Meet Mette-Marie Kongsved, who Elijah Wood secretly married on New Year’s Eve: the Danish film producer, who has 2 children with The Lord of the Rings star, is the ex-wife of director E.L. Katz

Jan 12 , 2025

Elijah Wood may have tied the knot with long time partner Mette-Marie Kongsved on New Year’s Eve. Photo: @Crumpemag/X

The couple met on the set of the 2017 film I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, and collaborated most recently on 2024’s adventure comedy-drama Bookworm

Elijah Wood is off the market for good and has no plans of hiding it. According to TMZ, The Lord of the Rings star apparently exchanged vows with his long-time love Mette-Marie Kongsved on New Year’s Eve in Sweden and is already flaunting his newly-wed status in public.

Elijah Wood is calling his long-time partner Mette-Marie Kongsved his “wife” amid rumours that they made their vows last year. Photo: @gala/X

During an appearance on the Inside of You podcast with Michael Rosenbaum, Wood lovingly referred to Kongsved as his “wife”, sharing how thankful he was for their family. “I’m beyond grateful for my family, my kids and my wife. Like, they are such an extension of me,” he gushed.

So, just who is Mette-Marie Kongsved?

Mette-Marie Kongsved is a producer

Elijah Wood has collaborated with wife Mette-Marie Kongsved on a couple of well-known films. Photo: @ScreenUKInd/X

Kongsved is a Danish producer, best known for the 2017 neo-noir comedy I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. The film went on to win the Grand Jury Prize at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival in the US dramatic competition category. Other popular works produced by Kongsved include Get Duked! (2019), Come to Daddy (2019) and Nine Days (2020). Last year, she collaborated with her future husband on the film Bookworm.

How long has Mette-Marie Kongsved been with Elijah Wood?

Elijah Wood and Mette-Marie Kongsved have two children together. Photo: @innerbeautycha/X

According to Vanity Fair, Kongsved met Wood on the set of I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, in which he played one of the major roles. It wasn’t until 2018 that the pair sparked romance rumours after being photographed hand-in-hand in Pasadena, Los Angeles. A year later, they made their relationship public by attending the Rodarte FW19 fashion show together. That same year, they were rumoured to be engaged and then welcomed their first child, son Evan. They had a daughter in 2022.