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 … See more

Early roles
Wood's first appearance on screen came when she was just 4 years old in the March 1943 release of The Moon Is Down based on the See more

Tibbetts observed that Wood's characters in Rebel, Searchers, and Morningstar began to show her widening range of acting styles. Her … See more

On November 29, 1981, Wood died under mysterious circumstances at the age of 43 during the making of Brainstorm. She had been on a weekend boat trip to Santa Catalina Island on board her husband Robert Wagner's 58-foot (18 m) motoryacht, … See more

Wood was born Natalie Zacharenko in San Francisco on July 20, 1938, to Maria Zudilova (1908–1998) and second husband Nicholas Zacharenko (1912–1980). Her … See more

In the 1953–54 television season, Wood played Ann Morrison, the teenage daughter in The Pride of the Family, an ABC See more

Relationships
Wood's two marriages to actor Robert Wagner were highly publicized. They first married on December 28, 1957, in Scottsdale, Arizona, … See more