Biography
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), an...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ready or Not: Here I Come
2026
The sequel to the 2019 film. Plot TBA.

Rabbit Trap
2025
Producer
When a musician and her husband move to a remote house in Wales, the music they make disturbs local ancient folk magic, bringing a nameless child to t...

The Toxic Avenger
2025
as Fritz Garbinger
A horrible toxic accident transforms downtrodden janitor Winston Gooze into a new evolution of hero: THE TOXIC AVENGER! Now wielding a glowing mop wit...

Ebony & Ivory
2025
Executive Producer
Two musical legends gather at a Scottish Cottage on The Mull Of Kintyre for a tense summit to discuss a potential collaboration that will ultimately r...

The Monkey
2025
as Ted
When twin brothers find a mysterious wind-up monkey, a series of outrageous deaths tear their family apart. Twenty-five years later, the monkey begins...

Bookworm
2024
as Strawn Wise
Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to ...

Bookworm
2024
Executive Producer
Eleven-year-old Mildred’s life is turned upside down when her mother lands in hospital and estranged, American magician father, Strawn Wise, comes to ...

Welcome Space Brothers
2023
Executive Producer
The true story of The Unarius Academy of Science, a long-running extraterrestrial-channeling spiritual school in El Cajon, California that in the late...

Tony Pizzas Tony Pizzas
2023
as Elijah Wood
A short story following the trials and tribulations of the titular Tony Pizza.

The Elephant 6 Recording Co.
2023
as Self
The unique inside story of the collective creative evolution behind the sounds of 1990s psychedelic rock bands Olivia Tremor Control, Neutral Milk Hot...

No Man of God
2021
as Bill Hagmaier
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.

No Man of God
2021
Producer
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.

Archenemy
2020
Producer
Max Fist claims he’s a hero from another dimension who has somehow landed on Earth and been stripped of his powers. Instead of treating him like a pow...

Solar Noise
2020
as Self (archive footage)
After experiencing an unexplained cosmic event, all inhabitants of planet Earth are able to glimpse scenes of the future.

Seven Stages to Achieve Eternal Bliss
2020
Producer
A small-town couple finds the perfect apartment in the big city, except there's one catch: the apartment is home to the ritualistic suicides of a dera...

Color Out of Space
2020
Producer
The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life...

Daniel Isn't Real
2019
Producer
After witnessing traumatic violence as an 8-year-old boy, Luke creates an imaginary friend named Daniel who leads him into a world of fantasy allowing...

Come to Daddy
2019
as Norval Greenwood
After receiving a cryptic letter from his estranged father, Norval travels to his dad’s oceanfront home for what he hopes will be a positive experienc...

The Panama Papers
2018
as John Doe (voice)
A documentary feature film about the biggest global corruption scandal in history, and the hundreds of journalists who risked their lives to break the...

Mandy
2018
Producer
The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapu...

The Postman Dreams 2
2017
The Postman Dreams 2 is part of the Prada Postman's Gifts project for the Holiday Season.

78/52
2017
as Self
The most famous murder scene in movie history comprises 78 camera settings and 52 cuts: the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho. 78/52 tells the...

Bitch
2017
Producer
A woman snaps and assumes the psyche of a vicious dog as her checked-out, philandering husband attempts to keep the family together.

I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore
2017
as Tony
When a depressed woman is burglarized, she finds a new sense of purpose by tracking down the thieves alongside her obnoxious neighbor. But they soon f...

The Greasy Strangler
2016
Producer
Ronnie runs a Disco walking tour with his son, Brayden. When a sexy woman takes the tour, it begins a competition between father and son for her love....

The Trust
2016
as David Waters
A pair of cops investigating a drug invasion stumble upon a mysterious bank vault.

The Last Witch Hunter
2015
as Dolan 37th
The modern world holds many secrets, but by far the most astounding is that witches still live among us; vicious supernatural creatures intent on unle...

The Boy
2015
Producer
An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.

Henry
2015
A hedgehog named Henry makes a wish on his birthday for friends to hug.

Behind Over the Garden Wall
2015
as Self
A special look at the making of Patrick McHale's award winning miniseries Over the Garden Wall.

Made in Japan
2015
as Self (voice)
Made in Japan is the remarkable story of Tomi Fujiyama, the first female Japanese country music star. From playing the USO circuit throughout Asia to h...

