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Aliases: Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko , Natasha Gurdin , ナタリー・ウッド , ناتالی وود

Gender: Female

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 59

TV Involvements: 13


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Biography

Natalie Wood (née Zacharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and successfully transitioned to young adult roles. Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle on 34th Street (1947). As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a role in John Ford's The Searchers (1956). Wood starred in the musical films West Side Story (1961) and Gypsy (1962) and received nominations for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Her career continued with films such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). During the 1970s, Wood began a hiatus from film and had two daughters: one with her second husband Richard Gregson, and one with Robert Wagner, her first husband whom she married again after divorcing Gregson. She acted in only two feature films throughout the decade, but she appeared slightly more often in television productions, including a remake of From Here to Eternity (1979) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. Wood's films represented a "coming of age" for her and for Hollywood films in general. Critics have suggested that her cinematic career represents a portrait of modern American womanhood in transition, as she was one of the few to take both child roles and those of middle-aged characters. Wood died off the coast of Santa Catalina Island on November 29, 1981, at age 43, during a holiday break from the production of her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (1983) with Christopher Walken. The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements, prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, under the instruction of the coroner's office, to list her cause of death as "drowning and other undetermined factors" in 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Natalie Wood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Studio One
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Studio One

(1948) Jen Potter
Hart to Hart
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7

Hart to Hart

(1979) Movie Star
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7

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(1975) Cruise Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Intimate Portrait
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5

Intimate Portrait

(1993) Self (archive footage)
The Oscars
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7

The Oscars

(1953) Self
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
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Rebel Without a Cause
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The Searchers
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The Searchers

(1956) Debbie Edwards

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Self (archive footage)
2020 Self (archive footage)
2018 Self (archive footage)
Maria (archive footage)
2016 Self (archive footage)
2015 Self (archive footage)
2012 Self (archive footage)
2010 Self
2009 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive)
2008 Self (archive footage)
2005 Herself (uncredited)
2004 Judy in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)
1996 Self (archive footage)
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1993 Self (archive footage)
1990 (archive footage)
1988 Self (archive footage)
1983 Karen Brace
1982 N/A
Self (archive footage)
1980 Herself
Eva Ryker / Claire Ryker
Mari Thompson
Karen Holmes
1979 Tatiana Donskaya
Movie Star
Movie Star
Cassie Barrett
Karen Holmes
1976 Margaret
Margaret
1975 Ellen Prendergast
Self
Cruise Ship Passenger (uncredited)
Self
1974 Self
1973 Courtney Patterson
Self
1972 Natalie Wood
1971 Self
1969 Carol Sanders
Self (Archive Footage)
1968 Self - Guest
1966 Penelope
Alva Starr
1965 Daisy Clover
Maggie Dubois
1964 Helen Gurley Brown
Self
1963 Angie Rossini
1962 Louise Hovick/Gypsy Rose Lee
1961 Maria
Self
Wilma “Deanie” Loomis
1960 Sarah "Salome" Davis
Lory Austen
1958 Monique Blair
Marjorie Morgenstern
1957 Lois Brennan
Self
1956 Susan Daniels
Self
Maria-Christina Colton
Elizabeth
Debbie Edwards
1955 Polly Gookin
Judy
Renee Gyllinson
Seely Dowder
Polly Ramsay
Louise
1954 Helena as a Girl
Lucy
N/A
Renee Marchand
Monica
Mayor's Niece
1953 Ann Morrison
Self
Lucy
Polly Gookin
1952 Gretchen
Barbara Blake
Louise
Sally Burke
Monica Everton
1951 Stephanie Rawlins
Pauline Baxter
1950 Phyllis Lawrence
Natalie Wood
Nan Hayward
Penny Macaulay
Polly Scott
Self
Self - Mystery Guest
1949 Ellen Cooper
Susan Matthews
Ruth Hefferen
1948 Jen Potter
Self - Guest
Eufraznee 'Bean' McGill
1947 Jenny Hollingsworth
Susan Walker
Anna Muir as a Child
1946 Carol Warren
Margaret Ludwig
1943 Little Girl Dropping Ice Cream Cone (uncredited)
Carrie (uncredited)
Year Character Movie/Tv

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