Actress Evan Rachel Wood was born on September 7, 1987, in North Carolina, USA. Born into a performing family, including a stage director, she and her two older brothers performed in her father's stage productions from a young age. She was considered for the role of Claudia, a vampire girl, in the 1994 film "Interview with the Vampire," which won three Academy Awards, but the role ultimately went to Kirsten Dunst. She subsequently appeared in television dramas as a child actress. After her parents divorced in 1997, she moved to Los Angeles with her mother and began her acting career. She starred opposite Kevin Bacon in the 1998 film "With You." Following her film debut, she continued to appear in numerous films and television dramas. In 2003, Rachel played the impressionable 13-year-old Tracy in "Thirteen." Her performance was highly praised by critics and she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. She completely transformed her reputation as a beautiful child actress and began to flourish as a young actress attracting attention in Hollywood.

Meanwhile, in her personal life, at the age of 19, she made headlines when she dated popular rock singer Marilyn Manson, and they even announced their engagement, but the two soon broke up. In 2012, she married actor Jamie Bell, with whom she had been in a relationship for some time, and the couple had a son together, but they also broke up two years later.