Editing Elijah Wood (section)

==Personal life==

Wood and his partner, the Danish film producer Mette-Marie Kongsved, have two children together, a son (b. 2019) and a daughter (b. 2022).<ref>{{cite news |last=Hearon |first=Sarah |date=February 19, 2020 |url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/news/elijah-wood-mette-marie-kongsved-quietly-welcomed-baby-no-1/ |title=Elijah Wood and Mette-Marie Kongsved Quietly Welcomed Their 1st Child Together |work=[[Us Weekly]] |access-date=June 3, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Kirkpatrick |first=Emily |date=2023-03-28 |title=Elijah Wood Reveals He and Partner Mette-Marie Kongsved Welcomed Their Second Child Last Year |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2023/03/elijah-wood-mette-marie-kongsved-welcome-baby-girl-last-year-second-child |access-date=2023-03-29 |magazine=Vanity Fair}}<!--there was an engagement ring but marriage is not confirmed in this source--></ref>

Wood has a tattoo of the Elvish [[Sindarin]] word "nine", written in Tolkien's [[constructed script]] of [[Tengwar]], below his waist on the right side. It refers to his character as one of the nine members of the [[Fellowship of the Ring (characters)|Fellowship of the Ring]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue348/interview.html |title=The stars of The Lord of the Rings trilogy reach their journey's end |last=Lee |first=Patrick |website=SciFi.com |access-date=May 31, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070306100400/http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue348/interview.html |archive-date=March 6, 2007}}</ref>

In May 2006, Wood was ranked at No. 7 on ''[[Autograph Collector Magazine]]''{{'s}} list of the "10 Best Hollywood Autograph Signers."<ref name="msnbc">{{cite news |title=Johnny Depp Best Autograph Signer; Cameron Diaz Worst |work=[[Fox News]] |url= https://www.foxnews.com/story/johnny-depp-best-autograph-signer-cameron-diaz-worst |date=May 13, 2006 |access-date=August 19, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210820000844/https://www.foxnews.com/story/johnny-depp-best-autograph-signer-cameron-diaz-worst |archive-date=August 20, 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On April 23, 2010, in a charitable gesture, Wood visited the Chilean town of [[Curepto]], one of the hardest hit by the [[2010 Chile earthquake|8.8 magnitude earthquake]] that struck on February 27, 2010. He made personal visits to many of the victims and was accompanied by the First Lady of Chile, [[Cecilia Morel]].<ref>{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707005838/http://www.3tv.cl/index.php?m=video&v=11498 |title= Elijah Wood visita a los damnificados del terremoto en Curepto |date=April 23, 2010 |work=[[:es:3TV|3TV]] |url=http://www.3tv.cl/index.php?m=video&v=11498 |archive-date=July 7, 2011 |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://latercera.com/contenido/661_253608_9.shtml |title=Visit the 27F earthquake victims |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713185107/http://latercera.com/contenido/661_253608_9.shtml |date=July 13, 2011 |work=[[La Tercera]] |language=es |access-date= May 5, 2015 |archive-date=July 13, 2011}}</ref>

Wood participated in the 2011 [[Occupy Wall Street]] movement.<ref>{{cite news |last=Grant |first=Drew |date=November 16, 2011 |title=Elijah Wood Rides Subway Like Plebeian, 'Today' Hosts Shocked [Video] |url=https://observer.com/2011/11/elijah-wood-rides-subway-like-plebeian-today-hosts-shocked-video/ |work=[[The Observer]] |access-date=April 18, 2021 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210418212954/https://observer.com/2011/11/elijah-wood-rides-subway-like-plebeian-today-hosts-shocked-video/ |archive-date=April 18, 2021}}</ref> He was an active supporter of [[Bernie Sanders]] during the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite tweet |url=https://twitter.com/elijahwood/status/715578848000086016 |first=Elijah |last=Wood |user=elijahwood |number=715578848000086016 |title=Join me in supporting Bernie Sanders via @actblue |access-date=April 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211031451/https://twitter.com/elijahwood/status/715578848000086016 |archive-date=February 11, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref>

During a 2016 interview with ''[[The Sunday Times]]'', Wood accused Hollywood of being organized by [[Pedophilia|pedophiles]] who preyed on children within the industry, including many of his fellow child actors. Wood credited his mother with protecting him from these "vipers" and parties "where that kind of thing was going on".<ref>{{cite news |last=Thring |first=Oliver |date=May 22, 2016 |title=Hollywood's evil secret |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/hollywoods-evil-secret-mxsb5f3zl |work=[[The Sunday Times]] |access-date=June 20, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620193555/http://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2016-05-22/news-review/hollywoods-evil-secret-mxsb5f3zl |archive-date=June 20, 2016}}</ref> After the interview made international headlines, Wood clarified that he had "no firsthand experience or observation of the topic" and that his comments had been partly based on the documentary ''[[An Open Secret]]'' that he had seen.<ref>{{cite news |last=Victor |first=Daniel |date=May 24, 2016 |title=Elijah Wood Clarifies Comments on Hollywood Pedophilia |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/movies/elijah-wood-hollywood-child-star-pedophilia.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 29, 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527144259/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/25/movies/elijah-wood-hollywood-child-star-pedophilia.html |archive-date=May 27, 2016}}</ref>