Natalie Wood

Known for ActingBorn 1938-07-20Died 1981-11-29San 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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Cracker Factory

People's Choice Awards

Hollywood’s Children

Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime

The Memory of Eva Ryker

Hart to Hart

James Dean Remembered

Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds

Dominick Dunne: After the Party

Studio 57

Chevron Theatre

Trumbull Land

Tab Hunter Confidential

V.I.P. Schaukel

The Jack Benny Program

Too Young to Die

The Searchers

James Dean: The First American Teenager

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

Splendor in the Grass

From Here to Eternity

Rebel Without a Cause

The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

Howard

West Side Story

Miracle on 34th Street

Laurence Olivier Presents

The Great Race

Dinah!

The Star

Death In Hollywood

Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind

Happy Land

The Jackpot

What's My Line?

The Oscars

The Bob Hope Show

The Dick Cavett Show

Switch

Love with the Proper Stranger

I'm a Stranger Here Myself

General Electric Theater

Four Star Playhouse

Golden Globe Awards

The Moon Is Down

The Ed Sullivan Show

The Blue Veil

Driftwood