Wood's best-known film as a child was Miracle on 34th Street (1947), starring Maureen O'Hara at Fox. And it wasn't another woman. A fairy-tale ending, at least, for a starry-eyed actress whose Prince Charming had feet of clay. Natalie Wood's Life in Photos - Pictures of Natalie Wood. After that, Wood entered therapy then called analysis which is something she eventually encouraged Wagner to do as well after they reconnected. As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance . "[43] She adds that a scene in the film, as a result of "Kazan's wizardry produced a hysteria in Natalie that may be her most powerful moment as an actress. Her studio arranged a date with Robert when she was 18 and him 26. Despite these connections, no coherent theory seems to explain their relation to Spangler's disappearance. The "West Side Story" star was traveling on the family's yacht Splendour with her husband,. She also reveals the contents of Wood's never-published memoir, in which she made clear the real reason for the end of her first marriage to Wagner. Wood met her eventual first husband Robert Wagner (who everyone called "RJ") around the movie studio when she was a teenager, but they didn't go out until she was of age the 26-year-old. 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. However, by June 1961, the pair had separated after just a few years into their relationship. Natalie Wood (born July 20, 1938 - death November 29, 1981) was a Russian-American actress who began her career in film as a child and became a Hollywood star as a young adult. "But. It will be rebroadcast on Wednesday, May 6 at noon ET on HBO and HBO Latino; on May 6 at 8 p.m. From there she continued to offer solid work in hit-and-miss showcases. Her 'protective antennae went up' when she was greeted byCavendish, a much older 'swishy' man with an English accent, a friend told Finstad. The famous gossip columnist Hedda Hopper wrote that Cavendish 'brings them breakfast in bed'. Tweet. A friend of Wood would homophobically complain, even in her presence, about the 'f*****' keeping house for them. Stanyer will be recognized by Berri O'Neal, chair of the Panola College Alumni Association, and recipient of the 2016 Alumna of the Year, at the spring commencement ceremony scheduled for Thursday, May 10, at 5 p.m. in the Arthur Johnson Gymnasium. Finstad says she was told by three of Wood's close friends, by her mother's best friend and by her sister Lana that the actress 'opened a door' while looking for Wagner that night in their home and found him 'intertwined' with his butler. Smith, Cecil. Wood and Wagner reconnected just as they were both coming off splits from their respective spouses and they remarried in July 1972. After she swallowed the pills, she banged on Marts door so obviously, she wanted to live, says Gregson Wagner. Gregson Wagner says she and St. John talked about it in therapy and it was definitely a process, but they are all one big family now. Wood's maternal grandfather owned soap and candle factories, as well as an estate outside Barnaul. Medical device sales is suuuuper lucrative, bless the American health care system's heart. The ball really started rolling with her standout role as the feisty, street-savvy Lou in the improvisation-styled romantic triangle Two Girls and a Guy (1997). Then, waking one night in their opulent kingsize bed, Wood found Wagner missing. However, two people on a nearby boat insisted they heard a woman screaming for help from the water during the night but had been unable to locate her. Actress Natalie Wood was a beautiful woman, an award-winning actress, and by all accounts, a lively, spirited woman whom everyone enjoyed being around, according to the new HBO documentary called Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind. 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). In an interview, Natalie's sister, Lana Wood, told Insider that she doesn't hold Walken responsible. In the documentary, Wood recounts how she had a crush on him at the age of 10 and told her mother that she wanted to marry him when she grew up. As reported by the Daily Mail, Wood's blood alcohol content was 0.14%, which was higher than the legal driving limit. [26] He remained in contact with Wood's family for two years, advising them when another role came up. The addendum stated that Wood might have sustained some of the bruises on her body before she went into the water, but that this could not be definitively determined. 32K views 3 years ago Natalie Woods Stanyer joins Chad to reminisce about her time as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader and talk about her role as a producer for CMT's "Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders:. 