Evan Rachel Wood
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Born
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1987-09-07
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September 7, 1987
(age 36)
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Occupation(s)
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Years active
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Evan Rachel Wood
(born September 7, 1987)
[1]
is an American actress and singer. She began her acting career in the late 1990s, appearing in several television series, including
American Gothic
and
Once and Again
. She made her debut as a leading film actress in
Little Secrets
(2002) and became well known after her transition to a more adult-oriented
Golden Globe
-nominated role in the teen drama film
Thirteen
(2003).
[2]
Wood continued acting mostly in independent films, including
Pretty Persuasion
(2005),
Down in the Valley
(2006),
Running with Scissors
(2006), and in the big studio production
Across the Universe
(2007). Since 2008, Wood has appeared in more mainstream films, including
The Wrestler
(2008),
Whatever Works
(2009) and
The Ides of March
(2011). She has also returned to television, playing the supporting role of
Queen Sophie-Anne
on
True Blood
from 2009 to 2011 and playing
Kate Winslet
's daughter in the
HBO
miniseries
Mildred Pierce
, a role for which she was nominated for the
Golden Globe
and
Emmy Award
for Best Supporting Actress.
Wood has been described by
The Guardian
as "one of the best actresses of her generation."
[3]
Her personal life, particularly her relationship with
Marilyn Manson
, to whom she was engaged until August 2010, has attracted press attention.
[4]
Early life and family
Evan Rachel Wood was born in
Raleigh, North Carolina
. Her father,
Ira David Wood III
, is a locally prominent actor, singer, theater director, and playwright who is the Executive Director of a local
regional theatre
company called
Theatre in the Park
.
[5]
Her mother, Sara Lynn Moore (born March 6, 1958), is an actress, director, and acting coach.
[3]
Wood's brother,
Ira David Wood IV
, is also an actor; she has another brother, Dana. Her paternal aunt, Carol Winstead Wood, is a
Hollywood
production designer.
[6]
Wood and her brothers were actively involved in Theatre in the Park while growing up, including an appearance by her in the 1987 production of her father's internationally renowned musical comedy adaptation of
A Christmas Carol
when she was just a few months old.
[7]
Subsequently, she played the
Ghost of Christmas Past
in several productions at the theater, and she later starred as
Helen Keller
alongside her mother (who played
Annie Sullivan
) in a production of
The Miracle Worker
, under her father's direction.
[8]
[9]
Career
Early Works: 1994?2000
Wood began her career appearing in several
made-for-television films
from 1994 onward,
[
citation needed
]
also playing an occasional role in the television series
American Gothic
. In 1996, Wood's parents separated and later divorced, and Wood moved with her mother to her mother's native Los Angeles County, California.
[3]
[10]
After a one-season role on the television drama
Profiler
, Wood was cast in the supporting role of Jessie Sammler on the television show
Once and Again
.
Wood's first major screen role was in the low-budget 1998 film
Digging to China
, which also starred
Kevin Bacon
and
Mary Stuart Masterson
. The film won the Children's Jury Award at the
Chicago International Children's Film Festival
.
[11]
Wood remembers the role as initially being hard, but notes that it "eventually led to her decision that acting is something she might never want to stop doing."
[3]
She also had a role in
Practical Magic
, a
family
fantasy film
directed by
Griffin Dunne
and starring
Sandra Bullock
and
Nicole Kidman
, that same year.
2001?2005
Wood made her teenage debut as a leading film actress in 2002's
Little Secrets
, directed by
Blair Treu
, where she played aspiring 14-year-old concert violinist Emily Lindstrom. For that role, she was nominated for Best Leading Young Actress at the Young Artist Awards.
[12]
That same year, Wood played a supporting role in the
Andrew Niccol
-directed
science
fiction
satirical
drama film
,
S1m0ne
, which starred
Al Pacino
.
Wood's breakthrough movie role followed with the 2003 film
Thirteen
. She played the role of Tracy Louise Freeland, one of two young teens who sink into a downward spiral of hard drugs, sex, and petty crime. Her performance was nominated for a
Golden Globe Award
as
Best Actress - Drama
and for a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award for Best Actress. During the time of
Thirteen'
s release,
Vanity Fair
named Wood as one of the
It Girls of Hollywood
, and she appeared, along with the other actresses, on the magazine's July 2003 cover.
