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Born Sept. 7, 1987, in Raleigh, N.C., Evan Rachel Wood already has a list of credits as long as many adult actresses. Wood's father, Ira David Wood, is the founder and director of a Raleigh theater company, and Wood acted in a number of his productions before beginning to land roles in TV movies.At age 11, Wood landed a regular role on the TV series "The Profiler," and two years later she left that show to join the cast of "Once and Again." During this same period, she made her film debut in the Timothy Hutton-directed Digging to China.

Roles in such films as Practical Magic and Detour followed, but it was her starring role in 2003's Thirteen (which was co-written by her teenage co-star Nikki Reed) that shot her to stardom.Propelled by that success, Wood has since landed plum parts in Pretty Persuasion, The Upside of Anger and Down in the Valley. You can see her next with George Clooney and Ryan Gosling in Ides of March.

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