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. Wood received three Oscar nominations before she was 25. The events surrounding her death have been the subject of conflicting witness statements,[5] 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. [65], In 2013, former FBI agent Donald G. Wilson claimed that he and Wood had had a four-year affair, from 1973 to 1977, that began when she was pregnant with Courtney Wagner. Blume, Mary. The police stated that they know that Wagner was the last person to be with Wood before she disappeared. [59] Wood had also purchased film rights to the Barbara Wersba book, Country of the Heart, and was planning to star with Timothy Hutton in the drama about the professional-romantic relationship between a tough-minded poet and her much younger student. 1,107 following. Would love your thoughts, please comment. She co-starred with Giovanni Ribisi in the sexy, no-holds-barred First Love, Last Rites (1997) as a white-trash couple who assertively reevaluate their relationship between the sheets. By Julie. Guest Natalie Woods-Stanyer discusses life as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader, her close encounter with a murderer and how it is to work with Chad Prather!Conne. [32] As a child actress, Wood received significant media attention. Karen Mazerac, Brandhi Woods, Andrew Stanyer, Dianne Woods and Rebecca Woods, and many others are family members and associates of Natalie. [67] They remarried on July 16 aboard the Ramblin' Rose, anchored off Paradise Cove in Malibu. Her career continued with films such as Sex and the Single Girl (1964), Inside Daisy Clover (1965), and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969). However, after having a crush on actor Robert Wagner for most of her life ever since she was a child, she ended up pursuing a relationship with him. [85], Wood was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles. [75] According to professor Cynthia Lucia, who studied the claim, Wood's rape was brutal and violent. Natasha Gregson was born on September 29, 1970, in Los Angeles. The three men on board initially said they'd assumed she had rowed back to shore. 6811 The death of Natalie Wood remains unsolved as she had a mysterious death on 29 th November on 1981 as her dead body was found on 29 th November morning almost one mile away from the boat on which she along with her husband Robert Wagner, her co-star Christopher Walken and Dennis Davern traveled the previous night. Wood successfully made the transition from child star to ingnue at age 16 when she co-starred with James Dean and Sal Mineo in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), Nicholas Ray's film about teenage rebellion. Browse all their registries in one list. Natalie Wood and James Dean in the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause. Natalie Wood escapes from Typecast Prison 1. How is that possible? She hid away for a week, losing 10lb from stress. Wood filed for divorce from Gregson on August 4, 1971, and it was finalized on April 12, 1972. She was 43. [3][4], On November 29, 1981, at the age of 43, Wood drowned in the Pacific Ocean near Santa Catalina Island during a break from production of her would-be comeback film Brainstorm (1983). Natalie Woods | Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team Wiki | Fandom Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders: Making the Team Wiki 393 pages Explore Seasons Cheerleader Lists Community in: DCC, S2 Rookie, Successful Returnee, and 5 more Natalie Woods Edit Natalie Woods Seasons Featured 1 - TCC 2 - DCC Rookie Season Season 2 - 2007 Number of DCC Years 1 "I don't believe it was premeditated," the 75-year-old said to The New York Post. Given such an ugly history, perhaps it's not surprising that, even as a star, Wood had a bedroom filled with 47 dolls that she believed were alive and spoke to her. Natalie Wood Still Up for Plum And I said OK and I hung up the phone and that was it., Woods relationship with Beatty was notoriously tumultuous. [87], The case was reopened in November 2011 after Davern publicly stated that he had lied to police during the initial investigation and that Wood and Wagner had an argument that evening. I wanted to find out what human material was there, what her inner life was Then she told me she was being psychoanalyzed. Kazan writes that he cast her in the role partly because he saw in Wood's personality a "true-blue quality with a wanton side that is held down by social pressure," adding that "she clings to things with her eyes," a quality he found especially "appealing. As soon as the teacher let us go, I