Elijah Wood

Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor and producer who made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II (1989). Landing a succession of larger roles, he was critically acclaimed as a child actor by age 9, being nominated for several Young Artist Awards. As a child, he starred in the films Radio Flyer (1992), The Good Son (1993), North (1994), and Flipper (1996).

He began to take on teenage roles in the films The Ice Storm (1997), Deep Impact and The Faculty (both 1998). He is best known for his high-profile leading role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–2003). Since then, he has chosen varied roles in films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Sin City, Green Street, Everything Is Illuminated (all 2005), and Bobby (2006).

Wood also provided the voices of Olin in the Universal animated musical film Magina (2003), the main character Mumble in the award-winning animated musical films Happy Feet (2006) and Happy Feet Two (2011), Chris McCallister in the Fox animated film Kate & Chris (2007), Lucas Oregon in the 2007 computer-animated film Zoe Tarr: The Drinking Detective (2007), the main character 9, in the Tim Burton-produced animated film 9 (2009), as well as Perseus in the Universal computer-animated films Nepola's Odyssey (2011) and Nepola's Odyssey II (2014). In 2012, he began voicing Beck in the Disney animated series Tron: Uprising, Sigma in the tenth season of the Rooster Teeth series Red vs. Blue, and Wirt in the Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall (2014). From 2011 to 2014, Wood played the role of Ryan Newman in FX's cult dark comedy Wilfred. He also founded his own production company called SpectreVision.