10 Movie Actors Who Can't Escape Their Most Iconic Role

6. Elijah Wood - Frodo Baggins (The Lord Of The Rings)

At the height of The Lord Of The Rings mania the fandom seemed to forget there was an actual real live actor behind the hero of Middle-Earth. To his credit, Wood has made a fairly concerted attempt to escape the potentially fatal post-Lord of the Rings bubble that threatened to engulf his career and added some solid credits to his CV since starring as legendary Frodo in Peter Jackson's popular trilogy. Such was Wood's eagerness to deflect the ignominy of typecasting that he seized roles far removed from the Baggins character, playing a football hooligan in Green Street, a creepy lab technician in Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and a downright terrifying serial killer in Sin City, even lending his voice to part of penguin Mumble in the animated film Happy Feet. But he will always be known as the noble, furry-footed Hobbit, and seems to have accepted that, reprising the role in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.