ran to the set as fast as I could. Although Natasha has taken a couple of U-turns into the mainstream, notably as a decapitated victim in the slasher horror opus Urban Legend (1998), they have been few and far between.During the filming of the well-received John Cusack film High Fidelity (2000), Natasha and the film's screenwriter/co-producer D.V. Key Facts. [79] The autopsy report revealed that she had bruises on her body and arms, as well as an abrasion on her left cheek, but no indication as to how or when the injuries occurred. But their profligate spending and determination to live it up with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh caught up with them, says Finstad. There were rumours, which he has always strenuously denied, that Wagner was gay or bisexual. At the time of her too-early demise, more than a few suspicious fingers pointed directly at Wood's then-husband. She is happily married to Joseph Stanyer. Among the celebrities were Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor, Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Gene Kelly, Elia Kazan, and Laurence Olivier. Quarry, who appeared with him in the 1956 film A Kiss Before Dying (in which, ironically, Wagner played a man who pushes his fiancee to her death from the roof of a building), said the 'pretty boy' star would come off set and put his arm around whichever young actress the studio was promoting as his girlfriend, posing for photographers like a man in love. Movies. Wood's performance in the latter won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in 1980. [80] The autopsy found that Wood's blood alcohol content was 0.14% and that there were traces of a motion-sickness pill and a painkiller in her bloodstream, both of which increase the effects of alcohol. El cuerpo de Wood, de 43 aos, apareci flotando en aguas de la isla de Santa Catalina, en el sur de California, en la maana del 29 de noviembre de 1981, no lejos del yate Splendour, en el que . Dorothy Kilgallen:. Their daughter Courtney was born on March 9, 1974. In one of her last interviews before her death, she was defined as "our sexual conscience on the silver screen". Who was her first husband? Around the same time, Wood told friends she was violently raped by a famous film star not named by Finstad after he invited her to Hollywood's infamous Chateau Marmont hotel to read for a role. For her performance in Splendor, Wood received nominations for the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. In his 2008 memoir, Wagner claimed to have had affairs with a long string of A-listers, from Joan Crawford and Elizabeth Taylor to Anita Ekberg, Joan Collins and Barbara Stanwyck, among many others. Watson has two sons from a previous marriage. Here's everything you need to know about Natalie Wood's husbands and the story behind each. While a waitress said Wood and Walken were holding hands under the table, the manager who was gay saw the two male actors touching each other in a way that he 'recognised as flirting'. Natalie Wood Family Details: Father: Nicholas Zakharenko Mother: Maria Zakharenko Spouse/Husband: Robert Wagner (m. 1972-1981), Richard Gregson (m. 1969-1972), Robert Wagner (m. 1957-1962) Children: Courtney Brooke Wagner, Natasha Gregson Wagner Siblings: Lana Wood (Younger Sister) (Actress), Olga Viriapaeff (Half-Sister) Natalie Wood Education: Wood's character could not handle the sexuality and after a breakdown was committed to a mental institution. Of course, in 1961 any such revelations would have destroyed his career. Wood and Wagner were married until her death in 1981. 14:26 GMT 23 Mar 2020. Natasha Gregson Wagner on the forthcoming HBO documentary Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, in which she sits down with her stepfather to discuss her mother's tragic 1981 death. It was David Cavendish, Wagner's English butler, according to a startling new biography of the troubled star. ET on HBO. Tibbetts wrote of similarities in her role in this film and the earlier Rebel. She was just 11 years old at the time of her mother's death. Actress Natalie Wood, famous for her impressive talent, started her career as a child actor. He then had an affair with Woods secretary. Wood's mother became so excited that she "packed the whole family off to Los Angeles to live," writes Harris. I call him Daddy Gregson. She had roles in the feature films The Silver Chalice and One Desire (1955). [b] Authorities recovered her body at 8a.m. on November29, one mile (1.6km) away from the boat, with a small Valiant-brand inflatable dinghy beached nearby. [23] After she started acting as a child, RKO executives David Lewis and William Goetz changed her surname