[13]
A supporting role opposite
Cate Blanchett
and
Tommy Lee Jones
in
Ron Howard
's
The Missing
, in which she played the kidnapped daughter, Lilly Gilkeson, in a
Searchers
-style western, followed the same year.
Also in 2003 she played the part of Nora Easton in the episode "
Got Murder?
" of TV series
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
.
In 2005, Wood appeared in the
Mike Binder
-directed
The Upside of Anger
, opposite
Kevin Costner
and
Joan Allen
, a well-reviewed film in which Wood played Lavender "Popeye" Wolfmeyer, one of four sisters dealing with their father's absence. Her character also narrated the film.
[3]
Wood's next two starring roles were in dark independent
films
. In the 2005 Grand Jury Prize
Sundance Film Festival
nominee
Pretty Persuasion
, a
black comedy
/
satirical
focusing on themes of
sexual harassment and discrimination in schools
and attitudes about females in
media
and
society
, Wood played Kimberly Joyce, a villainous, sexually active high-schooler. One critic commented, "Wood does flip cynicism with such precise, easy rhythms and with such obvious pleasure in naughtiness that she's impossible to hate."
[14]
In
Down in the Valley
, which was directed by
David Jacobson
, Wood's character, Tobe, falls in love with an older man, a
cowboy
who is at odds with modern society (
Edward Norton
). Of her performance, it was written that "Wood conveys every bit of the adamant certainty and aching vulnerability inherent in late adolescence."
[15]
Wood has commented on her choice of sexually themed roles, saying that she is not aiming for the "shock factor" in her film choices.
[3]
In 2005, Wood starred in the
music videos
for
Bright Eyes
' "At the Bottom of Everything" and
Green Day
's "
Wake Me Up When September Ends
".
2006?present
In September 2006, Wood received
Premiere
magazine's "Spotlight Award for Emerging Talent."
[16]
Also in 2006, she was described by
The Guardian
as being "wise beyond her years" and as "one of the best actresses of her generation."
[3]
Later in 2006, Wood appeared with an all-star ensemble cast as Natalie Finch in the
Golden Globe
-nominated 2006
comedy
-
drama film
Running with Scissors
. Directed by
Ryan Murphy
and starring
Annette Bening
, the film was based on the memoir by
Augusten Burroughs
, which is a
semi-autobiographical
account of Burroughs' childhood in a
dysfunctional family
. Wood was awarded the 2007
Cannes Film Festival
Chopard Trophy for Female Revelation for her performance.
[17]
Wood had roles in two films released in September 2007.
King of California
, which premiered at the
Sundance Film Festival
,
[18]
a story of a
bipolar
jazz
musician (
Michael Douglas
) and his long-suffering teenage daughter, Miranda (Wood), who are reunited after his two-year stay in a mental institution and who embark on a
quixotic
search for
Spanish
treasure. One review praised Wood's performance as "excellent".
[19]
Across the Universe
, a
Julie Taymor
-directed musical that was nominated for a
Golden Globe
and an
Academy Award
and was set in
Liverpool
, New York City, and
Vietnam
, focused on the tribulations of several characters during the counter-cultural revolution of the 1960s. It was set to the songs of
The Beatles
. Wood, who has described the music of The Beatles as a major part of her life, played Lucy, who develops a relationship with Jude (
Jim Sturgess
).
[20]
The film featured her singing musical numbers and she describes the role as her favorite, calling director Julie Taymor "one of the most amazing directors out there."
[21]
One critic wrote that "Wood brings much-needed emotional depth."
[22]
Wood provided the voice of an
alien
named Mala, a mechanically inclined free-thinker, in
Battle for Terra
, a 2008
computer-animated
science fiction film
about a peaceful alien planet that faces destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human race. The film won the 2008 Grand Prize at the Ottawa International Animation Festival. The film showed at the San Francisco International Film Festival, where she received an award at the Midnight Awards along with Elijah Wood.
[23]
Wood starred in 2008's
Vadim Perelman
-directed
The Life Before Her Eyes
, based on the
Laura Kasischke
novel of the same name, about the friendship of two teens of opposite character who are involved in a
Columbine
-like shooting incident at their school and are forced to make an impossible choice. Wood played the younger version of
Uma Thurman
's character, Diana. One critic cited her performance as "hands-down extraordinary".
