Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor and producer. He rose to international fame for his portrayal of Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012).
Wood made his film debut with a small part in Back to the Future Part II (1989). He went on to achieve recognition as a child actor with multiple roles such as Avalon (1990) and The Good Son (1993). As a teenager, he starred in several films including North (1994), Flipper (1996), and The Ice Storm (1997). Following the success of The Lord of the Rings, Wood has appeared in a wide range of films, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Paris, je t'aime (2006), and I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017).
Wood's voice roles include Mumble in the Happy Feet film franchise (2006–2011), the title protagonist in 9 (2009), Spyro the Dragon in the Legend of Spyro video game trilogy (2006–2008), Beck on Disney XD's Tron: Uprising (2012–2013), Sigma in Season 10 of Red vs. Blue, and Wirt in the Cartoon Network miniseries Over the Garden Wall (2014). He played Ryan Newman on the FX dark comedy series Wilfred (2011–2014), for which he received a Satellite Award nomination for Best Actor, and Todd Brotzman in the BBC America series Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016–2017).
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 film production company for horror films, The Woodshed, renamed SpectreVision in 2013. Wood is a disc jockey, and has toured globally with his friend Zach Cowie as the duo Wooden Wisdom.
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Budget367M
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Primarily2026 Ready or Not: Here I Come
2025 Rabbit Trap Producer
2025 The Toxic Avenger Unrated as Fritz Garbinger
2025 Ebony & Ivory Executive Producer
2025 The Land of Nod Producer
2025 L.A. Rush
2025 The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes Producer
2025 The Monkey as Ted
2024 Bookworm as Strawn Wise Executive Producer
2023 Welcome Space Brothers Executive Producer
2023 Tony Pizzas Tony Pizzas as Elijah Wood
2023 The Elephant 6 Recording Co. as Self
2021 No Man of God as Bill Hagmaier Producer
2020 Archenemy Producer
2020 Solar Noise as Self (archive footage)
2020 Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss Producer
2020 Color Out of Space Producer
2019 Daniel Isn't Real Producer
2019 Come to Daddy as Norval Greenwood
2018 The Panama Papers as John Doe (voice)
2018 Mandy Producer
2017 The Postman Dreams 2
2017 78/52 as Self
2017 Bitch Producer
2017 I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore as Tony
2016 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency as Todd Brotzman
2016 The Greasy Strangler Producer
2016 The Trust as David Waters
2015 The Last Witch Hunter as Dolan 37th
2015 The Boy Producer
2015 Henry
2015 Behind Over the Garden Wall as Self
2015 Made in Japan as Self (voice) Executive Producer
2015 Deep Web Thanks
2014 A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night Executive Producer
2014 Set Fire to the Stars as John M. Brinnin Co-Producer
2014 Cooties as Clint Producer
2014 Why Horror? as Animation VO (voice)
2014 Open Windows as Nick Chambers Executive Producer
2013 This Must Be the Only Fantasy as Trevor
2013 Mundos virtuales
2013 Toad Road Executive Producer
2013 Tome of the Unknown as Wirt (voice)
2013 Maniac: The Making of Documentary as Self
2013 Grand Piano as Tom Selznick
2013 LFO Executive Producer
2013 Pawn Shop Chronicles as Johnny Shaw
2013 A Band Called Death as Self
2013 Setup, Punch as Reuben Stein
2012 Maniac as Frank
2012 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey as Frodo Baggins
2012 The Ballad Of Danko Jones as Mouse
2012 The Narrative of Victor Karloch as William Merriwether
2012 Celeste & Jesse Forever as Scott
2012 Revenge for Jolly! as Thomas
2011 Happy Feet Two as Mumble (voice)
2011 Nightmare Factory as Self
2011 Fight for Your Right Revisited as Ad-Rock (B-Boys 1)
2011 Boobie as James
2010 WWII in HD: The Air War as Andy Rooney (voice)
2010 The Romantics as Chip
2010 The Heart is a Drum Machine as Self
2009 Beyond All Boundaries as Corp. Wilfred Hanson / Capt. John C. Chapin
2009 9 as #9 (voice)
2008 Operation Filmmaker as Self
2008 The Oxford Murders as Martin
2007 Day Zero as Aaron Feller
2006 Happy Feet as Mumble (voice)
2006 Bobby as William Avary
2006 Paris Je T'aime as Le garçon (Quartier de la Madeleine)
2005 Green Street Hooligans as Matt Buckner
2005 Everything Is Illuminated as Jonathan Safran Foer
2005 I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust as Klaus Langer / Dawid Rubinowicz (voice)
2005 Sin City as Kevin
2005 Ringers: Lord of the Fans as Self
2004 A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King' as Self
2004 Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!! as Self
2004 The Making of the Return of the King as Self
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind as Patrick
2003 The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision as Self
2003 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King as Frodo
2003 Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King as Self
2003 The Making of 'The Long and Short of It' as Self
2003 The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina as Tom Thumb (voice)
2003 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over as The Guy
2003 The Making of The Two Towers
2003 Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories as Self
2003 The Long and Short of It First Assistant Director
2002 The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers as Frodo
2002 The Cranberries - Stars: The Best Videos 1992-2002 as Boy with Hearphones (segment "Ridiculous Thoughts")
2002 Ash Wednesday as Sean Sullivan
2002 Try Seventeen as Jones
2002 The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring as Self
2001 Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring as Self
2001 The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring as Frodo
2001 A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings' as Self
2001 Quest for the Ring as Self
2001 Chain of Fools as Mikey
2000 The Bumblebee Flies Anyway as Barney Snow
1999 Black and White as Wren
1998 The Faculty as Casey Connor
1998 Deep Impact as Leo Biederman
1997 The Ice Storm as Mikey Carver
1997 Oliver Twist as The Artful Dodger
1996 Flipper as Sandy Ricks
1994 The War as Stu Simmons
1994 North as North
1993 The Good Son as Mark Evans
1993 The Adventures of Huck Finn as Huck Finn
1992 Forever Young as Nat Cooper
1992 Day-O as Day-O
1992 Radio Flyer as Mike
1992 The Witness as Little Boy
1991 Paradise as Willard Young
1990 Avalon as Michael Kaye
1990 Child in the Night as Luke
1990 Internal Affairs as Sean Stretch
1989 Back to the Future Part II as Video Game Boy
7.68 Unknown 1
7.38 War 3
6.92 Documentary 25
6.83 Adventure 14
6.78 Fantasy 9
6.73 Action 17
6.49 Romance 8
6.49 Music 6
6.40 Science Fiction 13
6.26 Crime 13
6.22 Comedy 26
6.22 Animation 6
6.15 Drama 38
6.08 History 4
6.00 TV Movie 7
5.93 Horror 16
5.89 Mystery 6
5.80 Thriller 19
5.71 Family 10