Self (voice)
- Behind Over the Garden Wall as Self
- Henry
- It's Better in Italian as Self
2014
- The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon as Self
- Late Night with Seth Meyers as Self
- Off Camera with Sam Jones as Self
- Over the Garden Wall as Wirt (voice)
- Cooties as Clint
- A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night ... (Executive Producer)
- Open Windows as Nick Chambers
- Why Horror? as Animation VO (voice)
- Set Fire to the Stars as John M. Brinnin
2013
- Drunk History as Percy Shelley
- Inside Llewyn Davis ... (Thanks)
- Pawn Shop Chronicles as Johnny Shaw
- Grand Piano as Tom Selznick
- Tome of the Unknown as Wirt (voice)
- A Band Called Death as Self
- LFO ... (Executive Producer)
- Maniac: The Making of Documentary as Self
- This Must Be the Only Fantasy as Trevor
- Mundos virtuales
- Toad Road ... (Executive Producer)
- Setup, Punch as Reuben Stein
- Peter Panzerfaust as Peter
2012
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Frodo Baggins
- TRON: Uprising as Beck
- Maniac as Frank Zito
- Treasure Island as Ben Gunn
- Celeste & Jesse Forever as Scott
- Revenge for Jolly! as Thomas
- The Narrative of Victor Karloch as William Merriwether
- Double Fine Adventure as Himself
- The Ballad Of Danko Jones as Mouse
2011
- Wilfred as Ryan Newman
- Happy Feet Two as Mumble (voice)
- Fight for Your Right Revisited as Ad-Rock (B-Boys 1)
- Nightmare Factory as Self
- The Death and Return of Superman as Cyborg Superman/Hank Henshaw
- Boobie as James
2010
- Conan as Self
- The Romantics as Chip
- WWII in HD: The Air War as Andy Rooney (voice)
- The Heart is a Drum Machine as Self
2009
- Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest
- 9 as #9 (voice)
- The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- Glenn Martin, DDS as Chester Chislehurst
- Beyond All Boundaries as Corp. Wilfred Hanson / Capt. John C. Chapin
2008
- The Oxford Murders as Martin
- Operation Filmmaker as Self
2007
- The Graham Norton Show as Self
- Yo Gabba Gabba!
- Day Zero as Aaron Feller
- Weathering the Storm: The Making of The Ice Storm as Self
2006
- Happy Feet as Mumble (voice)
- Paris Je T'aime as Le garçon (Quartier de la Madeleine)
- Bobby as William Avary
- Freak Show as Freak Mart Squirrel
2005
- American Dad! as Ethan (voice)
- The Colbert Report
- Sin City as Kevin
- Made in Hollywood as Self
- Green Street Hooligans as Matt Buckner
- Everything Is Illuminated as Jonathan Safran Foer
- Ringers: Lord of the Fans as Self
- Jack Osbourne: Adrenaline Junkie
- I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust as Klaus Langer / Dawid Rubinowicz (voice)
- The Friday Night Project as Self - Host
2004
2003
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Frodo
- Jimmy Kimmel Live! as Self
- Red vs. Blue as Sigma
- Punk'd as Self
- Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as The Guy
- The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina as Tom Thumb (voice)
- The Making of 'The Long and Short of It' as Self
- Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King as Self
- The Making of 'The Two Towers'
- The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision as Self
- The Long and Short of It ... (First Assistant Director)
- From Book to Script: Finding the Story as Self
2002
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Frodo
- The Osbournes as Self
- Try Seventeen as Jones
- The Making of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' as Self
- Ash Wednesday as Sean Sullivan
- The Cranberries - Stars: The Best Videos 1992-2002 as Boy with Hearphones (segment "Ridiculous Thoughts")
- A Day in the Life of a Hobbit as Self
2001
2000
- The Bumblebee Flies Anyway as Barney Snow
1999
- Family Guy as Elijah Wood (voice)
- Black and White as Wren
1998
- The Faculty as Casey Connor
- TRL
- Deep Impact as Leo Biederman
1997
- King of the Hill as Jason (voice)
- Taff as self
- The Wonderful World of Disney as The Artful Dodger
- The Ice Storm as Mikey Carver
- Oliver Twist as The Artful Dodger
1996
- The Daily Show as Self
- Adventures from the Book of Virtues as Icarus (voice)
- Flipper as Sandy Ricks
1994
- Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin as self
- The War as Stu Simmons
- North as North
1993
- Frasier as Ethan (voice)
- Late Show with David Letterman as Self - Guest
- Homicide: Life on the Street as McPhee Broadman
- Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- The Good Son as Mark Evans
- The Adventures of Huck Finn as Huck Finn
1992
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- Forever Young as Nat Cooper
- Radio Flyer as Mike
- The Witness as Little Boy
- Day-O as Day-O
1991
- Paradise as Willard Young
1990
- Internal Affairs as Sean Stretch
- Avalon as Michael Kaye
- Child in the Night as Luke
1989
- Back to the Future Part II as Video Game Boy
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Self - Host
1953
- The Oscars as Self