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Evan Rachel Wood
Evan Rachel Wood
Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987)[1] is an American actress and musician. She began acting in the 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic (1995–1996) and Once and Again (1999–2002). Wood made her debut as a leading film actress at the age of nine in Digging to China (1998) and became well known for her Golden Globe-nominated role as troubled, drug-addicted teenager Tracy Louise Freeland 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 character's daughter in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), a role for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. As of 2016, she plays the sentient android Dolores Abernathy in the HBO television series Westworld, for which she has been nominated for a Critics' Choice Award.
Her personal life, particularly her relationship with Marilyn Manson, to whom she was previously engaged, has attracted press attention.[3] In 2012, she married English actor Jamie Bell, with whom she has one son. They separated in 2014 after two years of marriage.
| Evan Rachel Wood | |
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Wood in April 2009 at the premiere of Whatever Works
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| Born | September 7, 1987 Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1994–present |
| Spouse(s) | Jamie Bell (m. 2012; separated 2014) |
| Children | 1 |
Early life and family
Wood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her mother, Sara Lynn Moore (born March 6, 1958), is an actress, director, and acting coach, and has converted to Judaism.[4][5] Her father, Ira David Wood III, is a locally prominent actor, singer, theater director, playwright, and from a Christian family; he is the Executive Director of a local regional theatre company called Theatre in the Park.Wood's brother, Ira David Wood IV, is also an actor; she has two other brothers, Dana and Thomas, and a sister named Aden. Her paternal aunt, Carol Winstead Wood, was a Hollywood production designer.[
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 musical comedy adaptation of A Christmas Carol when she was just a few months old.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 Anne Sullivan) in a production of The Miracle Worker, under her father's direction Wood's parents separated in 1996, and later divorced, and Wood moved with her mother to her mother's native Los Angeles County, California.[when?][7]
Wood briefly attended Cary Elementary, a public school in Cary, North Carolina.[citation needed] She was subsequently home-schooled and received her high school diploma at age 15.
Career
Early works: 1994–2000
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| Evan Rachel Wood in 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.[citation needed] 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.[15] 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, followed the same year, as well as a role in the CSI: Crime Scene Investigation episode "Got Murder?".
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.[7] 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 manipulative, 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."[16]
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."[17] Wood has commented on her choice of sexually themed roles, saying that she is not aiming for the "shock factor" in her film choices.[7]
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".[citation needed]
Music
In 2012 Wood recorded "I'd Have You Anytime" which is on the fourth CD of Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International, a compilation production for the benefit of the organization.[citation needed]
Wood is one-half of electro-pop formation Rebel and a Basketcase, which she formed with multi-instrumentalist Zach Villa in 2016
Personal life
Religion
In 2003, Wood described herself as Jewish. In 2012, Evan stated, "I believe in God but I am not religious. I am spiritual. My definition of God isn't in any religion. It's very personal." Wood's mother is a convert to Judaism, and Wood's father is Christian.
Relationships
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 matching tattoos of each other's initials; in Wood's case, a "J" on her left ankle.[ After a year together, the relationship ended in 2006.Wood later commented that, "We had matching tattoos because we knew our love would last forever. 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."
In January 2007, Wood's relationship with Marilyn Manson became public.[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". Two portraits of Wood, painted by Manson, have been exhibited at the Celebritarian Corporation Gallery of Fine Art.[ 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.[The couple split in November 2008; according to Wood, they "both decided to take some time apart so [they] could concentrate on work".They later re-united and it was reported in early January 2010 that the couple was engaged to be married.Wood and Manson ended their engagement in August 2010
In the summer of 2011, Wood was reported to have rekindled her relationship with Jamie Bell, five years after they first broke up.[Shortly after Wood disclosed that she was bisexual via Twitter,[ Wood and Bell were married in a small ceremony on October 30, 2012.They have one son, born in July 2013.Wood had a home birth with her son, and publicly thanked Ricki Lake, creator of the documentary The Business of Being Born, for inspiring her decision In May 2014, Wood and Bell announced that they had separated after 19 months of marriage.
In 2016, Wood told a Rolling Stone reporter that she had been raped previously. She subsequently offered more details publicly, stating that she had been raped twice, "many years ago." She confirmed she still suffered from the experience, but "I don't believe we live in a time where people can stay silent any longer," and that she was sharing her past to help other survivors.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1997 | Digging to China | Harriet Frankovitz | |
| 1998 | Practical Magic | Kylie Owens | |
| 1998 | Detour | Daniella Rogers | Direct-to-video |
| 2001 | Little Secrets | Emily Lindstrom | |
| 2002 | S1m0ne | Lainey Christian | |
| 2003 | Thirteen | Tracy Louise Freeland | |
| 2003 | The Missing | Lily Gilkeson | |
| 2005 | Pretty Persuasion | Kimberly Joyce | |
| 2005 | The Upside of Anger | Lavender "Popeye" Wolfmeyer | |
| 2005 | Down in the Valley | October "Tobe" | |
| 2006 | Asterix and the Vikings | Abba | Voice (English dub) |
| 2006 | Shark Bait | Cordelia | Voice |
| 2006 | Running with Scissors | Natalie Finch | |
| 2007 | King of California | Miranda | |
| 2007 | The Life Before Her Eyes | Young Diana McFee | |
| 2007 | Battle for Terra | Mala | Voice |
| 2007 | Across the Universe | Lucy Carrigan | |
| 2008 | The Wrestler | Stephanie Ramzinski | |
| 2009 | Whatever Works | Melodie St. Ann Celestine | |
| 2010 | The Conspirator | Anna Surratt | |
| 2011 | The Ides of March | Molly Stearns | |
| 2013 | Charlie Countryman | Gabi Ibanescu | |
| 2013 | A Case of You | Birdie Hazel | |
| 2014 | Barefoot | Daisy Kensington | |
| 2015 | Strange Magic | Marianne | Voice |
| 2015 | Into the Forest | Eva |
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