History Creator / NatalieWood

** As young Anna Muir in ''Film/TheGhostAndMrsMuir'' (with Vanessa Brown as adult Anna).

She is also a relatively rare example of a Hollywood child star who avoided FormerChildStar status and became an A-lister in adulthood (Creator/ElizabethTaylor is another), earning three UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations (one for [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInASupportingRole Best Actress in a Supporting Role]] and two for [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInALeadingRole Best Actress in a Leading Role]]). Critics have theorized that the bulk of Wood's cinematic roles could represent a portrait of 20th-century American womanhood in transition.

She was born to Russian immigrant parents (who had fled the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Civil War]]) in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco. First appearing onscreen at the age of four and owing her "Wood" stage name to Creator/RKOPictures executives who chose it in reference to director Sam Wood, she had a career spanning forty years, from ''Film/TheMoonIsDown'' (1943) to the posthumously-released ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' (1983). Her sister Creator/{{Lana|Wood}} also became an actress.

** She appeared in some crowd scenes in ''Film/DownhillRacer'' (produced by her then-husband Richard Gregson). She worked uncredited as a production assistant (providing props and wardrobe) and did script revisions on the film.
** She briefly appeared in some series starring Robert Wagner when she was married (for the second time) to him such as ''Series/{{Switch|1975}}'' and ''Series/HartToHart''.
** She appeared [[AsHimself as herself]] in ''Film/TheCandidate'' alongside her friend Creator/RobertRedford.

She was also a relatively rare example of a Hollywood child star who avoided FormerChildStar status and became an A-lister in adulthood (Creator/ElizabethTaylor is another), earning three UsefulNotes/AcademyAward nominations (one for [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInASupportingRole Best Actress in a Supporting Role]] and two for [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestActressInALeadingRole Best Actress in a Leading Role]]). Critics have theorized that the bulk of Wood's cinematic roles could represent a portrait of 20th-century American womanhood in transition.

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She married Creator/RobertWagner in 1957, they divorced in 1962, then remarried in 1972. She married and divorced British talent agent and producer Richard Gregson in the interim and had a daughter with him in 1970, Natasha Gregson Wagner, who became an actress. She had a second child in 1974, with Robert Wagner this time, Courtney Brooke Wagner, who also became an actress.

On November 29, 1981, Wood -- who had a self-admitted fear of water, and never learned to swim -- was found dead in the waters of a cove on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of Southern California. She seemingly fell into the sea from her and Robert Wagner's yacht during a holiday break from the production of ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' with Creator/ChristopherWalken. Both Walken and Wagner were aboard the yacht when the tragedy happened, and Wagner was considered a "person of interest" in the case from 2018 to 2022.

She was born to Russian immigrant parents (who had fled the [[UsefulNotes/RedOctober Russian Civil War]]) in UsefulNotes/SanFrancisco. First appearing onscreen at the age of four and owing her "Wood" stage name to Creator/RKOPictures executives in reference to director Sam Wood, she had a career spanning forty years, from ''Film/TheMoonIsDown'' (1943) to the posthumously-released ''Film/{{Brainstorm}}'' (1983). Her sister Creator/{{Lana|Wood}} also became an actress.

** She attempted a second one after semi-retiring from the movie business in the late [[TheSixties 1960s]]-early [[TheSeventies 1970s]], both out of frustration with the studio system and to raise her children. She appeared in some high profile MiniSeries and both ''Brainstorm'' and the stage play ''Anastasia'' were meant to cement a return to form. Alas, she died before ''Brainstorm'' was fully completed and ''Anastasia'' never happened as a result.

** She appeared in some crowd scene in ''Film/DownhillRacer'' (produced by her then-husband Richard Gregson). She worked uncredited as a production assistant (providing props and wardrobe) and did script revisions on the film.