Evan Rachael Wood

Evan Rachel Wood

Stats

Measurements: 34-26-33
Height: 5'5"
Date of birth: 6/16/1982
Eye color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde, redhead, brunette
Ethnicity: American
Job: actress

Bio

Evan Rachel Wood is an American film, TV, and theater actress. She sings, too. She began acting in the late 1990s, appearing in several TV roles, including American Gothic and Once and Again. She became well known after her Golden Globe-nominated turn in Thirteen. Most recently, she has appeared in Across the Universe, a film whose trailer initially looks like a Zucker Brothers comedy. Then you find out they’re serious.

Wood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, to a family of actors, which is more entertaining than being raised by wolves. Wolves are limited in their ability to communicate, and do not have much of a sense of dramatic structure.

After an early life of much acting in school and community theater, Wood appeared in several made for TV movies. When her parents divorced in 1996, Wood moved with her mother to Los Angeles. Her first major screen role was Digging to China, which starred Kevin Bacon. Wood remembers the role as initially being “hard,” but notes that it eventually led to her decision that this is something she “might never want to stop doing.” Many people who see Kevin Bacon’s film Footloose, “might never want to stop dancing.”

Wood's breakthrough movie role followed, with the controversial 2003 indie film Thirteen. She then went on to do Ron Howard’s The Missing, opposite Cate Blanchett, and followed up with Pretty Persuasion, Down in the Valley, and Running with Scissors. Nonetheless, Wood has stated that she prefers music to movies and is planning to launch a singing career. She is also involved with Julie Taymor’s Spider-Man: The Musical, which is aiming to “estrange comic book geeks from mainstream society even further than they already are.”

In 2007, Wood's relationship with Marilyn became public, and a collective “Gaaaaaaaagh!!!” could be heard among Wood’s fan base. In November 2008, the couple called it quits. And there was much rejoicing. In December 2008, and again in January 2009, Wood vehemently denied that she was dating Mickey Rourke, her co-star in The Wrestler (2008). She said on her blog, "He's too old for me. Nothing ever happened and nothing ever will." And another loud cheer went up.


FunFacts

Trained dancer

Friends with Nikki Reed

Dated Marylin Manson

Loves U2

Ranked #7 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actress list


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