56 Facts About Evan Rachel Wood

Evan Rachel Wood was born on September 7,1987 and is an American actress.

Evan Rachel Wood is the recipient of a Critics' Choice Television Award as well as nominations for three Primetime Emmy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

Evan Rachel Wood began acting in the 1990s, appearing in several television series, including Once and Again.

Evan Rachel Wood expanded to films at the age of nine in Digging to China and garnered praise for her Golden Globe-nominated role as a troubled teenager in the drama film Thirteen.

Evan Rachel Wood returned to television in the recurring role of Sophie-Anne Leclerq on True Blood from 2009 to 2011.

Evan Rachel Wood portrayed the title character's malicious daughter in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Evan Rachel Wood starred as sentient android Dolores Abernathy in the HBO series Westworld, for which she won a Critics' Choice Award and earned Golden Globe and Emmy Award nominations.

Evan Rachel Wood had a voice role in the Disney animated film Frozen II, and portrayed Madonna in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story.

Evan Rachel Wood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, on September 7,1987.

Evan Rachel Wood's mother, Sara Lynn Moore, is an actress, director, and acting coach.

Evan Rachel Wood's 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.

Evan Rachel Wood's brother, Ira David Evan Rachel Wood IV, is an actor; she has two other brothers, Dana and Thomas, and a sister named Aden.

Evan Rachel Wood's paternal aunt, Carol Winstead Wood, was a production designer in Hollywood.

Evan Rachel 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 just a few months old.

Evan Rachel Wood subsequently played the Ghost of Christmas Past in several productions there, and starred as Helen Keller alongside her mother in The Miracle Worker, under her father's direction.

Evan Rachel Wood attended Cary Elementary School in Cary, North Carolina, where she starred in its production of The Little Mermaid.

Evan Rachel Wood attended public school in California before leaving at age 12 for homeschooling.

Evan Rachel Wood received her high school diploma at 15.

Evan Rachel Wood said she earned a black belt in taekwondo when she was 12, and that she participated in the AAU Junior Olympic Games.

Evan Rachel Wood began her career appearing in several made-for-television films that were shot in her native North Carolina from 1993 onwards.

Evan Rachel Wood made her acting debut at the beginning of that year in Sondra Locke's Death in Small Doses.

Evan Rachel Wood had recurring roles in the television series American Gothic and Profiler, receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Young Actress in a TV Drama Series at the 21st Young Artist Awards for the latter.

From 1999 to 2002, Evan Rachel Wood was a regular on the ABC television family drama Once and Again in the role of Jessie Sammler.

Evan Rachel Wood's 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.

Evan Rachel Wood made her teenage debut as a leading film actress in 2001's Little Secrets, directed by Blair Treu, where she played 14-year-old aspiring concert violinist Emily Lindstrom.

Evan Rachel Wood next played a supporting role in Andrew Niccol's 2002 satirical science fiction film Simone, which starred Al Pacino.

That same year, Evan Rachel Wood was recognized as One to Watch at the Young Hollywood Awards.

Evan Rachel Wood's performance garnered critical acclaim, earning her Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for Best Lead Actress.

Evan Rachel Wood similarly appeared, along with eight other teen actresses, on the cover of Vanity Fairs Young Hollywood issue in July 2003.

In 2005, Evan Rachel Wood appeared opposite Kevin Costner and Joan Allen in the Mike Binder-directed The Upside of Anger, a well-reviewed film in which Evan Rachel Wood played Lavender "Popeye" Wolfmeyer, one of four sisters dealing with their father's absence.

Also in 2005, Evan Rachel Wood starred in the music videos for Bright Eyes' "At the Bottom of Everything" and Green Day's "Wake Me Up When September Ends".

Also in 2006, Evan Rachel Wood appeared with an all-star ensemble cast as Natalie Finch in the comedy-drama film Running with Scissors.

Evan Rachel Wood had roles in two films released in September 2007.

Evan Rachel Wood provided the voice of an alien named Mala in Battle for Terra, a 2007 animated science fiction film about a peaceful alien planet that faces destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human race.

In 2007, Evan Rachel Wood starred in the 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.

Evan Rachel Wood played the younger version of Uma Thurman's character, Diana.

Evan Rachel Wood later expressed regret for taking the role and that she would not work with Allen again.

That same year, Evan Rachel Wood was named Young Hollywood Superstar at the Young Hollywood Awards.

Evan Rachel 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.

Evan Rachel Wood had a role in the film The Conspirator, which premiered at Ford's Theatre in Washington, DC, in April 2011, directed by Robert Redford.

Evan Rachel Wood portrayed the title character's daughter in the 2011 HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award and the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress.

Evan Rachel Wood played Gabi in the 2013 psychological romantic thriller film Charlie Countryman with Shia LaBeouf and Rupert Grint.

Evan Rachel Wood voiced Marianne in the 2015 film Strange Magic.

In 2016, Evan Rachel Wood began starring as sentient android Dolores Abernathy in the HBO science fiction Western series Westworld.

Evan Rachel Wood later featured in Kajillionaire in 2020, and Backspot in 2023.

In 2012, Evan Rachel 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.

Evan Rachel Wood performed as electro-pop duo, Rebel and a Basketcase, with multi-instrumentalist Zach Villa in 2016.

Evan Rachel Wood + Zane put out their first CD, called Dreams, in December 2022.

Evan Rachel Wood appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in 2019 when "Show Yourself", the duet she sang alongside Idina Menzel from the Frozen II soundtrack, debuted on the chart at number 99.

Evan Rachel Wood dated English actor Jamie Bell between 2005 and 2006.

In January 2007, her relationship with Marilyn Manson became public; Evan Rachel Wood was the inspiration for Manson's song "Heart-Shaped Glasses " and appeared in the song's music video.

In 2011, Evan Rachel Wood publicly disclosed that she is bisexual, and rekindled her relationship with Jamie Bell.

Bell said he was deprived of contact with him when Evan Rachel Wood moved from Los Angeles to Nashville; Evan Rachel Wood claimed she did this to protect the child from former fiance Marilyn Manson.

In February 2021, Evan Rachel Wood named Manson as her alleged abuser on Instagram, where four other women made similar allegations against him.

In March 2022, HBO released the docuseries Phoenix Rising, focusing on these allegations and the circumstances that led Evan Rachel Wood, who was 18 at the time, to enter a relationship with the then-37-year-old Manson.

In May 2023, a judge dismissed a part of the lawsuit that involved an FBI letter, which Evan Rachel Wood denied forging, and another that alleged Evan Rachel Wood and another woman named as a defendant, Illma Gore, created a checklist for other women to use to accuse Manson of abuse.