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USA (1981 -). Actor norteamericano nacido el 28 de Enero de 1981 en Cedar Rapids, IA. Hailed as Hollywood's most gifted child actor of the 1990s, this handsome, dark-haired performer with large protuberant eyes began as a model and moved on to commercials and TV-movies before starting a successful career in features. Wood entered film with small parts in BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II (1989) and INTERNAL AFFAIRS (1990). His talent only began to manifest with a charming turn as the young grandson of immigrants (and alter ego of writer-director Barry Levinson) growing up in Baltimore in the autobiographical family saga AVALON (1990). Wood further demonstrated his dramatic chops with a starring role in VUELO A LA LIBERTAD (1992), a harrowing fantasy-tinged tale of child abuse. He again occupied center stage in Disney's adaptation of the Mark Twain classic LAS AVENTURAS DE HUCK FINN (1993). Wood also worked in TV, notably in Witness (1993), a Showtime 30-Minute Movie, wherein he played a Jewish boy who haunts a Nazi soldier (Gary Sinise) who takes Jews to the gas chamber. Wood more than held his own against the once burgeoning boy icon Macaulay Culkin in the clever and chilling EL ANGEL MALVADO (1993). Playing a troubled son who recently lost his mother to illness, Wood gave an impressively nuanced performance encompassing loss, anger, and growing anxiety about the sadistic machinations of his twisted yet outwardly angelic cousin. He shifted gears to outlandish comedy as the star of Rob Reiner's REGRESO A CASA (1994) playing an apparently perfect child who, feeling underappreciated by his distracted parents (Jason Alexander and Julia Louis-Dreyfuss), becomes a free agent. Young North encountered an all-star supporting cast as he wandered the globe in search of more appropriate parents in this critically lambasted and commercially orphaned feature. Wood gained fine notices opposite Kevin Costner in Jon Avnet's EL ARBOL DE LOS SUEÑOS (1994), but the film did only mild box-office.
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