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Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood

Actor · 1938 – 1981 · San Francisco, California, USA

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.

Movies24

  • Movie6.6

    Sex and the Single Girl

    1964 · 83 votes

  • Movie7.7

    The Searchers

    1956 · 1.6K votes

  • Movie7.2

    West Side Story

    1961 · 2.1K votes

  • Movie7.5

    Rebel Without a Cause

    1955 · 1.8K votes

  • Movie7.4

    Miracle on 34th Street

    1947 · 870 votes

  • Movie7.1

    The Great Race

    1965 · 390 votes

  • Movie6.3

    Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

    1969 · 116 votes

  • Movie7.5

    Splendor in the Grass

    1961 · 315 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Howard

    2018 · 57 votes

  • Movie5.2

    Meteor

    1979 · 181 votes

  • Movie7.5

    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    1947 · 367 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Brainstorm

    1983 · 285 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Death In Hollywood

    1990 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.5

    The Candidate

    1972 · 195 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie5.4

    Penelope

    1966 · 24 votes

  • Movie6.4
  • Movie5.5
  • Movie6.3

    Gypsy

    1962 · 78 votes

  • Movie6.8
  • Movie5.6

    Inside Daisy Clover

    1966 · 60 votes

  • Movie5.8

    Bombers B-52

    1957 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.1

    The Burning Hills

    1956 · 22 votes

  • Movie5.0

Series23

  • TV7.0

    What's My Line?

    1950 · 29 votes

  • TV5.8

    The Mike Douglas Show

    1961 · 11 votes

  • TV7.0

    Golden Globe Awards

    1944 · 20 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV5.4

    Studio One

    1948 · 13 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    1948 · 23 votes

  • TV4.5

    Intimate Portrait

    1993 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Oscars

    1953 · 84 votes

  • TV7.0

    The Bob Hope Show

    1950 · 5 votes

  • TV7.0

    Dinah!

    1974 · 4 votes

  • TV5.1

    Film '72

    1971 · 8 votes

  • TV6.6

    Switch

    1975 · 11 votes

  • TV7.8

    The Jack Benny Program

    1950 · 17 votes

  • TV9.2

    People's Choice Awards

    1975 · 6 votes

  • TV7.5

    Studio 57

    1954 · 2 votes

  • TV8.0

    V.I.P. Schaukel

    1971 · 3 votes

  • TV6.3
  • TV8.0

    Chevron Theatre

    1952 · 2 votes

  • TV8.2
  • TV7.2

    Too Young to Die

    2012 · 9 votes

  • TV7.3

    From Here to Eternity

    1979 · 7 votes