Elijah Wood 1981 44

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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2026 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

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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