Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress. She 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.
She began acting in the 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic and Once and Again. She made her debut as a leading film actress at the age of nine in Digging to China and garnered acclaim for her Golden Globe-nominated role as the troubled teenager Tracy Freeland in the teen drama film Thirteen. She continued acting mostly in independent films, including Pretty Persuasion, Down in the Valley, Running with Scissors, and Across the Universe.
Since 2008, Wood has appeared in more mainstream films, including The Wrestler, Whatever Works, The Ides of March, and she portrayed Madonna in
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story. She returned to television the following year in the recurring role of Sophie-Anne Leclerq, the vampire Queen of Louisiana, on True Blood from 2009 to 2011.