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   During the filming of Rebel Without a Cause (1955), 17-year-old Wood had an affair with the film's director, Nicholas Ray, who was nearly 27 years older than the actress.

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   Real name is Natalya Nikolayevna Zakharenko (Gurdina).

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   Daughter of Russian emigrants Nikolai Stepanovich Zakharenko, originally from Vladivostok, and Maria Stepanovna Zudilova, originally from Barnaul, who, after becoming US citizens, changed their surname to Gurdin.

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   She took her pseudonym in honor of director Sam Wood, who staged comedies featuring the Marx Brothers.

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   She drowned under unexplained circumstances while sailing on a yacht.

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   Natalya was the second of three daughters. Her younger sister Lana also became an actress.

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   She took her pseudonym in honor of director Sam Wood, who made comedies featuring the Marx Brothers.

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   While living in Los Angeles, she was a parishioner of the Transfiguration Cathedral.

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   During the filming of Rebel Without a Cause (1955), 17-year-old Wood had an affair with the film's director, Nicholas Ray, who was almost 27 years older than the actress.