Made in Japan
2015
Executive Producer
Made in Japan is the remarkable story of Tomi Fujiyama, the first female Japanese country music star. From playing the USO circuit throughout Asia to h...

Deep Web
2015
Thanks
Deep Web gives the inside story of one of the most important and riveting digital crime sagas of the century -- the arrest of Ross William Ulbricht, t...

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
2014
Executive Producer
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampi...

Set Fire to the Stars
2014
as John M. Brinnin
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

Set Fire to the Stars
2014
Co-Producer
An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retreat to save his hell raising hero, Dylan Thomas.

Cooties
2014
as Clint
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley b...

Cooties
2014
Producer
A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school, transforming the kids into a feral swarm of mass savages. An unlikely hero must lead a motley b...

Why Horror?
2014
as Animation VO (voice)
Horror fan Tal Zimerman examines the psychology of horror around the world to find out why people love to be scared.

Open Windows
2014
as Nick Chambers
Nick is excited to discover he's won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, he receives an...

Open Windows
2014
Executive Producer
Nick is excited to discover he's won a dinner date with his favorite actress, Jill Goddard. But when Jill refuses to honor the contest, he receives an...

This Must Be the Only Fantasy
2013
as Trevor
Set in present day Los Angeles, the film begins with a friendly teenage gathering but quickly evolves into a mystical journey, complete with a nefario...
Mundos virtuales
2013

Toad Road
2013
Executive Producer
Stuck in a dead end town, young James kills time with his druggie friends, engaging in debauched chemical intake to the point of unconsciousness, unti...

Tome of the Unknown
2013
as Wirt (voice)
Wirt and Gregory are brothers who get tired of walking, so, they borrow a car from a romantic songster made of vegetables.

Maniac: The Making of Documentary
2013
as Self
Behind the scenes documentary on the 2012 film MANIAC directed by Franck Khalfoun.

Grand Piano
2013
as Tom Selznick
Tom Selznick, the most talented pianist of his generation, stopped performing in public because of his stage fright. Years after a catastrophic perfor...

LFO
2013
Executive Producer
LFO is a dark comedy/drama/Sci-Fi about a man who realizes that he can hypnotise with sound. He starts experimenting on his neighbors, where the abuse...

Pawn Shop Chronicles
2013
as Johnny Shaw
The stories of a missing wife, a couple of meth heads and an Elvis impersonator are connected by the items found in a small town's pawn shop.

A Band Called Death
2013
as Self
Before Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was Death. Formed in the early '70s by three teenage brothers from Detroit, Death is cre...

Setup, Punch
2013
as Reuben Stein
Showing that there is always a reason to laugh, stand-up comic Reuben Stein does the most daring set of his life. The consequences will change his lif...

Maniac
2012
as Frank
As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
2012
as Frodo Baggins
Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit enjoying his quiet life, is swept into an epic quest by Gandalf the Grey and thirteen dwarves who seek to reclaim their mounta...

The Ballad Of Danko Jones
2012
as Mouse
The Ballad Of Danko Jones is a short intriguing story of Canadian rock band Danko Jones trying to save the world from an evil scientist whilst escapin...
The Narrative of Victor Karloch
2012
as William Merriwether
The Narrative of Victor Karloch is a Gothic Victorian horror short film that uses 30 inch tall rod puppets, traditional shadow puppetry (woodcuts desi...

Celeste & Jesse Forever
2012
as Scott
Celeste and Jesse met in high school and got married young. They laugh at the same jokes and finish each other’s sentences. They are forever linked in...

Revenge for Jolly!
2012
as Thomas
Harry is having a very, very bad day. He returns home from an all-night drinking binge with his cousin Cecil, to discover that his little dog Jolly......

Happy Feet Two
2011
as Mumble (voice)
Mumble the penguin has a problem: his son Erik, who is reluctant to dance, encounters the Mighty Sven — a penguin who can fly! Things get worse for Mu...

Nightmare Factory
2011
as Self
The story of how one Pittsburgh boy’s fascination with monsters drove him to the very top of the Hollywood food chain. In 1989, Greg Nicotero, much to...

Fight for Your Right Revisited
2011
as Ad-Rock (B-Boys 1)
Fight for Your Right Revisited stars Danny McBride, Seth Rogen, and Elijah Wood as the "young" Beastie Boys from the past and Jack Black, John C. Reil...

