Elijah Wood

Elijah Jordan Wood (born 28 January, 1981 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa) is a U.S. actor who played Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit film series. He is the middle of three children born to Warren and Debbie Wood, who nicknamed Elijah "Spark Plug" because he was a maniacally energetic child. He has a brother Zack, a video game producer and seven years his senior, as well as a younger sister Hannah, a poet and actress who has had small roles in a number of his films. He has been a professional actor since the age of nine.

Trivia

While filming The Faculty, Wood learned that casting had begun for New Zealand director Peter Jackson’s epic production of J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic novel trilogy The Lord of the Rings. Wood immediately had his friend, director George Huang, film an audition tape of him running in the fields with crudely made Hobbit feet, and sent the tape to Jackson. Despite Jackson’s initial assertion that all of the Hobbit characters would be played by British actors, he was immediately won over by Wood’s audition. Wood was cast in the lead role of Tolkien’s diminutive hero, Frodo Baggins. Jackson later said he could not possibly imagine another actor in the world who would be better suited to play Frodo.

The cast of the Rings movies was nominated for Best Ensemble Acting at the Screen Actors Guild Awards for three years in a row. They finally won in 2003, for the third film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. For his performance as Frodo Baggins, Elijah Wood was nominated by the MTV Movie Awards and for the final installment, as well as being nominated for a British Academy Award for Best Actor.

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