Evan Rachel Wood Biography

Evan Rachel Wood
Biography

Birth Name
Evan Rachael Wood
Date of birth (location)
7 September 1987
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA

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Dynamite comes in small packages. Evan Rachel Wood was born on September 7, 1987, in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her father is Ira David Wood III, and her mother is Sara Lynn Moore. She has two older brothers: Dana, a musician, and 'Ira David Wood' . Evan and her brothers sometimes performed at Theatre In The Park in Raleigh, NC, where her father is the executive director and founder of the theatre.

At age 7, Evan lost out to Kirsten Dunst for the child lead in "Interview with the Vampire" (1994). 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 the big screen film Practical Magic (1998). Her latest movie is the comedy S1m0ne (2002) in which she stars as Al Pacino's daughter, next up is Thirteen (2003), with Holly Hunter.

She was trained in dance. She loves to sing, swim, rollerblade and go horseback riding. She has a black belt in Tae Kwon Do.