Happy Birthday Elijah Wood! Elijah had a very early role playing a video gamer in Back to the Future Part II (1989). Next, he was in Forever Young (1992) discovering Mel Gibson’s pilot who has been put in cryogenic freeze. He took the lead role in The Adventures of Huck Finn (1993) directed by Stephen Sommers. Elijah was one of the students fighting the teachers possessed by parasites in The Faculty (1998) directed by Robert Rodriguez. It was in 2001, that Elijah took a defining role as Frodo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. He traveled to Mordor in The Lord of the Rings: the Two Towers (2002) and then fulfilled his task as Ringbearer in The Lord of the Rings: The Return fo the King (2003).
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Elijah Wood at the One Ring Con, 2006, photo by the author.
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Elijah played the villainous serial killer, Kevin, in Sin City (2005) based on the Frank Miller graphic novels. He was the voice of the lead penguin, Mumble, who has to dance in George Miller’s animated Happy Feet (2006) and the sequel Happy Feet Two (2011). Elijah had a brief cameo reprising Frodo in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012). He provided the voice of the lead, Beck, a program joining Tron in the animated series Tron: Uprising (2012-2013). Elijah was on the other side of an invasion at a school as a teacher fighting kids infected by a strange virus in Cooties (2014). In 2015, he fought alongside Vin Diesel as Dolan 37th, a priest tasked to fight witches in The Last Witch Hunter. Elijah played Todd Brotzman, a sidekick to the detective investigating the supernatural in the BBC series, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency (2016-1017). Lately, he voiced rival pilot, Jace Rucklin, in Star Wars: Resistance! Happy Birthday Elijah Wood!
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