Evan Rachel Wood

Wood met British actor Jamie Bell while making a video for Green Day’s song ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’ in 2005 and started dating him. However, they ended their relationship, a year later.

From 2007 to 2010, Wood had an on-and-off relationship with Marilyn Manson. After a breakup, they re-united and became engaged, but decided to call it off.

In 2011, Wood and Jamie Bell got back together after she ended her relationship with Manson. They married the following year. They have one son. The couple announced in May 2014 that they had separated.

Evan Rachel Wood was born to Ira David Wood III and Sara Lynn Moore. Both her parents are actors. Her father is also the Executive Director of ‘Theatre in the Park’.

She has three brothers: Ira David Wood IV, Dana Wood and Thomas Wood. They were all involved in ‘Theatre in the Park’. Her aunt, Carol Winstead Wood, was a production designer in Hollywood.

Her father cast her as an infant in his 1987 adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’. She was cast in ‘Ghost of Christmas Past’, and as Helen Keller in ‘The Miracle Worker’, alongside her mother.

She studied at ‘Cary Elementary’, a public school in Cary, North Carolina. She then continued her studies at home, earning her high school diploma at the age of 15.

Wood began acting at the age of seven. In 1996, her parents separated. She moved with her mother to Los Angeles. She was cast in ‘Once and Again’ as Jessie Sammler.

She played a young girl befriending a mentally ill man in ‘Digging to China’ starring Kevin Bacon and Mary Stuart Masterson. It won the ‘Children’s Jury Award’ at the ‘Chicago International Children’s Film Festival’.

In 1998, she was cast in the fantasy film ‘Practical Magic’ directed by Griffin Dunne, as the niece of the sisters portrayed by Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman.

In 2002, Wood won a lead role in ‘Little Secrets’ as Emily Lindstrom, an aspiring concert violinist. She won a nomination for ‘Best Leading Young Actress’ at the ‘Young Artist Awards’.

She acted opposite Cate Blanchett and Tommy Lee Jones in ‘The Missing’, as their kidnapped daughter in 2003. She also acted in the ‘Got Murder?’ episode of the TV series ‘CSI: Crime Scene Investigation’.

Wood’s 2003 role in ‘Thirteen’ as Tracy Freeland caught in the web of drugs, sex and crime, won her nominations for a ‘Golden Globe Award’ and a ‘Screen Actors Guild Award’ for ‘Best Actress’.

In ‘Pretty Persuasion’, she played Kimberly Joyce, a crafty, sexually precocious high school student. The movie was nominated for the 2005 Grand Jury Prize in the Sundance Film Festival.

‘Across the Universe’, a movie arranged to The Beatles’ songs, saw her play Lucy. Shot in Liverpool, New York City, and Vietnam, the movie was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Academy Award.