Cast & creator
Natalie Wood
Best known for The Mike Douglas Show, The Merv Griffin Show, What's My Line?
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.
Also known as: Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko, Natasha Gurdin
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film credits
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television credits
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1943–2026 · acting roles
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Known for
Across film & television
Filmography (121)
Showing 121 of 121 credits
The Mike Douglas Show
Self
1961
The Merv Griffin Show
Self
1962
What's My Line?
Self - Mystery Guest
1950
Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee / Presenter
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self - Nominee
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self
1944Golden Globe Awards
Self - Winner
1944
The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest
1968
Four Star Playhouse
Louise
1952
Intimate Portrait
Self (archive footage)
1993
Studio One
Jen Potter
1948
Dinah!
Self
1974
The Bob Hope Show
Self
1950
The Ed Sullivan Show
Self
1948Film '72
Self
1971
The Jack Benny Program
Natalie Wood
1950
The Oscars
Self
1953
Switch
Cruise Ship Passenger (uncredited)
1975
Studio 57
1954
People's Choice Awards
Self - Presenter
1975V.I.P. Schaukel
Self
1971
Sex and the Single Girl
Helen Gurley Brown
1964
The Searchers
Debbie Edwards
1956Chevron Theatre
Monica Everton
1952
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self
1973
Buzzfeed Unsolved: True Crime
Self (archive footage)
2016
Miracle on 34th Street
Susan Walker
1947
West Side Story
Maria
1961
Rebel Without a Cause
Judy
1955
The Pride of the Family
Ann Morrison
1953
The Great Race
Maggie Dubois
1965
General Electric Theater
Lucy
1953General Electric Theater
Polly Gookin
1953
Too Young to Die
Self (archive footage)
2012
From Here to Eternity
Karen Holmes
1979From Here to Eternity
Karen Holmes
1980
Laurence Olivier Presents
Margaret
1976
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
Carol Sanders
1969
Splendor in the Grass
Wilma "Deanie" Loomis
1961
Brainstorm
Karen Brace
1983
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Anna Muir as a Child
1947
This Property Is Condemned
Alva Starr
1966
Mayor of the Town
Mayor's Niece
1954
Meteor
Tatiana Donskaya
1979
Inside Daisy Clover
Daisy Clover
1966
The Candidate
Natalie Wood
1972
Gypsy
Louise Hovick/Gypsy Rose Lee
1962
Hollywood: No Sex, Please!
2018
Howard
Maria (archive footage)
2018
The Memory of Eva Ryker
Eva Ryker / Claire Ryker
1980
Love with the Proper Stranger
Angie Rossini
1963
James Dean: Forever Young
Self (archive footage)
2005
The Burning Hills
Maria-Christina Colton
1956
The Fabulous Allan Carr
Self (archive footage)
2017
The Last Married Couple in America
Mari Thompson
1980
No Sad Songs for Me
Polly Scott
1950
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
Debbie Edwards - Age 15 (archive footage) (uncredited)
2026
Penelope
Penelope
1966
A Cry in the Night
Elizabeth
1956
Bombers B-52
Lois Brennan
1957
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Self (archive footage)
1982
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind
Self (archive footage)
2020
Paul Newman: The Restless
Self (archive footage)
2023
The Silver Chalice
Helena as a Girl
1954
Willie & Phil
Herself
1980
Driftwood
Jenny Hollingsworth
1947
Marjorie Morningstar
Marjorie Morgenstern
1958
The Moon Is Down
Carrie (uncredited)
1943
The James Dean Story
Self
1957
Feathertop
Polly Gookin
1955
Tomorrow Is Forever
Margaret Ludwig
1946
James Dean: The First American Teenager
Self
1975
Kings Go Forth
Monique Blair
1958Kings Row
Renee Gyllinson
1955
Cash McCall
Lory Austen
1960
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Margaret
1976
Sherwood Anderson's I'm A Fool
Lucy
1954
The Girl He Left Behind
Susan Daniels
1956
All the Fine Young Cannibals
Sarah "Salome" Davis
1960
Happy Birthday, Bob: 50 Stars Salute Your 50 Years with NBC
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1988
Playmates
Monica
1954
Never a Dull Moment
Nan Hayward
1950
The Bride Wore Boots
Carol Warren
1946
Father Was a Fullback
Ellen Cooper
1949
Tab Hunter Confidential
Self (archive)
2015
Hollywood Singing & Dancing: A Musical History - 1960's
(archive footage)
2009
Brunes et Blondes
Self
2010
Death In Hollywood
Self (archive footage)
1990
Hart to Hart
Movie Star
1979
Too Old for Dolls
Polly Ramsay
1955
New York Premiere Telecast 'Giant'
Self
1956
Happy Land
Little Girl Dropping Ice Cream Cone (uncredited)
1943
Our Very Own
Penny Macaulay
1950
The Affair
Courtney Patterson
1973
The Rose Bowl Story
Sally Burke
1952
Peeper
Ellen Prendergast
1975Dominick Dunne: After the Party
Self (archive footage)
2008
One Desire
Seely Dowder
1955
The Star
Gretchen
1952
James Dean Remembered
Self
1974
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood
Self (archive footage)
2009
The Blue Veil
Stephanie Rawlins
1951
Hollywood Heaven: Tragic Lives, Tragic Deaths
Self (archive footage)
1990
Return of the Dead
Renee Marchand
1954
The Cracker Factory
Cassie Barrett
1979
Natalie Wood: An American Murder Mystery
2018
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
Self
1975
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!
Eufraznee 'Bean' McGill
1948
How Real is 'The Star'?
Self (archive footage)
2005
Trumbull Land
Self (archive footage)
2018
Just for You
Barbara Blake
1952
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Self (uncredited)
2005
The Jackpot
Phyllis Lawrence
1950
Hollywood’s Children
Self (archive footage)
1982
The Green Promise
Susan Matthews
1949
Chicken Every Sunday
Ruth Hefferen
1949
Dear Brat
Pauline Baxter
1951
Rediscovering a Rebel
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1996
The Deadly Riddle
Lady Marian
1956
Heidi
Klara Sesseman
1955
The Wild Bunch
Louise
1955