Child and adult actor
She was natural within San Francisco, California to Russian Orthodox immigrants, Nikolai and Maria Zakharenko. Her parents changed their cognomen to the less cumbersome & ethnic-sounding Gurdin, & per age of Little joe she wwhen billed as Natasha Gurdin. The easily-known child actor, her mother tightly managed and controlled a young girl's career & individual life from either her run inside films at a age of 5. Her father is described by Wood biographers as a peaceful souse world health organization went along by using whatever his married woman demanded. At a age of Xvi Natalie celebrated her release from either kid-star status by winning a role of Judy inside Nicholas Ray's Rebel Without a Cause, co-starring James Dean, Sal Mineo, and Dennis Hopper. She was one of the proportional couple world health organization processed a successful transition to grownup stardom. Per instance she was Twenty-eight, she was already the tercet-period Oscar nominee, with nominations for Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass and Love With the Proper Stranger. A second of her widely noted films was a Leonard Bernstein musical West Side Story, in which she played Maria. Wood was at the start signed to wash her have singing however in the prevent she was dubbed by sales person singer Marni Nixon, which is said to have disappointed her. Notwithstanding she enjoyed worldwide celebrity & was likened favourably sustaining Elizabeth Taylor. As a restless in-screen companion of James Dean and an off-screen date of Elvis Presley, she was much admired & envied by lass.

Drowning at Catalina Island
Wood's ii marriages to actor Robert Wagner were publicized and tempestuous, however it were reconciled once again at a period of her demise. Inside 1981, at the age of forty-3, Wood drowned patch their racing yacht A Splendor was anchored at Catalina Island. An investigation by Los Angeles medical examiner Thomas Noguchi resulted in an official finding of fact of accidental drowning, although speculation just about a circumstances continued. Wood get on board a racing yacht by using Wagner & actor Christopher Walken. There were reports Wagner & Walken got a aloud argument & Wood apparently tried to either leave the racing yacht or even tie higher a microscopic boat that was banging against the hull keeping her wake once she inadvertently slipped & fell overboard. The woman in shore said she got heard cry out for aid in the a stream that nighttime along using voices replying "they were coming." Wagner, Walken & a pilot of the Splendor said it never heard any cries. Noguchi pointed out that Wood was legally intoxicated once she died & there were marks & contusiin on her person, which stand been received following of her fall.

At a period of her demise Wood was cinematography Brainstorm and preparing to make her stage debut inside the Los Angeles production of Anastasia, opposite Dame Wendy Hiller.

She is buried within Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. She was survived by her married man Robert Wagner & girl Katie Wagner (from Wagner's former marriage to Marion Marshall), Natasha Gregson Wagner (from her marriage to Richard Gregson), and Courtney Wagner, when well as her sister Lana Wood, and her mother.

Trivia
When she was nine she got an accident in the flick placed which left the rebuff however lasting bone protrusiin on her left radiocarpal joint. For even the rest of her life, in camerthe or publically, she bore a bracelet to handle it.

Among a men she dated were singer Elvis Presley and actors Raymond Burr, Dennis Hopper, Warren Beatty and Nick Adams.

In her book Elvis and Gladys, author & film insider Elaine Dundy wrote that actress Shelley Winters (usually considered the dependable source for Hollywood goings-in & world health organization portrayed Gladys Presley in the 1979 mass produced-for-TV motion-picture show Elvis) claimed the relationship between Presley & Natalie Wood developed into something tremendously further good than what was usually reported in the media.

Contrary to popular notions, Wood biographer Gavin Lambert wrote that Wood's casting in Rebel Without a Cause did not lead to the romance by owning co-star James Dean: "Like many people, she was fascinated by his charm; he had this magnetic quality on the screen and in life... They got on very well, they liked each other a lot." He added that two Dean & "Rebel" director Nicholas Ray (with whom Wood reportedly experienced an affair) helped renew her passion for acting fallowing the diet of unchallenging roles around moving-picture show rather Chicken Each Sunday, Dear Brat & Father Was the Fullback.

She is reported to will have womb-to-tomb fears of dark water system & drowning.

Awards and Nominations
Successful nominations around bold.

