Natalie Wood

Natalie Wood Profile Biography Artist.
Name at birth: Natalia Zakharenko


Natalie Wood became a young child celeb when she played Susan Walker, the miscroscopic girl who doubts Santa Claus in 1947's Miracle on 34th Street. In their own teens she remained a star because of movies including Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without having a Cause (1955, with James Dean) as well as the Searchers (1956, with John Wayne). On the watch's screen her limpid brown eyes gave her the design of a troubled girl next door, mixing subtle intelligence with sex appeal. In her own adult roles she was adept at comedy and also serious drama; she was critically acclaimed in Splendor in the Grass (1961, with Warren Beatty), as Maria in West Side Story (1961) and in Inside Daisy Clover (1965). She drowned three decades ago off California's Catalina Island while vacationing with your ex husband Robert Wagner and actor Christopher Walken.

Extra credit: Wood was married twice to Wagner -- from 1957-62 and from 1974 until her death... She actually is the mother of actress Natasha Gregson Wagner, her daughter with producer Richard Gregson... Wood was 5'2" tall... Peter Bogdanovich directed the 2004 TV movie The Mystery of Natalie Wood, with actress Justine Waddell as Wood... As outlined by a 2001 biography of Wood by Suzanne Finstad, Wood was created Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko; her father changed family members surname to Gurdin many years later, and Natalia was presented her stage name of Natalie Wood by Bill Goetz, producer of her 1946 film Tomorrow Is Forever... Wood's birth name may also be given as Natasha, the Russian nickname for Natalia.

Wood appears with Marilyn Monroe in your loop Autopsy by Noguchi, with Beach Boy Dennis Wilson within our loop Death by Yacht, along with botanist Luther Burbank in your loop around the Santa Rosa Connection.