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Known For
Acting
Birthday
July 20, 1938
Died
November 29, 1981
Place of Birth
San Francisco, California, USA
Also Known As
- Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko
- Natasha Gurdin
- ナタリー・ウッド
- ناتالی وود
Natalie Wood
4.6 Popularity
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.
Known For
6.4
Self (archive footage)
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
2020
7.5
Self (archive footage)
Trumbull Land
2018
6.8
Maria (archive footage)
Howard
2018
5.5
Natalie Wood: An American Murder Mystery
2018
8.1
Self (archive footage)
Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime
2016
7.3
Self (archive footage)
Tab Hunter Confidential
2015
7.2
Self (archive footage)
Too Young to Die
2012
0.0
Self
Brunes et Blondes
2010
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
2009
0.0
(archive footage)
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
2009
Credits
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
as Self (archive footage)
2020
6.4
Trumbull Land
as Self (archive footage)
2018
7.5
Howard
as Maria (archive footage)
2018
6.8
Natalie Wood: An American Murder Mystery
2018
5.5
Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime
as Self (archive footage)
2016
8.1
Tab Hunter Confidential
as Self (archive footage)
2015
7.3
Too Young to Die
as Self (archive footage)
2012
7.2
Brunes et Blondes
as Self
2010
0.0
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
as Self (archive footage)
2009
0.0
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
as (archive footage)
2009
0.0
🎬
Dominick Dunne: After the Party
as Self (archive footage)
2008
7.5
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
as Herself (uncredited)
2005
0.0
Los Angeles Plays Itself
as Judy in Rebel Without A Cause (archive footage)
2004
7.6
Rediscovering a Rebel
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996
0.0
Intimate Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
1993
4.5
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
as (archive footage)
1990
5.7
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
as Self (archive footage)
1988
6.0
Brainstorm
as Karen Brace
1983
6.3
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
6.0
Hollywood’s Children
as Self (archive footage)
1982
0.0
Willie & Phil
as Herself
1980
4.1
The Memory of Eva Ryker
as Eva Ryker / Claire Ryker
1980
6.0
The Last Married Couple in America
as Mari Thompson
1980
4.2
🎬
From Here to Eternity
as Karen Holmes
1980
2.3
Meteor
as Tatiana Donskaya
1979
5.1
Hart to Hart
as Movie Star
1979
10.0
The Cracker Factory
as Cassie Barrett
1979
9.5
From Here to Eternity
as Karen Holmes
1979
6.8
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
as Margaret
1976
4.3
Laurence Olivier Presents
as Margaret
1976
7.0
Peeper
as Ellen Prendergast
1975
4.9
James Dean: The First American Teenager
as Self
1975
6.0
Switch
as Cruise Ship Passenger (uncredited)
1975
6.7
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
as Self
1975
6.4
Dinah!
as Self
1974
6.7
James Dean Remembered
as Self
1974
0.0
The Affair
as Courtney Patterson
1973
3.2
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
as Self
1973
6.3
The Candidate
as Natalie Wood
1972
6.5
🎬
V.I.P. Schaukel
as Self
1971
7.5
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
as Carol Sanders
1969
6.2
The Dick Cavett Show
as Self - Guest
1968
6.8
Penelope
as Penelope
1966
5.4
This Property Is Condemned
as Alva Starr
1966
6.4
Inside Daisy Clover
as Daisy Clover
1966
5.6
The Great Race
as Maggie Dubois
1965
7.1
Sex and the Single Girl
as Helen Gurley Brown
1964
6.4
Love with the Proper Stranger
as Angie Rossini
1963
6.8
Gypsy
as Louise Hovick/Gypsy Rose Lee
1962
6.3
The Merv Griffin Show
as Self
1962
6.2
West Side Story
as Maria
1961
7.2
The Mike Douglas Show
as Self
1961
5.4
Splendor in the Grass
as Wilma “Deanie” Loomis
1961
7.4
All the Fine Young Cannibals
as Sarah "Salome" Davis
1960
5.3
Cash McCall
as Lory Austen
1960
6.2
Kings Go Forth
as Monique Blair
1958
6.0
Marjorie Morningstar
as Marjorie Morgenstern
1958
6.2
Bombers B-52
as Lois Brennan
1957
5.6
The James Dean Story
as Self
1957
5.4
The Girl He Left Behind
as Susan Daniels
1956
3.5
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
as Self
1956
6.0
The Burning Hills
as Maria-Christina Colton
1956
6.0
A Cry in the Night
as Elizabeth
1956
5.2
The Deadly Riddle
as Lady Marian
1956
0.0
The Searchers
as Debbie Edwards
1956
7.7
Feathertop
as Polly Gookin
1955
0.0
Rebel Without a Cause
as Judy
1955
7.5
Heidi
as Klara Sesseman
1955
0.0
🎬
Kings Row
as Renee Gyllinson
1955
0.0
One Desire
as Seely Dowder
1955
5.9
Too Old for Dolls
as Polly Ramsay
1955
0.0
The Wild Bunch
as Louise
1955
0.0
The Silver Chalice
as Helena as a Girl
1954
4.4
Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool
as Lucy
1954
0.0
Studio 57
1954
0.0
Return of the Dead
as Renee Marchand
1954
5.0
Playmates
as Monica
1954
0.0
Mayor of the Town
as Mayor's Niece
1954
0.0
The Pride of the Family
as Ann Morrison
1953
5.0
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
General Electric Theater
as Lucy
1953
6.4
General Electric Theater
as Polly Gookin
1953
6.4
The Star
as Gretchen
1952
7.2
Just for You
as Barbara Blake
1952
4.8
🎬
Four Star Playhouse
as Louise
1952
6.7
The Rose Bowl Story
as Sally Burke
1952
3.0
🎬
Chevron Theatre
as Monica Everton
1952
10.0
The Blue Veil
as Stephanie Rawlins
1951
6.6
Dear Brat
as Pauline Baxter
1951
3.3
The Jackpot
as Phyllis Lawrence
1950
6.9
The Jack Benny Program
as Natalie Wood
1950
7.8
Never a Dull Moment
as Nan Hayward
1950
5.4
Our Very Own
as Penny Macaulay
1950
5.4
No Sad Songs for Me
as Polly Scott
1950
6.2
The Bob Hope Show
as Self
1950
7.0
What's My Line?
as Self - Mystery Guest
1950
6.9
Father Was a Fullback
as Ellen Cooper
1949
6.0
The Green Promise
as Susan Matthews
1949
6.0
Chicken Every Sunday
as Ruth Hefferen
1949
6.0
Studio One
as Jen Potter
1948
5.0
The Ed Sullivan Show
as Self
1948
6.8
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
as Eufraznee 'Bean' McGill
1948
4.7
Driftwood
as Jenny Hollingsworth
1947
6.1
Miracle on 34th Street
as Susan Walker
1947
7.4
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
as Anna Muir as a Child
1947
7.5
The Bride Wore Boots
as Carol Warren
1946
5.9
Tomorrow Is Forever
as Margaret Ludwig
1946
6.1
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Winner
1944
7.2
Happy Land
as Little Girl Dropping Ice Cream Cone (uncredited)
1943
6.2
The Moon Is Down
as Carrie (uncredited)
1943
6.7