The Playboy pictures appeared in the April 1971 issue, along with Wood's poetry. In 1970, Wood was approached by Hugh Hefner and she agreed to pose for Playboy. She was cast as a Bond girl, Plenty O'Toole, in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever (1971). 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. 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. Starting in the 1960s, her own career took off. In her early career, Wood usually played in films in which Natalie appeared. Maria agreed to use "Wood" for Lana, building on Natalie's recognized work. When Lana made her film debut in The Searchers (1956), her mother was asked under what last name Lana should be credited. She was named after her director Irving Pichel's friend Sam Wood. Her parents changed the surname of her elder sister, making her Natalie Wood, after she started her acting career as a child. Svetlana, known as "Lana", was born there. The family settled in Santa Monica, California, near Hollywood, and changed their surname to Gurdin. The couple had two daughters together the first was Natalie, known as "Natasha", the Russian diminutive. When Nicholas and Maria married in February 1938, she brought her daughter Olga, then known as Ovsanna, to the household, sharing joint custody with her ex-husband. Maria married Alexander Tatuloff there in 1925, and they had a daughter, Olga Viripaeff (1928–2015), before divorcing in 1936. Lana's maternal grandfather owned soap and candle factories in Barnaul he left Russia with his family in 1918 after his eldest son was killed by the Red Army, and settled in a Russian community in Harbin, China.
Her father's family left Vladivostok after her grandfather, a chocolate-factory worker who joined the anti- Bolshevik civilian forces, was killed in a street fight in 1922 they settled in Vancouver, British Columbia, with their relatives, then moved to San Francisco. They had each left Russia as child refugees with their parents following the Russian Civil War, and they grew up far from their homeland. Additionally, he voiced Jace Rucklin in Disney XD's Star Wars Resistance.Wood was born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin to Russian immigrant parents, Maria Zudilova (1908–1998), whose alternate first names included Mary, Marie and Musia, and Nicholas Zacharenko (1912–1980). He also portrayed the Artful Dodger in the 1997 television film adaptation of Oliver Twist, as well as the speaking voice of Tom Thumb in The Adventures of Tom Thumb and Thumbelina and Willard Young in the 1991 Touchstone Pictures film, Paradise. He also voiced Mumble the Emperor penguin in Happy Feet and its 2011 sequel, Wirt in the animated television miniseries Over the Garden Wall, provided various voices for the stop-motion sketch comedy series Robot Chicken, and voiced the titular character in The Legend of Spyro video game trilogy.įor Disney, he played Pinocchio in the 1990 edition of You and Your Five Senses, Huckleberry "Huck" Finn in the 1993 adventure film, The Adventures of Huck Finn, and voiced Beck in the Disney XD animated series Tron: Uprising. Evan Kongsved Wood Source Elijah Jordan Wood is an American actor, voice actor, producer, and DJ, who is best known for his role as Mark in The Good Son, Frodo Baggins in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy and its prequel, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey.
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