biography of Evan Rachel Wood

Evan Rachel Wood : 

 (born September 7, 1987) is an American actress. She is the recipient of a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

She began acting in the 1990s, appearing in several television series, including Once and Again (1999–2002). She expanded to films at the age of nine in Digging to China (1997) and garnered praise for her Golden Globe-nominated role as a troubled teenager in the drama film Thirteen (2003). After starring in several independent films, Wood appeared in more mainstream films, including The Wrestler (2008), Whatever Works (2009), and The Ides of March (2011).

She returned to television in the recurring role of Sophie-Anne Leclerq on True Blood from 2009 to 2011. She appeared in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She starred as sentient android Dolores Abernathy in the HBO series Westworld (2016–2022), for which she won a Critics' Choice Award and earned Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations. Wood had a voice role in the Disney animated film Frozen II (2019), and portrayed Madonna in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022).

Wood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on September 7, 1987.  Her mother, Sara Lynn Moore, is an actress, director, and acting coach.  Her father, Ira David Wood III, is an actor, theater director and playwright prominent in Raleigh, where he is the co-founder and executive director of a community theatre company called Theatre in the Park.^[3][4] 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 production designer in Hollywood. 

Of having a traditionally masculine given name, Wood has said: "My mother had a dream that she was gonna have a daughter with blond hair and blue eyes named Evan, so that was just my name." 

Wood was actively involved in Theatre in the Park while growing up, including an appearance in the 1987 production of her father's musical comedy adaptation of A Christmas Carol when she was a few months old. She subsequently played the Ghost of Christmas Past in several productions there, and starred as Helen Keller alongside her mother (as Anne Sullivan) in The Miracle Worker, under her father's direction. 

She attended Cary Elementary School in Cary, North Carolina, where she starred in its production of The Little Mermaid. When her parents divorced, she moved with her mother to Los Angeles in 1997 to further her acting career.  She attended public school in California before leaving at age 12 for homeschooling. She received her high school diploma at 15.  Wood said she earned a black belt in taekwondo when she was 12, and that she participated in the AAU Junior Olympic Games

About : 

Starred in The Wrestler and played a role in The Beatles-inspired film Across The Universe. Her performance in Thirteen bolstered her fame. She later starred in the HBO sci-fi series Westworld.

Before Fame : 

She began her acting career in her father's productions of Theater in the Park.

Trivia : 

She played a role in the television show American Gothic.

• She has a black belt in tae kwon do.
• Dislikes her middle name, Rachel, but kept it in her stage name so casting directors wouldn't confuse her gender.
• A survivor of a double rape and severe physical abuse, she was one of 3 women giving evidence to the U.S. Congress in Washington D.C. in support of the "Sexual Assault Survivor's Bill of Rights Act" [February 2018].
• Attempted suicide when she was 22 as she battled PTSD caused by multiple rapes and a severely abusive relationship that went on for years. She later checked herself into psychiatric hospital.
• Met her boyfriend Jamie Bell at Sundance Film Festival. While dating, they went on to shoot Green Day's music video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends", where they play a couple.
• Wood says that her character in Across the Universe (2007), whom she describes as an "old soul, street smart and ahead of her time", is close to her real-life personality. Wood also describes herself as being "laid back" and "not a party girl", citing her choice to stay away from what is considered a typical Hollywood lifestyle.
• Has a son: Jack Matfin Bell (b. July 29, 2013) with ex-husband, Jamie Bell.
• Attended junior high school in the San Fernando Valley but left because she disliked the social environment of high school. She was then home-schooled.
• Her favorite actor is Gene Wilder.
• A lifelong avid fan of David Bowie, she had the privilege of performing some of his songs with original Bowie band members Mike Garson (piano), Gerry Leonard (bass) and Earl Slick (guitar), during a posthumous Bowie tribute concert at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles (February 2018).
• Her favorite actress is Cate Blanchett.
• Trained in dance. She loves to sing, swim, rollerblade, and go horseback riding.
• Is close with the cast of Thirteen (2003) and still remains in touch with them.
• Became the highest paid actress in music video history for her appearance in boyfriend Marilyn Manson's video for "Heart-Shaped Glasses".
• Lost out on the role of Claudia in Interview with the Vampire (1994) to Kirsten Dunst.
• Was originally cast in Sucker Punch (2011), but dropped out due to scheduling conflicts with True Blood (2008).
• Turned down a major role in Mean Girls (2004) as she'd already committed to the lead in Pretty Persuasion (2005), a film with a similar plot.
• She has English, Irish, Scottish, and German ancestry. Her father is from a Christian background and her mother, who is also originally from a Christian family, converted to Judaism during her own high school years. Evan was raised "half Jewish and half Christian.".
• Is just 12 years younger than Kate Winslet, who played her mother on Mildred Pierce (2011).
• Nominated for the 2018 Emmy Award in the Lead Actress in a Drama Series category for her role as Dolores Abernathy in Westworld (2016), but lost to Claire Foy from The Crown (2016).
• Was in consideration for the role of Joan Jett in The Runaways (2010), but Kristen Stewart was cast, instead.
• Her hero is Charles Chaplin.
• Is actually older than Brady Corbet, who played her older brother in Thirteen (2003).
• Returned to work 6 months after giving birth to her son Jack to begin filming 10 Things I Hate About Life (2014).
• Has kept in touch with most of her Once and Again (1999) castmates: Mischa Barton, Julia Whelan, and Shane West.
• Sings two songs on the "School's Out" Christmas album: "Christmas Isn't Christmas" and "Silver and Gold".
• Enjoys singing.
• The face of Gucci's Guilty campaign (2010).
• Divides her time between Los Angeles and New York.
• Lives in Tennessee part-time with her son.
• Has been close friends with Este Haim since the age of 19.
• Was originally set to play Terri in Raise Your Voice (2004), but dropped out due to production changes. Hilary Duff was then cast as her replacement.
• Featured in the Miu Miu ad campaign, alongside Selma Blair and Lou Doillon.
• Younger sister of Ira David Wood IV and Dana Wood.
• In 2003, Vogue Magazine named her one of the "It Girls of Hollywood."
• Evan is very into astrology and is a Virgo sun, Pisces moon, and Sagittarius rising.
• Younger maternal half-sister is named Aden Rose Elins.
• Parents divorced in 1997.
• [2008] Was ranked #7 on Entertainment Weekly's '30 Under 30' the actress list.
• [2009] Ranked #1 in Venus Zine's 25 Under 25 ladies list.
• Ranked #31 in the 2011 Maxim list "Hot 100" women.
• Born at 1:24pm-EDT.

