Evan Rachel Wood (born September 7, 1987) is an American actress and singer.
She began acting in the 1990s, appearing in several television series, including American Gothic (1995–96) and Once and Again (1999–2002). Wood made her debut as a leading film actress at the age of nine in Digging to China (1998) and became well known for her Golden Globe-nominated role as troubled, drug-addicted teenager Tracy Louise Freeland in the teen drama film Thirteen (2003).
Wood continued acting mostly in independent films, including Pretty Persuasion (2005), Down in the Valley (2006), Running with Scissors (2006), and in the jukebox musical romantic drama film Across the Universe (2007).
Since 2008, Wood has appeared in more mainstream films, including The Wrestler (2008), Whatever Works (2009) and The Ides of March (2011). She has also returned to television, playing the supporting role of Queen Sophie-Anne on True Blood from 2009 to 2011 and playing Kate Winslet’s character’s daughter in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), a role for which she was nominated for the Golden Globe and Emmy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She also voiced the fairy princess Marianne in the musical fantasy comedy film Strange Magic (2015).
As of 2016, she plays the sentient android Dolores Abernathy in the HBO television series Westworld, for which she won a Critics' Choice Award and earned a Golden Globe nomination.
In 2016, Wood made her band debut called “Rebel and a Basketcase” after performing with Zach Villa, an actor and multi-instrumentalist, in a John Hughes Cabaret with the company For The Record where the actors re-enacted scenes from the director’s most famous films while singing songs from the soundtracks.
Wood played the role of Basketcase and Villa played the role of Rebel – both in reference to The Breakfast Club characters originated by Ally Sheedy and Judd Nelson.
The duo loved the idea of working together musically stemmed from both artists’ desire to keep pretending to be in a John Hughes movie – so they started a band.