Boobie
2011
as James
Two young men find themselves at a precarious crossroads during a typical afternoon of horseplay.

WWII in HD: The Air War
2010
as Andy Rooney (voice)
Follows the incredible stories of three 8th Air Force airmen and Stars & Stripes reporter Andy Rooney during the bloody year leading up to D-Day again...

The Romantics
2010
as Chip
Alliances are tested when seven college pals reunite to watch two of their own say “I do” at a seaside wedding. But the maid of honor and the groom sh...

The Heart is a Drum Machine
2010
as Self
What is music? Many of today's top artists and scholars grapple with the question in this cinematic look at a uniquely human obsession. The Heart is a...

Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Corp. Wilfred Hanson / Capt. John C. Chapin
A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects.

9
2009
as #9 (voice)
When 9 first comes to life, he finds himself in a post-apocalyptic world. All humans are gone, and it is only by chance that he discovers a small comm...

Operation Filmmaker
2008
as Self
Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a young and charismatic film student, Muthana Mohmed, stands in the rubble of the city's film school and expla...

The Oxford Murders
2008
as Martin
At Oxford University, a professor and a grad student work together to try and stop a potential series of murders seemingly linked by mathematical symb...

Day Zero
2007
as Aaron Feller
The military draft is back. Three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they're forced to confront everything th...

Happy Feet
2006
as Mumble (voice)
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fier...

Bobby
2006
as William Avary
In 1968 the lives of a retired doorman, hotel manager, lounge singer, busboy, beautician and others intersect in the wake of Robert F. Kennedy's assas...

Paris Je T'aime
2006
as Le garçon (Quartier de la Madeleine)
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories,...

Green Street Hooligans
2005
as Matt Buckner
After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by ...

Everything Is Illuminated
2005
as Jonathan Safran Foer
A young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II—in...

I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust
2005
as Klaus Langer / Dawid Rubinowicz (voice)
Brings to life the diaries of young people who witnessed first-hand the horrors of the Holocaust. Through an emotional montage of archival footage, pe...

Sin City
2005
as Kevin
Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it ...

Ringers: Lord of the Fans
2005
as Self
'Ringers: Lord of the Fans' is a feature-length documentary that explores how "The Lord of the Rings" has influenced Western popular culture over the ...

A Filmmaker's Journey: Making 'The Return of the King'
2004
as Self
A documentary about the making of 'The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King'.

Frodo Is Great... Who Is That?!!
2004
as Self
The documentary looks at the rise to celebrity status of NZ actor and musician Bret McKenzie, who appeared for 3 seconds as an extra in "The Lord of t...

The Making of the Return of the King
2004
as Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selecte...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
as Patrick
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his me...

The Quest Fulfilled: A Director's Vision
2003
as Self
Making of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
2003
as Frodo
As armies mass for a final battle that will decide the fate of the world--and powerful, ancient forces of Light and Dark compete to determine the outc...

Beyond the Movie: The Return of the King
2003
as Self
Documentary exploring the parallels between 'The Return of the King' and real events and people in history.
The Making of 'The Long and Short of It'
2003
as Self
A documentary about the making of 'The Long and Short of It'.

The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina
2003
as Tom Thumb (voice)
Voiced by Elijah Wood, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and others, this film features Tom Thumb and Thumbelina, the tiny, famed fairy-tale favorites, who are to...

Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over
2003
as The Guy
Carmen's caught in a virtual reality game designed by the Kids' new nemesis, the Toymaker. It's up to Juni to save his sister, and ultimately the worl...

The Making of The Two Towers
2003
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally selected by Pet...

Film Collectibles: Capturing Movie Memories
2003
as Self
From the very beginning of the design process on the film trilogy, right up to the summer months prior to the release of The Lord of the Rings: The Tw...

The Long and Short of It
2003
First Assistant Director
A workman gets some unexpected help from two people of vastly different sizes.

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
2002
as Frodo
Frodo Baggins and the other members of the Fellowship continue on their sacred quest to destroy the One Ring--but on separate paths. Their destinies l...

The Cranberries - Stars: The Best Videos 1992-2002
2002
as Boy with Hearphones (segment "Ridiculous Thoughts")
1. Dreams 2. Linger 3. Zombie 4. Ode To My Family 5. I Can´t Be With You 6. Ridiculous Thoughts 7. Salvation 8. Free To Decide 9. When You´re Gone 10....

