Natalie Wood
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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.
Known for
Credits
The Searchers (1956)
as Debbie Edwards
Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
as Helen Gurley Brown
Rebel Without a Cause (1955)
as Judy
West Side Story (1961)
as Maria
The Great Race (1965)
as Maggie Dubois
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
as Susan Walker
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)
as Carol Sanders
Splendor in the Grass (1961)
as Wilma "Deanie" Loomis
Brainstorm (1983)
as Karen Brace
The Candidate (1972)
as Natalie Wood
Meteor (1979)
as Tatiana Donskaya
Gypsy (1962)
as Louise Hovick/Gypsy Rose Lee
Driftwood (1947)
as Jenny Hollingsworth
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
as Anna Muir as a Child
The Silver Chalice (1954)
as Helena as a Girl
Hollywood: No Sex, Please! (2018)
Actor
Howard (2018)
as Maria (archive footage)
Inside Daisy Clover (1966)
as Daisy Clover
Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
as Angie Rossini
Penelope (1966)
as Penelope
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
as Marjorie Morgenstern
Cash McCall (1960)
as Lory Austen
This Property Is Condemned (1966)
as Alva Starr
Willie & Phil (1980)
as Herself
Hart to Hart (1979)
as Movie Star
The Burning Hills (1956)
as Maria-Christina Colton
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017)
as Self (archive footage, uncredited)
The Affair (1973)
as Courtney Patterson
One Desire (1955)
as Seely Dowder
Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)
as Self (archive)
Our Very Own (1950)
as Penny Macaulay
Peeper (1975)
as Ellen Prendergast
The Jackpot (1950)
as Phyllis Lawrence
Death In Hollywood (1990)
Actor
Bombers B-52 (1957)
as Lois Brennan
Kings Go Forth (1958)
as Monique Blair
The Moon Is Down (1943)
as Carrie (uncredited)
Tomorrow Is Forever (1946)
as Margaret Ludwig
Happy Land (1943)
as Little Girl Dropping Ice Cream Cone (uncredited)
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Trumbull Land (2018)
as Self (archive footage)
The Blue Veil (1951)
as Stephanie Rawlins
The Star (1952)
as Gretchen
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady (1982)
Actor
All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
as Sarah "Salome" Davis
Father Was a Fullback (1949)
as Ellen Cooper
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths (1990)
as (archive footage)
The Last Married Couple in America (1980)
as Mari Thompson
James Dean: The First American Teenager (1975)
as Self
The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
as Self (archive)
Brunes et Blondes (2010)
as Self
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas (2026)
as Debbie Edwards - Age 15 (archive footage) (uncredited)
The James Dean Story (1957)
as Self
Paul Newman: The Restless (2023)
as Self
The Green Promise (1949)
as Susan Matthews
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC (1988)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
James Dean Remembered (1974)
as Self
Just for You (1952)
as Barbara Blake
Never a Dull Moment (1950)
as Nan Hayward
The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
as Sally Burke
Hollywood’s Children (1982)
as Self (archive footage)
Playmates (1954)
as Monica
Dominick Dunne: After the Party (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948)
as Eufraznee 'Bean' McGill
Dear Brat (1951)
as Pauline Baxter
No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
as Polly Scott
The Girl He Left Behind (1956)
as Susan Daniels
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant' (1956)
as Self
The Bride Wore Boots (1946)
as Carol Warren
Return of the Dead (1954)
as Renee Marchand
A Cry in the Night (1956)
as Elizabeth
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1976)
as Margaret
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's (2009)
as (archive footage)
The Memory of Eva Ryker (1980)
as Eva Ryker / Claire Ryker
Chicken Every Sunday (1949)
as Ruth Hefferen
Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool (1954)
as Lucy
Rediscovering a Rebel (1996)
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975)
as Self
Feathertop (1955)
as Polly Gookin
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood (2009)
as Self (archive footage)
Natalie Wood: An American Murder Mystery (2018)
Actor
The Deadly Riddle (1956)
as Lady Marian
The Cracker Factory (1979)
as Cassie Barrett
The Wild Bunch (1955)
as Louise
Heidi (1955)
as Klara Sesseman
Too Old for Dolls (1955)
as Polly Ramsay
How Real is 'The Star'? (2005)
as Self (archive footage)
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents (2005)
as Herself (uncredited)