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