From the slopes of Mordor to the pubs and gritty pavements of London’s East End, Green Street marked quite the shift for Elijah Wood’s career.
The football hooligan film came out 17 years ago, with the actor famed for playing Frodo in the Lord of the Rings trilogy swapping his Tolkien-inspired British accent for his native American one.
In Green Street, Wood played a wrongfully expelled Harvard undergrad who moves to London, where he is introduced to the violent underworld of football hooliganism.
The 2005 movie, released on September 9 that year in the UK, explored the life of Green Street Elite, a fictional hooligan “firm” of West Ham supporters and their shocking exploits and scraps with rival fans.
While Wood was the standout cast name, there were plenty of other British mainstream actors appearing alongside the Hollywood star.
Where are the cast of Green Street today?
The likes of Charlie Hunnam, Marc Warren and Claire Forlani had poignant scenes in the £3.3 million grossing film.
Elijah Wood
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Perhaps embracing the fact that in the minds of millions of film fans, he will always be Frodo Baggins. The 41-year-old signed on in 2011 to reprise the role for the film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
It was the first of the Hobbit trilogy, which was directed by Peter Jackson, who had done the same for the original three Lord of the Ring movies.
He also had success away from the camera. He provided the voice of the main character in Happy Feet (2006), an animated film about Mumble, a penguin who can tap dance but not sing.
Wood has also founded (and closed) his own record label, has his own film production company. He has a son, born in 2019, with Danish film producer Mette-Marie Kongsved.
Charlie Hunnam
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Attracting praise for his portrayal of football hard-nut Pete Dunham, the man who introduces Wood’s character to the world of football supporter gangs, British heartthrob Charlie Hunnam has gone on to star in an impressive array of big screen moments since the award-winning film’s premiere.
He snared the main part in the critics’ favourite The Lost City of Z (2016), a feature length about a British explorer who disappeared while searching for a mysterious city in the Amazon rainforest.
The 42-year-old Geordie also played the titular role in the 2017 take on King Arthur: Legend of the Sword and played a big part in the Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro’s horror Crimson Peak.
For six years, he also played Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller in American FX biker series, Sons of Anarchy.
He has been in a relationship with artist Morgana McNelis since Green Street’s release in 2005.
Marc Warren
Perennial TV actor Marc Warren was well known to British box-watchers even before playing Wood’s brother-in-law in Green Street.
Since then, the 55-year-old has starred in all manner of television hit series, including US programme The Good Wife.
He is currently playing the lead character in the rebooted ITV drama Van der Valk, about a cynical detective based in Amsterdam.
Claire Forlani
The English actress was already on Hollywood’s radar when she played Wood’s sister in what was known Stateside as Green Street Hooligans.
She had been in films such as Mallrats and Meet Joe Black, starring alongside Brad Pitt.
Following Green Street, she bagged longstanding roles in crime dramas, including playing the recurring role as a medical examiner, Dr Peyton Driscoll, in CSI: NY.
In 2017, Forlani revealed that she “escaped” former US film producer and sex offender Harvey Weinstein five times, including twice in a hotel.
The London-born actor, aged 50, is married to Scottish actor Dougray Scott and share a son, Milo, who was born in 2014.
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