Natalie Wood (1938–1981) was an American actress. Her first major role was as a pixie-haired, bawdy teenager in 1962's West Side Story. In 1965 she co-starred with the director of Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray, in the movie The Splendid Hours. The same year she starred opposite Robert Wagner in the suspense thriller The Only Game in Town
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In 1966 she played a young woman on a train who falls prey to a blackmailer in Death on the Nile. Also that year she played a dancing girl on a train who falls prey to a murderer in the film version of Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None. Wood was married to actor Robert Wagner from 1961 until his death from suicide in 1981.
She was found dead of an apparent suicide at his home on November 29, 1981.