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Elijah Wood "Elijah Wood in Wellington, New Zealand for the 2003 world premiere of The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King." (born January 28, 1981 in Cedar Rapids, IowaElijah Wood is a U.S. actor of English, Irish, German and Polish descent. He is the middle of three children born to Warren and Debbie Wood, who nicknamed Elijah "Spark Plug" because he was a manically energetic child. He has a brother Zack, a video game producer and seven years his senior, as well as a younger by three years sister Hannah, a poet and actress who has had small roles in a number of his films.

A professional actor since the age of nine, Wood is best known for the role of Frodo Baggins in the in 1989, Wood landed a succession of subsequent larger roles and became a critically acclaimed child actor. His performance in gained him a nomination by the YoungStar Awards (for which he was nominated five times and won once), and Roger Ebert said in his review of the film that "Elijah Wood has emerged, I believe, as the most talented actor in his age group in Hollywood history."

His role as Frodo in made him a star, but he has thus far resisted typecasting by recently choosing less sympathetic roles, such as a stalker in .

Wood recently won the role of a young Iggy Pop in a yet-to-be-filmed biographical account of the rock-star.

He recently started his own record label, called Simian Records. Their website can be found here.

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Wood is a huge music buff who claims to own something in the range of 3,000 CD's, and cites his favourite band as the Smashing Pumpkins. [1]

He dated German actress Franka Potente but the relationship ended late in 2002. Wood blamed the separation on age difference and distance, but still wears a ring Potente gave him which bears a Hebrew inion meaning "if not now, when?". During a recent interview with Conan O'Brien, he laughed off rumors that he is gay, even recommending one website which makes such claims, calling it "hilarious". He is currently dating Pam Racine, a bandmate of actor. She rarely appears with him in public and maintains a low-profile, but friends say the couple is almost inseparable.sup

Wood was raised as a Catholic, but now calls himself simply "spiritual", although he claims to still pray every night. He also signs his autographs with a "God Bless" sup he learned that casting had begun for New Zealand director Peter Jackson's epic production of J.R.R. Tolkien's classic novel trilogy . 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 and the American 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 Frodo.(Sibley 2001:30)

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 . For his performance as Frodo Baggins, Elijah Wood was nominated by the MTV Movie Awards.

In an interview about his latest film , director Liev Schreiber commented that his leading man Elijah Wood has a "generosity of spirit" and a "sincere goodness as a human being".[2]

His uncle is Turk E. Krause from the band Molly Nova and the Hawk.sup