Evan Rachel Wood

Evan Rachel Wood is an American actress and musician who first drew attention as a teenager for her raw performance in Thirteen (2003), and who went on to appear in Across the Universe (2007), True Blood (2008), and Westworld (2016), the science-fiction series in which she starred as the android Dolores. She came out as bisexual in a 2011 interview, later telling Rolling Stone in 2016 that she was sexually fluid and had been in love with a woman, and she has spoken candidly about the erasure and skepticism bisexual people, especially bisexual women, often face in both straight and gay communities. In 2021, Wood publicly identified musician Marilyn Manson (Brian Warner) as an abuser she said had groomed and abused her beginning when she was a teenager, allegations he has denied; her account, alongside those of several other women, became one of the most significant abuse disclosures to emerge from the music industry. Wood channeled the experience into activism, successfully lobbying the California legislature to pass the Phoenix Act, extending the statute of limitations for domestic violence prosecutions, and into the documentary Phoenix Rising (2022), which chronicles both her advocacy and her allegations against Manson.