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Frodo Baggins lived a normal hobbit life until he inherited a certain
ancient artifact. This was the ring of the dark Lord Sauron. His life
wasn't ordinary anymore.
Frodo is a hobbit that lives in the Shire with his Uncle Bilbo Baggins.
Because of his Uncle frodo now has to make the biggest decision of his
life. To take the ring to Mordor and destroy it in the fires of Mount
Doom. This is a heavy burden for Frodo. It constantly pulls on him as
he walks the hazardous path to Mordor.
Frodo is the son of Drogo Baggins. his mother and father left him so
his Uncle Bilbo took him in and raised him as if his own son. Frodo has
become very fond of his Uncle and often pretends he is off with Bilbo
on one of his adventures. Frodo is also very good friends with the
wizard Gandalf the Grey. Their friendship grows as Gandalf helps Frodo
in his quest to destroy the ring.
Now frodo walks the dangerous path to Mordor and may never see the
Shire ever again.
The actor that plays Frodo is Elijah Wood.
On January 28th 1981 a boy was born who would become an actor and star
in one of the biggest movies of all time.
Born January 28, 1981, Elijah Wood has grown up to be one of the most
well respected and steadily employed actors of his generation.
Born in Cedar Rapids, IA, Wood modeled and did local commercials
before moving with his family to Los Angeles in 1988. It was there
that Wood got his first break, a small role in a Paula Abdul video.
Film work almost instantly followed, with a bit part in the 1989 Back
to the Future II. It was Wood's role as Aidan Quinn's son in Barry
Levinson's 1990 Avalon (the third film in the Baltimore trilogy
containing Diner [1982] and Tin Men [1987]) that first gave Wood
attention, as the film received widespread critical acclaim and was
nominated for four Academy Awards. After a small part in the Richard
Gere potboiler Internal Affairs (1990), Wood secured his first starring
role in Paradise (1991), in which he played a young boy who brings
estranged couple Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson back together. He
received good reviews for his performance -- some said it was one of
the best things about the film -- and from there went on to co-star
with Mel Gibson and Jamie Lee Curtis in Forever Young and in Radio
Flyer (both 1992). In 1993, Wood co-starred with Macaulay Culkin in
The Good Son, which was a failure both at the box office and with
filmgoers who couldn't stomach the idea of the little blond boy from
Home Alone as a pre-teen psychopath. In casting Wood as the good to
Culkin's evil, the film helped further establish the kind of characters
Wood was to become known for: thoughtful, well meaning, and perhaps a bit
confused. Wood's next film, the same year's The Adventures of Huck Finn,
provided a departure from this type of character, but The War (1994) with
Kevin Costner marked something of a return. Also in 1994, Wood had the title
role in North, a film remarkable for the volume of bad reviews and bad box
office it received, but also for the fact that practically every bad
review contained a positive assessment of Wood's performance.
Wood's follow-up, the 1996 Flipper, was hardly an improvement, but
the subsequent critical and financial success of Ang Lee's The
Ice Storm (1997) provided a positive development in the young
actor's career. As the soulfully dazed and confused Mikey Carver,
Wood gave a portrayal remarkable for its rendering of the thoughtfulness
and exquisite hopelessness inherent in the character. 1998's Deep
Impact and The Faculty did not allow Wood the same degree of character
development, but were great financial successes and further stepping
stones in Wood's evolution from winsome child star to impressive young
actor.
Following a brief turn as the boyfriend of a wannabe hip-hop groupie
in James Toback's problematic Black & White (1999), Wood further
evolved as an actor in Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings,
the first installation of director Peter Jackson's adaptation of J.R.R.
Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. His most hotly anticipated project,
the 2001 film gave Wood top billing as Frodo Baggin alongside a glittering
cast that included Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett, and Liv Tyler. That same
year the young actor could be seen in less mystical surroundings courtesy
of Ed Burns' Ash Wednesday, a crime drama that also featured Oliver Platt
and Rosario Dawson.
Biography from allmovieguide.com
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