to "Wood" to make it more appealing to English-speaking audiences and as a tribute to filmmaker Sam Wood. The couple separated the same month and divorced the following year. Natalie Wood was married three times in her life, but she only had two husbands. At the age of 25, Wood received her third Academy Award nomination for Love with the Proper Stranger (1963), making Wood (along with Teresa Wright) the youngest person to score three Oscar nominations. She played a post-World War II German orphan, opposite Orson Welles as Wood's guardian and Claudette Colbert, in Tomorrow Is Forever (1946). Robert Wagner and the mystery of Natalie Wood's death, Erin Moriarty of "48 Hours" reports on new developments in the case of the death of actress Natalie Wood, in 1981, for which her husband, Robert Wagner, has now been named a "person of interest." In his 2008 memoir, the actor claimed that in 1961 he became so jealous of Warren Beatty not only a far more successful actor but then squiring his estranged wife he started waiting outside Beatty's house with a gun and was 'prepared to kill him'. [70], Celebrity bodyguard Kris Herzog has stated that Wood told his grandmother, an Avalon socialite, that she was going to divorce Wagner and that he himself saw Wood the morning before she disappeared.[71][72]. The Shocking Connection Between Kirk Douglas and Natalie Wood, Science Says Robert Pattinson is The Most Handsome Man in the World - Lets Break Down What That Means, Season 4 May Be the Last For Stranger Things. 192w Reply samadanesh_swimwear Beauty! Natalie Wood was a BIG star in 1953/4 and Kirk Douglas was not. On Nov. 29, 1981, the body of Natalie Wood, 43, was found floating in the ocean off Santa Catalina, where she had gone for a holiday weekend on a yacht with her husband, Robert ["R.J."] Wagner . Why We're All Obsessed With '90s . [86] Olivier flew in from London in order to attend the service. In 1956, Natalie had a brief relationship with Elvis Presley, but the two never wed. Wood's father opposed the idea, but his wife's "overpowering ambition to make Natalie a star" took priority. [33], In the 195354 television season, Wood played Ann Morrison, the teenage daughter in The Pride of the Family, an ABC situation comedy. Though it was technically her third marriage, it was her second relationship. Wood who had been lookingforward to an imminent holiday in Italy with Wagner, her first ever trip abroad became hysterical, smashing a crystal glass in her hand and fleeing in her nightgown to a neighbour's house, from where she phoned her mother. READ NEXT: Natalie Woods Death: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know, Natalie Woods Husbands & Lovers, From Warren Beatty to Robert Wagner, Please review our privacy policy here: https://heavy.com/privacy-policy/, Copyright 2023 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. The director telephoned Wood's mother and asked her to bring her daughter to Los Angeles for a screen test. At Wood's funeral, her coffin, decorated with a thousand gardenias, was carried by Rock Hudson, Frank Sinatra, Laurence Olivier, Gregory Peck, David Niven, Fred Astaire and the director Elia Kazan. 39. "Coroner to the stars" Dr. Thomas Noguchi called her death an "accidental drowning," and police closed the case two . She had a small but crucial role in John Ford's The Searchers (1956) and was the female lead in A Cry in the Night (1956). [2], Biographer Suzanne Finstad wrote that a "turning point" in Wood's life as an actress took place when she saw the film A Streetcar Named Desire (1951): "She was transformed, in awe of director Elia Kazan and of Vivien Leigh's performance [who] became a role model for Natalie. Subscribe to the "CBS Sunday Morning" Channel HERE: bit.ly/20gXwJT Get more of "CBS Sunday Morning" HERE: cbsn.ws/1PlMmAz Follow "CBS Sunday, Warren Beatty and Natalie Wood at the Cannes film Festival 1962, Hollywood actressNatalie Woodand her boyfriend, American actorWarren Beattyin1962 CannesFilm Festival, Natalie Woods Death: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Dr. Joseph Choi, a deputy medical examiner at . [7], Wood was born Natalie Zacharenko[n 1] in San Francisco, California, on July 20, 1938,[12] the daughter of Russian parents Maria Zudilova (19081998)[a] and Nicholas Zacharenko (19121980). Lasky was the former husband of Lynn Benner, Dexter Benner's new. On June 20, 1961, the couple announced their separation in a joint press release, and divorced ten months later on April 27, 1962. Her Husband Betrayed Her. [47][48] Her appearance in that film led critic Pauline Kael to comment "clever little Natalie Wood [the] most machine-tooled of Hollywood ingnues."