Born as Elijah Jordan Woods in Cedar Rapids, Iowa on the 28th of January, 1981, the 35 year old personality has come a long way in the field of entertainment. His parents were Debra and Warren Woods. He come from a mixed decent of German, Austrian, Polish and Danish. Woods was a creative child and owning to his keen interest he learnt piano and stared as model since he was seven years of age.
Starting out with local level commercials he scaled his career to movies and TV shows, when got his first break in the film Back to the Future Part II with a small role. It all started when his family mobilised to Los Angeles and he got into a video under the direction of David Fincher. Acting became his deeper interest and for the role of Avalon in the film Avalon and Tin Men he received critical appreciation. Slowly, Woods carved his way to act beside renowned actors like Mel Gibson, Joseph Mazzello and Jamie Lee Curtis. The 1993 film The Adventures of Huck Finn saw him playing the title role and later in the year 1994 he starred in the movie The War, which got him award nominations and he received two of them. His other movies in the year 1990’s were The Ice Storm by director Ang Lee, the Dep impact in year 1997 and the movies Chain of Fools and Black and White in the year 1999.
The Lords of the Rings movie series cast him in the pivotal role of Frodo Baggins. Woods personifies the character from J.R.R. Tolkien’s novel in a sense which was loved and appreciated by all. The movie had a high profile cast working alongside Woods. After the shooting for the trilogy got over the director of the film Peter Jackson presented Woods with three accessories of Frodo; one ring, his sword and artificial hobbit feet. After a few movie shots he was seen in on the series Sin city in the character of a Kevin a psychopath killer. For the movie The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina he had voiced a character. He also did for the character of Mumble in the film Happy Feet. He has also been an anchor for the exclusive program based on Xbox 360 premiered on MTV.
Other movies in which he was after the Lord of the Rings were Green Street, Everything is Illuminated, Paris, je t'aime, Bobby. His various films have been premiered in Film Festivals around the world including Cannes. Woods is also a DJ and owns a record company named Simian Records. He does the DJ work with his Zach Cowie and is known by the name DJ Frodo. He has also given his voice to games Legend of Spyro and Spyro the Dragon. He was also seen once on the show Yo Gabba Gabba!
The actor’s profile could be easily found on twitter. He earned a more than handsome salary for The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and has raised his net worth to 18 million USD.
| Birth Date: | 28 Jan, 1981 |
| Age: | 39 yrs |
| Occupations: | Actor Television actor Film actor Voice actor |
| Citizenship: | United States of America |
| Birth Place: | Cedar Rapids |
| residence: | Austin |
| Gender: | Male |
| Description: | American actor |
| Twitter Id: | Elijahwood |
| Spouse: | Pamela Racine |
| Net Worth 2021: | 20 million |