[24]
Wood stated that she intended the film to be the last one in which she played a teenager.
[25]
In the same year, she also co-starred in director
Darren Aronofsky
's
The Wrestler
,
[26]
winner of the
Golden Lion
Award for Best Film at the
Venice Film Festival
, about Randy "Ram" Robinson (
Mickey Rourke
), a professional wrestler from the 1980s who is forced to retire after a heart attack threatens to kill him the next time he wrestles. Wood played Stephanie, Randy "Ram" Robinson's estranged daughter. Of her performance, one critic wrote, "Once her character stops stonewalling her father and hears him out, Wood provides a fine foil for Rourke in their turbulent scenes together."
[27]
Wood co-starred in
Woody Allen
's
Whatever Works
,
[28]
which premiered at the 2009
Tribeca Film Festival
, playing the young wife of
Larry David
's
[29]
character. In May 2009, she played
Juliet
in six fundraising performances of
William Shakespeare
's
Romeo and Juliet
at the Theater In The Park.
[30]
The production was directed by her brother, who also starred.
Wood had a recurring role in the second and third seasons of the
HBO
supernatural drama series,
True Blood
, from 2009 to 2011 as
Sophie-Anne Leclerq
. She appeared at the 2010
MTV Video Music Awards
on September 12, 2010.
[31]
Wood had a role in the film
The Conspirator
, which premiered at
Ford's Theatre
in Washington D. C. in April, 2011, directed by
Robert Redford
(about the conspiracy surrounding the assassination of
Abraham Lincoln
). She also had a role in
The Ides of March
.
[32]
In production
Wood has been attached to play writer
Anne Bronte
in the film
Bronte
, the title character in
Flora Plum
[33]
and will be involved in the film
Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll
.
[10]
[25]
Variety
reported in May 2010 that Wood and Marilyn Manson were attached to star in a slasher film entitled
Splatter Sisters
.
[34]
Wood was confirmed to join the cast of
The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman
with
Shia LaBeouf
and
Rupert Grint
.
[35]
Personal life
Wood has described her religion as
Jewish
[36]
(her mother is a
convert to Judaism
and her father is Christian).
[37]
[38]
She briefly attended Cary Elementary, a public school in
Cary, North Carolina
. She was
home-schooled
and received her
high school diploma
at age 15.
[39]
Wood has a black belt in
taekwondo
.
[40]
Wood began dating British actor
Jamie Bell
in 2005 after they co-starred in the music video for
Green Day
's song "
Wake Me Up When September Ends
". They got tattoos of each other's first initial;
[41]
in Wood's case, a "J" on her left ankle.
[42]
After a year together, the relationship ended in 2006.
[43]
Wood later commented that, "We had matching tattoos because we knew our love would last for ever. Trouble is, it didn't, things happened, we split. But I don't regret the tattoo. It reminds me of a great, great period in my life."
[44]
In January 2007, Wood's relationship with
Marilyn Manson
became public.
[45]
The two met at a party at the
Chateau Marmont Hotel
; Wood has stated that she was attracted to Manson's frequent use of black
eye liner
and once described their relationship as "healthy and loving."
[46]
Two portraits of Wood, painted by Manson, have been exhibited at the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art.
[
citation needed
]
Wood is also the inspiration behind Manson's song "
Heart-Shaped Glasses
", and she appeared with Manson in the song's music video. Manson has said that Wood's appearance was the highest-paid music video role ever.
[25]
The couple split in November 2008; according to Wood, they "both decided to take some time apart so [they] could concentrate on work."
[47]
They later re-united and it was reported in early January 2010 that the couple was engaged to be married.
[48]
Wood and Manson ended their engagement in August 2010.
[49]
In the summer of 2011, Wood was reported to have rekindled her relationship with Jamie Bell, five years after they first broke up.
[44]
Wood and Bell married in a small ceremony on October 30, 2012.
[50]
In August 2012, Wood identified herself as
bisexual
on Twitter.
[51]
[52]
Filmography
Awards
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.
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Barefoot
details at IMDb
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