[49][2]. Later millennium credits include A Kiss and a Promise (2011), Anesthesia (2015), Search Engines (2016) and Thirty Nine (2016). In 1981, big screen legend Natalie Wood went missing from the yacht she shared with her husband, Robert Wagneronly to be found approximately six hours later, floating facedown in the Pacific. While much ado has been made about her accidental drowning, which could have involved ex-husband Robert Wagner, we're here to discuss Natalie's marital partners over the years. In 1966, Wood was given the Harvard Lampoon award for being the "Worst Actress of Last Year, This Year, and Next". After winning a starring role at the age of eight in Miracle On 34th Street, she had earned three Oscar nominations before she was 25. We are no longer accepting comments on this article. Wood graduated from Van Nuys High School in 1956. She also had guest shots on Medium (2005), Cold Case (2003), ER (1994), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), House (2004), The Closer (2005) and Date My Dad (2017). [60] The ending of Brainstorm had to be re-written and Wood's character written out of at least three scenes, while a stand-in and sound-alikes were used to replace Wood for some of her crucial shots. In fact, we were both so confused that we thought fighting and hostility meant real emotional honesty.. [66], After a short-lived romance with future California governor Jerry Brown, Wood resumed her relationship with Wagner at the end of January 1972. 14K followers. However, she revealed more in a passage about why she so related to Daisy Clover, the character she played in the 1965 film Inside Daisy Clover. She plays a cynical girl who comes to believe a kindly department store holiday season employee portrayed by Edmund Gwenn is the real Santa Claus. Thank you again, for loving Jennifer, Chris, Landry and family. Natalie Wood's marriage to film producer Richard Gregson was fruitful but incredibly short-lived. [57], At the time of her death, Wood was filming the $15 million science fiction film Brainstorm (1983), co-starring Christopher Walken and directed by Douglas Trumbull.[58]. Born on 20 July 1938, Natalie Wood began acting as a child. It's hardly surprising, therefore, that the young girl expressed an early interest in acting. Just like her mother, Natashia is an actress. The Harvard Crimson wrote she was "quite a good sport". I liked Bob Wagner, I still do. Although Wood's singing in the film was voiced by Marni Nixon,[46] West Side Story is still regarded as one of Wood's best films. She earned three Oscar nominations by 25 before a tragic accident claimed her life at 43. How Natalie Wood found her husband in flagrante with their English butler: Her death sparked a 40-year mystery after a drunken night with husband Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken ended. Working Vacation for Natalie Wood They ended up marrying in the summer of 1972, just five months after reconciling and three months after Natalie's divorce from Richard. Lana recalled that his name was David Cavendish. Ten years later, the movie world would be shocked when the body of Lana's real-life 43-year-old sister Natalie Wood was found floating lifeless in the ocean off Catalina Island on the morning of Nov. 29, 1981. Natasha is Natalie's eldest daughter. What's this business about her marrying the same man two different times? [2] 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. She reportedly had an affair with 38-year-old Frank Sinatra when she was 15; and, a year older, was 'forced' into a sexual relationship with the 43-year-old director Nicholas Ray to prove she could play a 'bad girl' in Rebel Without A Cause. Richard Gregson: is a British talent agent, writer and producer. [38], Tibbetts observed that Wood's characters in Rebel, Searchers, and Morningstar began to show her widening range of acting styles. The comments below have not been moderated, By A Splash of Excess in a Tasteful Fashion Week. In a never-published article she wrote for Ladies Home Journal, Wood says of their relationship, Our affair was a collision from start to finish. Dec 22, 2021 05:35 P.M. Golden Age actress Natalie Wood's marriage with Robert Wagner was plagued with secrets. Finstad's exhaustive 2001 biography of Wood, in which she revealed new evidence suggesting the death wasn't accidental, provided the impetus for Los Angeles police to reopen their investigation of the case in 2011. They had a daughter, Natasha (born September 29, 1970). However, after having a crush on actor Robert Wagner for most of her life ever since she was a child, she ended up pursuing a relationship with him. After a string of relationships with various