Natalie Wood

See also: Wood

Natalie Wood , of his true name Natalia Nikolaiewna Zakharenko , is an American actress , born the July 20th 1938 with San Francisco (California) deceased the November 29th 1981 close to the island Santa Catalina always in California, following a drowning.

Biography

Girl of a dancer and a decorator of cinema, both Russian emigrants, Natalie Wood precociously begins an intense career of actress in roles of little girls, then teenagers. Young adult, it is violated by an actor celebrates of which it will conceal the name. It Marie with the actor Robert Wagner then made his truths beginnings in Fury of living. It is only in 1961 that it becomes a high-speed motorboat with whole share with its appearance in the Fever in blood and especially West Side Story. The same year she divorces Robert Wagner, with which she will be remariera ten years later. Its career ends in 1981 tragically when it is found drowned close to a Californian island where it spent the holidays. Peter Bogdanovich paid to him homage in a telefilm being entitled Natalie Wood the price of glory (The Mystery off Natalie Wood), carried out in 2004.

She had two girls: Courtney Wagner and the actress Natasha Gregson Wagner. The latter, born from the union with the English producer Richard Gregson, was adopted by Robert Wagner after their remarriage.

A suspect death

The circumstances of its death remain fuzzy. In margin of the turning of Brainstorm , Wood was on the yacht Splendor with Robert Wagner, the actor Christopher Walken and the captain of the boat but testimonys did not agree on all the points. Certain witnesses would have intended it to call for the aid after being fallen in water but Wagner and Walken affirmed the opposite. Officially, its death was declared accidental but the results of the Autopsie did not go in this direction with the discovery of suspect marks and toxic substances in its body.

Catalog of films

Sources

  • the encyclopedia Robert Boussinot of the cinema , Bordered, Paris, 1989.

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