Full Name: Frodo Baggins
Date of Birth: T.A. 22 September 2968
Parents: Drogo Baggins & Primula Brandybuck
Race: Hobbit
Weapon: Sting
Name: Elijah Wood
Birth Name: Elijah Jordan Wood
Date of Birth: 28 January, 1981
Place of Birth: Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA
Nickname: Elwood, Lij and monkey
Height: 5’7”
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Mother: Deborah
Father: Warren
Sisters: Hannah
Brother: Zach
Hobbies: Reading, basketball, swimming, fencing, photography, hockey, surfing, cooking, and singing
Favorite Color: Blue
Favorite Movies: Star Wars Trilogy
Favorite Band: The Smashing Pumpkins
Favorite Book: The Hobbit
Favorite Actor: Tim Roth
Favorite Actress: Emma Thompson
Random Trivia
1st Recipient of the NATO/ShoWest Young Star of the Year Award
Elijah Wood heard about the Lord of the Rings trilogy while filming Faculty, The (1998). Immediately, he sensed that this was the chance of a lifetime. Director George Huang, a personal friend of Wood's, filmed his audition tape for the Lord of the Rings Trilogy. He shot the scene from different angles which were cut together for the video. They sent the video off to New Zealand for director Peter Jackson and a few months later, he got the part.
He wears glasses
He loves animals (own 2 dogs)
Bites his fingernails
Contact
Elijah Wood
Nichole David
William Morris Agency
151 S El Camino Dr
Beverly Hills CA 90212-2775
USA
Quotes
"[Frodo]'s just got a spirit, you know? That's what I love about him...he's very alive and very lively." (E!Online)
"I don't know how I picked this spot [pulls up his shirt to show the tattoo on his stomach]. It just felt like the right place.”
"The first day I put on the feet, it was amazing. People were gluing stuff to my feet, and they looked really cool. But that wore off so bloody fast. Once we started filming, I wanted to have nothing to do with them, because putting them on meant losing an hour and a half of sleep. I had the sweatiest feet of all the Hobbits, so the glue was constantly melting, and we had to reapply them. It was just a mess."
"I knew going into it that it would be as much a life experience as it would be a filmmaking experience. I knew I would be taking a journey that would mirror that of the book. And I knew I would go as a fresh 18-year-old and leave a different person--hopefully a wiser, older, more mature, stronger individual. I lived life as an adult really for the first time. I've had some independence, and I have always felt older than I was. But going to New Zealand and truly getting a taste of what that meant really gave me a new perspective on life."
"We had a physical trainer at the beginning. We had about two months of working out in a gym and sword lessons. We had rowing lessons, too. A lot of those kind of things to physically prepare just so we could endure it all. I don't know how, but we managed to get through. Since I've come back home, I haven't been going to the gym. It's terrible. I've just been relaxing like I've never relaxed before."
"I think we lived very Hobbit lifestyles. We were always going to the pub and having a bit of a drink and a meal. Hobbits love to eat, so Hobbits love to drink. We, in some ways, embodied the things that are Hobbity initially, and I think we just became more Hobbity as the project wore on. The Hobbits tended to spend their free time together, so the the closest friends that I had on the movie were Billy and Dom and Sean. And Orlando the Elf, who happened to join us as well, much to our dismay. No, he's a good guy. The Hobbits went to Australia...we went to Sydney and checked out the Star Wars set. The Elf joined us. We went on surfing trips a lot. It was a close union of boys."