Ash Wednesday
2002
as Sean Sullivan
In early 1980s Manhattan, a pair of Irish-American brothers become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.

Try Seventeen
2002
as Jones
Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himse...

The Making of The Fellowship of the Ring
2002
as Self
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring." Created by filmmaker Costa Botes (personally sel...

Beyond the Movie: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Self
A documentary about the influences on Tolkien, covering in brief his childhood and how he detested the onslaught of industry through the idyllic count...

The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
2001
as Frodo
Young hobbit Frodo Baggins, after inheriting a mysterious ring from his uncle Bilbo, must leave his home in order to keep it from falling into the han...

A Passage to Middle-Earth: Making of 'Lord of the Rings'
2001
as Self
The making of Peter Jackson's adaptation of Tolkien's classic work.

Quest for the Ring
2001
as Self

Chain of Fools
2001
as Mikey
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.

The Bumblebee Flies Anyway
2000
as Barney Snow
An amnesiac youth tries to piece together his past, but what he discovers may jeopardize his future.

Black and White
1999
as Wren
Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high schoo...

The Faculty
1998
as Casey Connor
When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make the chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicio...

Deep Impact
1998
as Leo Biederman
A seven-mile-wide space rock is hurtling toward Earth, threatening to obliterate the planet. Now, it's up to the president of the United States to sav...

The Ice Storm
1997
as Mikey Carver
In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.

Oliver Twist
1997
as The Artful Dodger
Charles Dickens' classical story about the young orphan boy in 1837 England is again re-filmed in grand fashion. Richard Dreyfuss portrays Fagin, the ...

Flipper
1996
as Sandy Ricks
Sandy Ricks is sent by his mom to Coral Key, a rustic island in the Florida keys, to spend the summer with his uncle Porter Ricks. Sandy dislikes ever...

The War
1994
as Stu Simmons
The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep ...

North
1994
as North
Eleven-year-old North has had it with his parents. They are always busy with their careers and don't give North the attention he needs, so he files a ...

The Good Son
1993
as Mark Evans
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic be...

The Adventures of Huck Finn
1993
as Huck Finn
Mischievous Huck Finn is unnerved when his father, reemerging after years away, kidnaps him in an attempt to take away a $600 inheritance from his lat...

Forever Young
1992
as Nat Cooper
A 1939 test pilot asks his best friend to use him as a guinea pig for a cryogenics experiment. Daniel McCormick wants to be frozen for a year so that ...

Day-O
1992
as Day-O
A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reap...

Radio Flyer
1992
as Mike
A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. W...
The Witness
1992
as Little Boy
In the Second World War, probably in a concentration camp somewhere, Gary Sinise is a soldier who conducts Jews everyday to some place where only clot...

Paradise
1991
as Willard Young
A 10-year-old boy spends a summer in the country with a childless couple and a precocious girl.

Avalon
1990
as Michael Kaye
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a bett...

Child in the Night
1990
as Luke
Traumatized after seeing his father brutally murdered by a hook wielding assailant, young Luke is tasked to help unmask the killer.

Internal Affairs
1990
as Sean Stretch
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the a...

Back to the Future Part II
1989
as Video Game Boy
Marty and Doc are at it again as the time-traveling duo head to 2015 to nip some McFly family woes in the bud. But things go awry thanks to bully Biff...

L.A. Rush
N/A
A father goes into the world of video gaming to save his teenage daughter from the control of a mysterious game developer.
Disney's Safety Hits Volume 1: Bike Safety With Bill Nye The Science Guy & I'm No Fool On Wheels
N/A
as Pinocchio
Instill a heads-up attitude all year long with this new DVD featuring two of our most popular safety classics. Who better to get kids interested in bi...

The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes
N/A
Producer
In 1967, strait-laced exploitation movie king Roger Corman embarks on a life-changing attempt to capture the psychedelic world of LSD on film by takin...
The Land of Nod
N/A
Producer
A group of isolated neighbors in their small and secluded town in the northern Canadian territories during a snowstorm.

Dawning
N/A
Executive Producer
Three sisters who have withdrawn to their family’s vacation home in the wake of the youngest sister’s second suicide attempt. When news reaches them t...