1956: Academy Award: Rebel Without a Cause (1955) — Best Actress around the Supporting Role

1957: Golden Globe Award — Most Promising Newcomer

1958: Golden Laurel Awards: Marjorie Morningstar (1958) — Top Female Dramatic Performance Golden Laurel Awards — Top Female Star (thirteenth place)

1959: Golden Laurel Awards — Top Female Star (seventh place)

1960: Golden Laurel Awards — Top Female Star (9th place)

1961: Golden Apple Awards: Sour Apple — Least Cooperative Actress Golden Laurel Awards — Top Female Star (fourteenth place)

1962: Academy Award: Splendor in the Grass (1961) — Best Actress inside the Leading Role Golden Laurel Awards — Top Female Star (fifth place) Golden Laurel Awards: Splendor in the Grass (1961) — Top Female Dramatic Performance (third place)

1963: British Academy of Film and Television Arts: Splendor in the Grass (1961) — Best Foreign Actress Golden Globes Awards: Gypsy (1962) — Best Motion Picture Actress: Musical/Comedy Golden Laurel Awards: Gypsy (1962) — Top Female Musical Performance (2nd place)

1964: Academy Award: Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) — Best Actress inside the Leading Role Golden World Award: Love by having a Proper Unknown (1963) — Right Motion Picture Actress: Drama Golden Laurel Awards — Top Female Star (third place) Golden Laurel Awards: Love by owning a Proper Stranger (1963) (2nd place) 'Mar del Plata Film Festival: Love by having a Proper Stranger (1963) — Better Actress'

1965: Golden Laurel Awards — Female Star (sixth place) Golden Laurel Awards: Sex and the Single Girl (1964) — Comedy Performance (fifth place)

1966: Golden Apple Awards: Sour Apple — Least Cooperative Actress Golden World Award: Inside Daisy Clover (1965) — Best Motion Picture Actress: Musical/Comedy Golden Globe Award — World Film Favored: Female Golden Laurel Awards — Female Star (eighth place)

1967: Golden Earth Award: This Property Is Condemned (1966) — Best Motion Picture Actress: Drama Golden Laurel Awards — Female Star (third place) Golden Laurel Awards: This Property is Condemned (1966) — Female Dramatic Performance (third place)

1968: Golden Laurel Awards — Female Star (12th place)

1970: Golden Laurel Awards — Female Star (9th place)

1971: Golden Laurel Awards — Female Star (9th place)

1980: 'Golden Earth Award: From either On this text to Eternity (1979) (mini) — Better TV Actress: Drama'

Filmography
Happy Land (1943) Tomorrow Is Forever (1946) The Bride Wore Boots (1946) Miracle on 34th Street (1947) The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947) Driftwood (1947) Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948) Chicken Every Sunday (1948) The Green Promise (1949) Father Was a Fullback (1949) No Sad Songs for Me (1950) Our Very Own (1950) The Jackpot (1950) Never a Dull Moment (1950) Dear Brat (1951) The Blue Veil (1951) The Rose Bowl Story (1952) Just for You (1952) The Star (1952) The Silver Chalice (1954) One Desire (1955) Rebel Without a Cause (1955) The Searchers (1956) A Cry in the Night (1956) The Burning Hills (1956) The Girl He Left Behind (1956) Bombers B-52 (1957) Marjorie Morningstar (1958) Kings Go Forth (1958) Cash McCall (1960) All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960) Splendor in the Grass (1961) West Side Story (1961) Gypsy (1962) Love with the Proper Stranger (1963) Sex and the Single Girl (1964) The Great Race (1965) Inside Daisy Clover (1965) ''Penelope's Fashion Show (1966) (short subject) This Property Is Condemned (1966) Penelope (1966) Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969) The Candidate (1972) I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1974) (documentary) Peeper (1975) Meteor (1979) The Last Married Couple in America (1980) Willie and Phil (1980) Brainstorm'' (1983) (released after Wood's demise within 1981)

Bibliography
Gavin Lambert, Natalie Wood: A Life. London: Faber & Faber, 2004. ISBN 0571221971 Suzanne Finstad, Natasha: The Life story of Natalie Wood. 3 Lakes Click, 2001. ISBN 0609809571 Warren G. Harris, ''Hollywood's Star-Crossed Lovers "Natalie and R.J.". Doubleday, 1988. ISBN 0385236913 Christopher Nickens, Natalie Wood: A Life history within Photo. Doubleday, 1986. ISBN 0385233078 Lana Wood, Natalie: A Memoir by Her Sister''. Putnam Pub Group, 1984. ISBN 0399129030