Natalie Wood (born Natasha 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.
Born in San Francisco to Russian immigrant parents, Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).[6] 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).
Natalie Wood Wiki, Biography
Wood was born Natalie Zacharenko[n 1] in San Francisco, California, to Maria Zudilova (1908[a] – 1998), known variously as Mary, Marie and Musia, and her second husband, carpenter Nicholas Zakharenko (né Nikolai/Nikolay Zakharenko; 1912–1980).
Maria Zudilova was born in 1908 in Barnaul, southern Siberia. Her maternal grandfather owned soap and candle factories, as well as an estate outside the city.[16] With the start of the Russian Civil War, his family left Russia, resettling as refugees in the Chinese city of Harbin. In 1925,[13][18] Maria married Alexander Tatuloff, an Armenian mechanic.[when?] They had a daughter, Olga (1928–2015).[19] The Tatuloffs came to America by ship in 1930 and divorced in 1936.
Wood’s father, Nikolai/Nikolay (later Nicholas) Zakharenko, was born in Ussuriysk (then referred to as Nikolskoye).[21] Her paternal grandfather, a chocolate-factory worker who joined the anti-Bolshevik civilian forces during the war, was killed in a street fight in Vladivostok between the Red Army and White Russian soldiers. After that, his widow and three sons fled to Shanghai, subsequently relocating to Vancouver at the time of Wood’s paternal grandmother’s remarriage in 1927. By 1933 they moved to the US.[21] Nicholas met Maria Tatuloff, four years his senior, while she was still married to her first husband.
Wood’s parents were married in February 1938, five months before her birth. In 1942 they bought a home in Santa Rosa, where Natalie was noticed by members of a crew during a film shoot downtown. After Natalie started acting as a child, David Lewis and William Goetz, studio executives at RKO Radio Pictures, changed her last name to Wood, in reference to director Sam Wood. Wood’s only full sibling, Svetlana Gurdin (the family had changed their surname), was born in Santa Monica in 1946. Known as Lana Wood, she also became an actress.
Tibbetts observed that Wood’s characters in Rebel, Searchers, and Morningstar began to show her widening range of acting styles.[7] Her former “childlike sweetness” was now being combined with a noticeable “restlessness that was characteristic of the youth of the 1950s.”
She was leading lady to Frank Sinatra in Kings Go Forth (1958) then refused roles and was put on suspension by Warners. This lasted for a year until February 1959.[39] She returned to be leading lady to James Garner in Cash McCall (1960). After Wood appeared in the box office flop All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960), she lost momentum. Wood’s career was in a transition period, having until then consisted of roles as a child or as a teenager.
Personal life
Wood’s two marriages to actor Robert Wagner were highly publicized. They first married on December 28, 1957, in Scottsdale, Arizona when Wood was 19. On June 20, 1961, the couple announced their separation in a joint press release, and divorced ten months later on April 27, 1962.
Following this starter marriage, Wood dated Warren Beatty, Michael Caine and David Niven Jr. She also had a broken engagement in 1965 with Venezuelan shoe manufacturer Ladislav Blatnik.
On May 30, 1969, Wood married British producer Richard Gregson after dating for nearly three years. They had a daughter, Natasha (born September 29, 1970). Wood filed for divorce from Gregson on August 4, 1971, and it was finalized on April 12, 1972.[66]
After a short-lived romance with future California governor Jerry Brown, Wood resumed her relationship with Wagner at the end of January 1972. They remarried on July 16 aboard the Ramblin’ Rose, anchored off Paradise Cove in Malibu. Their daughter Courtney was born on March 9, 1974.
In 2013, former FBI agent Donald G. Wilson claimed that he and Wood had had a four-year affair, from 1973 to 1977, that began when she was pregnant with Courtney Wagner. In 2016, Wilson spoke on camera about his alleged affair with Wood in a documentary for the cable network Reelz.
Celebrity bodyguard Kris Herzog has stated that Wood told his grandmother, an Avalon socialite, she was going to divorce Wagner and that he himself saw Wood the morning before she disappeared.
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