Family Life :  

She has three siblings, Ira IV, Aden and Dana, and her father is actor Ira David Wood III. She began dating Jamie Bell in 2005. They broke up and she began dating Marilyn Manson. After their split she and Jamie Bell got back together and they wed in 2012. They had a child in November 2013 and announced their divorce in May 2014. She was briefly engaged to Zach Villa in 2017.

Associated With : 

She was once engaged to Marilyn Manson.

 MINI BIO :  

Evan Rachel Wood was born September 7, 1987, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father, Ira David Wood III, is a theatre actor, writer and director, and her mother, Sara Wood, is an actress and acting coach. She has two older brothers--Dana Wood, a musician, and Ira David Wood IV, who has also acted. Evan and her brothers sometimes performed at Theatre In The Park in Raleigh, which her father founded and where he serves as executive director.

At the age of five she screen-tested against Kirsten Dunst for the lead role in Interview with the Vampire (1994) after a long auditioning process. She moved to Los Angeles with her mom and brother Ira in 1996 and has had success ever since, appearing in a TV series, TV movies and feature films. She has appeared in Practical Magic (1998), starred in the comedy S1m0ne (2002) as Al Pacino's daughter, and followed that with Thirteen (2003), with Holly Hunter. Her breakout role as Tracy in "Thirteen" garnered her a Golden Globes nomination for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture: Drama and for a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role. At the time of this SAG nomination, she was the youngest actress to be nominated in the Leading Role category. She received a Golden Globe and Emmy nomination for "Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie" for her portrayal of Veda Pierce in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011).

She also earned acclaim for her powerful performance as Stephanie, Mickey Rourke's estranged daughter, in Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler (2008).

Wood's first major screen role was in the 1997 film Digging to China,  as a ten-year-old girl living with her alcoholic mother, played by Cathy Moriarty, who forms an unlikely friendship with a man with intellectual disability, played by Kevin Bacon  It was shot in Western North Carolina and won the Children's Jury Award at the Chicago International Children's Film Festival.^[14] Wood remembers the role as initially hard, but that it "eventually led to her decision that acting is something she might never want to stop doing." The following year she had a role in Practical Magic, a fantasy film, for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Young Actress at the 20th Young Artist Awards.  It was followed by the 1999 made-for-television thriller Down Will Come Baby, for which she was nominated for the YoungStar Award for Best Young Actress in a Mini-Series/Made for TV Film. 

From 1999 to 2002, Wood was a regular on the ABC television family drama Once and Again in the role of Jessie Sammler. Her character dealt with her parents' divorce, anorexia, and falling in love with her best friend Katie, played by Mischa Barton,  in what became the first teen lesbian pairing on network television.^[17] For her performance as Jessie, Wood was nominated for the YoungStar Award for Best Young Actress,  and won Best Ensemble in a TV Series along with her co-stars Julia Whelan and Meredith Deane, at the 22nd Young Artist Awards.

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