Natalie Wood Biography

orig. Natasha Gurdin

(1938–81)

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  • 1955 Rebel Without a Cause
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(born July 20, 1938, San Francisco, Calif.—died Nov. 29, 1981, off Catalina Island, Calif.) U.S. film actress. She began appearing in movies at age five, and she won acclaim for her role in Miracle on 34th Street when she was only nine. A dark-haired beauty of Russian-French extraction, she moved easily into teenage and adult leading roles in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Splendor in the Grass (1961), West Side Story (1961), Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), Inside Daisy Clover (1966), and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). She drowned in a boating accident.


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