
Natalie Wood
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.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 0.272 |
Birthday | 1938-07-20 |
Place of Birth | San Francisco, California, USA |
Also Known As | Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, Natasha Gurdin, ナタリー・ウッド, ناتالی وود, |

1955

Rebel Without a Cause
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1961

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1956

The Searchers
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1947

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1965

The Great Race
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1964

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1979

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Inside Daisy Clover
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1958

Kings Go Forth
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Our Very Own
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1957

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1956

The Burning Hills
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1975

Peeper
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1947

Driftwood
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1949

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1960

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1951

The Blue Veil
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1955

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1948

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1956

The Girl He Left Behind
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1975

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1951

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1950

Never a Dull Moment
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Penelope
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1950

No Sad Songs for Me
6.2/6
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1949

Chicken Every Sunday
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1946

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1957

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Howard
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The Affair
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1949

The Green Promise
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1979

The Cracker Factory
9.5/2
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1943

The Moon Is Down
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Hart to Hart
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1946

Tomorrow Is Forever
6.1/35
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1969

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1952

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1943

Happy Land
6.2/3
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1996

The Celluloid Closet
7.2/103
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1954

The Silver Chalice
4.4/34
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1980

The Memory of Eva Ryker
6/1
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1976

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5/5
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1975

James Dean: The First American Teenager
6/1
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1956

New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
6/1
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1972

The Candidate
6.5/158
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1974

James Dean Remembered
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Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
6.4/30
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2015

Tab Hunter Confidential
7.4/56
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Trumbull Land
7.6/7
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1950

The Jackpot
6.9/17
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2010

Brunes et Blondes
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1980

Willie and Phil
4.4/8
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1982

Hollywood’s Children
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1982

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6/1
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1954

Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool
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2009

Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
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1955

Too Old for Dolls
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1954

Playmates
0/0
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1955

The Wild Bunch
0/0
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1954

Return of the Dead
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1955

Feathertop
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1956

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