actors, Wood met producer Richard Gregson through their mutual friend, actor Robert Redford; Gregson was Redfords agent at the time and Redford was best man at their wedding. They had been dating already for around two and a half years ahead of their marriage, as Richard waited for his divorce to be finalized. Natalie Wood: The Complete Biography, by Suzanne Finstad, is published by Broadway Books, 20. The Founders Stan and Sandy Holz are the founders of the Village Gun Store which they opened as a small "Mom and Pop" business in June of 1974. St. John helped him with the loss of Wood because she too had lost a spouse fairly young, and eventually, the children came to accept St. John in their fathers life. Natalie Woods Head Of Marketing at Reassured Greater Guildford Area, United Kingdom Reassured, +9 more The Institute of Direct and Digital Marketing (IDM), +5 more Natalie Woods Digital. [60] (The material was eventually adapted into a 1990 television film starring Jane Seymour.) Wagner had employed David Cavendish before he married Wood and the butler's presence in the actor's tiny two-bedroom flat had made Wood's mother instantly suspicious. Her parents separated before Natasha was even a year old and when Natalie remarried Wagner a year later, Natasha was informally adopted by her famous stepdad. The actress was yachting with her husband and co-star Christopher Walken when she disappeared and drowned. Finstad suggests that if Wood, who was then 43, hadn't been devastated by Wagner's disloyalty two decades earlier, she wouldn't have tried to make him jealous of their friend and fellow star Christopher Walken, provoking a drunken row that ended with the actress left floundering in the sea at night with nobody to save her. Getty [2] In all, Wood appeared in over twenty films as a child. She described the GE Theater episode, "Carnival", as one of the best things she ever did.[34]. Kazan wrote in his 1997 memoir that the "sages" of the film community declared her "washed up" as an actress, but he still wanted to interview her for his next film: When I saw her, I detected behind the well-mannered 'young wife' front a desperate twinkle in her eyes I talked with her more quietly then and more personally. I talked to [Wood] and said I was going to Europe and do you want to come there and she said no, I have other plans. Wood was briefly married to the British producer Richard Gregson, from 1969 to 1972, but left him after she discovered that he has having an affair with his secretary. 'Daisy becomes a movie star, falls in love with a handsome man who is attracted to other men, and she discovers this flaw on her honeymoon,' she wrote. Walken, now 76, has been married to Georgianne Thon since 1969 but has hinted that he is bisexual. Nov. 30, 2021 8:25 AM PT. [36] She signed with Warner Brothers and was kept busy during the remainder of the decade in many "girlfriend" roles, which she found unsatisfying.[37]. Her mother was of Russian heritage and was christened Natalia but affectionately nicknamed Natasha during her childhood -- hence, the name. Image: Natalie Wood wedding Richard Gregson. "[27], Wood's mother continued to play a significant role in her daughter's early career, coaching her and micromanaging aspects of her career even after Wood acquired agents. He felt that despite her earlier innocent roles, she had the talent and maturity to go beyond them. After their split in 1964, Wood struggled with some mental health issues. Now 92 years old, Robert Wagner resides far from Hollywood, where some remain . [22] After that, his widow and three sons fled to Shanghai, subsequently relocating to Vancouver at the time of Wood's paternal grandmother's remarriage in 1927. Its author, Suzanne Finstad, says Wagner's 'sexual betrayal' of Wood not only destroyed their first marriage but was the 'dark cloud' that loomed over their remarriage and her mysterious death in 1981. Lana, who was 15, remembers Natalie arriving at their parents' home that night, her hand bleeding, sobbing that her marriage was over. Wood, too, questioned the butler's presence and urged Wagner to dispense with him. Natalie's occupation has been discussed already, but her husband is in medical device sales. Her body was found the morning of Nov. 29, 1981, in the water off the island. [51], Although many of Wood's films were commercially successful, at times her acting was criticized. In David Lynch's Lost Highway (1997) she turned heads as Balthazar Getty's cheating girlfriend, and played an adulterous wife in Quiet Days in Hollywood (1997). She drowned during a drunken and chaotic cruise off the Californian coast. 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