Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress, model, and singer.
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Evan Wood is the recipient of a Critics’ Choice Television Award as well as three Primetime Emmy Award nominations and three Golden Globe Award nominations for her work in film and television.
Evan Wood was born in Raleigh, North Carolina to Sara Lynn Moore, an actress, director, and acting coach, who converted to Judaism and raised her daughter in the Jewish faith and Ira David Wood III, a locally prominent actor, singer, theater director, and playwright from a Christian family; the executive director of a local community theatre company called Theatre in the Park.
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Evan Wood’s brother, Ira David Wood IV, is also an actor; she has two other brothers, Dana and Thomas, and a sister named Aden.
Evan Wood played the Ghost of Christmas Past in several productions at the theater and later starred as Helen Keller alongside her mother (who played Anne Sullivan) in a theatrical production of The Miracle Worker under her father’s direction.
Evan was awarded a black belt in taekwondo when she was 12 years old.
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