Elijah Jordan Wood (born January 28, 1981) is an American actor and producer. A prominent child actor of the 1990s and a prolific figure in major studio features during the 2000s, he has received various accolades including two Saturn Awards, an Actor Award, a Critics' Choice Award and an Empire Award in addition to a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award. Wood made his film debut with a minor part in Back to the Future Part II (1989) at age eight and gained recognition in the early 1990s as a child actor with roles such as Avalon (1990), Forever Young (1992), The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993), and The Good Son (1993). As a teenager, he starred in the films North (1994), The War (1994), Flipper (1996), The Ice Storm (1997), Deep Impact (1998), and The Faculty (1998). Wood achieved international recognition in the early 2000s for playing Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003), based on the classic fantasy novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien. As an adult, Wood has appeared in a wide range of films, including Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Sin City (2005), and I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore (2017). He has had voice roles in projects such as Happy Feet (2006), The Legend of Spyro (2006–2008), 9 (2009), Tron: Uprising (2012–2013), and Over the Garden Wall (2014). On television, Wood starred in the series Wilfred (2011–2014), Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016–2017), and Yellowjackets (2023–2025). 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 2014. Wood is a disc jockey, and has toured globally with his friend Zach Cowie as the duo Wooden Wisdom.