Elijah Wood played the hobbit
Frodo Baggins in
Peter Jackson's movie trilogy
The Lord of the Rings, based on the fantasy novels by
J. R. R. Tolkien. The first film in the series,
The Fellowship of the Ring, was a box-office hit in 2001; it was followed by
The Two Towers in 2002 and
The Return of the King in 2003. Wood had been a busy child actor before that, first appearing in small roles on TV and in the movies in the late 1980s. He had significant parts in the movies
Avalon (1990),
Radio Flyer (1992) and
The Good Son (1993), and starred in the 1993 version of
The Adventures of Huck Finn. In his teen years, he appeared in
The Ice Storm (1997, with
Sigourney Weaver),
Deep Impact (1998, with
Leelee Sobieski) and
The Faculty (1998, with
Josh Hartnett). His other films include
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, with
Mark Ruffalo),
Frank Miller's
Sin City (2005, with
Jessica Alba) and
Happy Feet (2006), and in 2011 he starred in the cable TV comedy
Wilfred.
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