We all just kinda did everything we thought we were supposed to do and girls dated the guys they were supposed to and did things with the guys they were supposed to.

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Wood provided the voice of an alien named Mala a mechanically inclined free-thinker in Battle for Terra a 2008 computer-animated science fiction film about a peaceful alien planet that faces destruction from colonization by the displaced remainder of the human race. Her paternal aunt Carol Winstead Wood was a Hollywood production designer. Of her performance one critic wrote "Once her character stops stonewalling her father and hears him out Wood provides a fine foil for Rourke in their turbulent scenes together.

She made her début as a leading film actress in Little Secrets (2002) and became well known after her transition to a more adult-oriented Golden Globe-nominated role in the teen drama film Thirteen (2003). " Her personal life particularly her relationship with Marilyn Manson to whom Evan Rachel Wood was engaged until August 2010 has attracted press attention.