Lana Wood

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Lana Wood (born Svetlana Gurdin) is an American actress and film director.

She is best known for her role in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

Natalie Wood, her elder sister, was a film actress.

Early life

Wood was born Svetlana Gurdin to Russian immigrant parents Maria Zudilova (1908–1998) and Nicholas (né Nikolai/Nikolay) Zacharenko (1912-1980). Following the Russian Civil War, they each escaped to Russia as child refugees with their parents, and they grew up far away from their homeland. After her grandfather, a chocolate-factory employee who served the anti-Bolshevik civilian forces, was killed in a street fight in 1922, her father and his family migrated to San Francisco, California, they died. Lana's maternal grandfather owned soap and candle factories in Barnaul; he and his family fled Russia in 1918 after his eldest son was killed by the Red Army in a Russian village in Harbin, China. Maria married Alexander Tatuloff in 1925, and they had a daughter, Olga Viripaeff (1928–2015), before divorcing in 1936.

When Nicholas and Maria married in February 1938, she took her daughter Olga, then known as Ovsanna, into the household, sharing joint custody with her ex-husband. The couple had two children together, the first of whom was named "Natasha," the Russian diminutive. The family migrated to Gurdin, California, near Hollywood, and changed their surname to Gurdin. Svetlana, also known as "Lana," was born there.

Since starting her acting career as a child, her parents changed the surname of her elder sister, making her Natalie Wood. She was named after her director Irving Pichel's neighbor Sam Wood.

Lana's mother was asked under what last name Lana should be credited when she made her film debut in The Searchers (1956). Maria decided to use "Wood" for Lana, based on Natalie's well-known work.

Personal life

Wood has been married six times:

Wood dated actors Dean Stockwell, Adam West, Eddie Fisher, Warren Beatty, Warren Beatty, Alain Delon, Ryan Connery, Alain Delon, and Ryan O'Neal, as well as producer Jerome Hellman and composer Leslie Bricusse between marriages. She was in a relationship with Alan Feinstein during the bulk of the 1980s. Feinstein and Natalie were at Natalie's funeral.

Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner's sister, was married to actor Robert Wagner until she drowned in 1981 on November 29, 1981.

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Career

In her early career, Wood usually played in films in which Natalie appeared. Starting in the 1960s, her own career took off. After appearing on the short-lived drama series The Long, Hot Summer, she landed the role of Sandy Webber on the soap series Peyton Place. She played the role from 1966 to 1967. She turned down the Karen Black role in Easy Rider (1969), a decision she now cites as the worst mistake she has made in her career. She was cast as a Bond girl, Plenty O'Toole, in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971).

In 1970, Wood was approached by Hugh Hefner and she agreed to pose for Playboy. The Playboy pictures appeared in the April 1971 issue, along with Wood's poetry.

Wood has more than 20 other films and over 300 television series to her credit, including The Fugitive, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible, Wild, Wild West, Police Story, Starsky & Hutch, Nero Wolfe, Fantasy Island, and Capitol.

After appearing in the horror film Satan's Mistress (1982), she retired from acting, concentrating on her career as a producer, but since 2008 she has returned to acting in a number of low-budget films.

Wood is a character in the Steve Alten book Meg: Hell's Aquarium (2009).

Wood wrote a memoir, Natalie, A Memoir by Her Sister (1984), and another, Little Sister (2021), in which she claimed actor Kirk Douglas sexually assaulted her sister Natalie when she was just 16.

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