Biography |
Personal Info: Full name: Elijah Jordan Wood Nicknames: Monkey, Lij, The Funny, and Elwood Weight: 163lbs Height: 5'6 (168cms) Eyes: Blue Hair: Brown Date of Birth: January 28, 1981 Place of Birth: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA Parents: Deborah and Warren Wood (now divorced) Siblings: Zachariah (7 years older) and Hannah (2years Younger) Pets: 2 dogs: Racsal and Levonne Currently lives: L.A. USA Religion: Christian Nationality: American Occupation: Actor Education: Enrolled in modeling school at Avant Studios in Cedar Rapids Relationship: Currently single (Which is both good and bad...) Currently drives: Red Ferrari Hobbies: Photography, Reading, Fencing, In-line skating, Swimming, Basketball, Hockey, Cooking and Singing. Collects: Starwars Figures Smokes: Clove cigerettes (which apparently aren't supposed to be addictive. Elijah was offered them by Josh Hartnette during the filming of The Faculty, but didn't acually try the until the premiere. Since then he's been hooked on them.) Favorites: Colour: Blue Bands: The Beatles and Smashing Pumpkins CDs: Melon Chollie and the infinate sadness (sp) Books: J R R Tolkien's "The Hobbit" and Victor Hugo's "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" Movies: Stars Wars Trilogy, Heavenly Creatures and Braveheart. Actor: Tim Roth Actress: Emma Thompson T.V. shows: Entertainment Weekly and Extra Sport: In-line skating Worst movie: Godzilla (don't blame him, I hated it too!) Worst music: Country, Heavy metal, and Rap Distinguishing Features: Extremely gorgeous bright blue eyes, over which he occaisonally wears glasses. And a tattoo located on his right side of his lower torso, of an elvish figure, nine. Elijah had it done one day after the filming of The Lord of the Rings, with the other eight members of the fellowship. |
Other Facts: -If he wasn't an actor he'd be a Secret Agent - He won Saturn Award for Best Performance by a Young Actor in a Thriller/Fantasy in 1994 for The Good Son. -Presented at the Academy Awards ceramony in 1994 in place of Macaulay Culkin -He first appeared in 1989 in Paula Abdul's music video: Forever Your Girl -His next music video: The Cranberries "Ridiculous Thoughts" 1995 -Has been known to jump into the pool fully dressed -He loves animals (like me!!), and if he had just one wish, he would bring all the rainforests back (that's sooo sweet!!) -His first on screen kiss was cut out of the movie-it was in flipper -he wants to be a better actor, and explore parts of himself that he has never explored before, and he also wants to be a director -He auditioned to play Christian in Moulin Rouge, but didn't make the cut -He bites his nails (fingers and toes!) -He learns singing Professionally |
Special thanks to Always and forever and the Elijah Fan Network for the information on this page. |