Lana Wood Net Worth

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Lana Wood Net Worth

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Lana Wood (born Svetlana Nikolaevna Zakharenko Russian: Светла́на Николаевна Захаренко on March 1, 1946) is an American actress and producer born to Russian émigré parents, Nikolai and Maria Zakharenko. She is best known for her role as Plenty O'Toole in the 1971 James Bond film, Diamonds Are Forever. Her sister was the late actress Natalie Wood. 
Full NameSvetlana Nikolaevna Zakharenko
Net Worth$18 Million
Date Of BirthMarch 1, 1946
Place Of BirthSanta Monica, California, USA
Height5' 3" (1.6 m)
ProfessionActress, Producer, Miscellaneous Crew
SpouseJack Wrather, Jr.
ChildrenEvan Smedley
NicknamesLana Wood, Wood, Lana
Star SignPisces
#Quote
1[on being thrown half naked into the pool in Diamonds Are Forever (1971)] I was told that I was going to be thrown in basically naked, but they told me not to worry because they were going to be doing it in the middle of the night. And it's Las Vegas! Half the world's up in the middle of the night! There were all these people trying to get a look at me from their windows!
#Fact
1Dated Warren Beatty, Sean Connery, Alain Delon and Ryan O'Neal.
2When the Diamonds Are Forever (1971) aired on ABC the network had the scene where Lana, as Plenty O'Toole, walked around wearing nothing but a flimsy pair of see-through pink panties artificially altered to make it appear as though she were wearing a black bra with black panties.
3Producing film on Natalie's life for ABC. Filming in Australia. The movie is The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004). [January 2003]
4Attended the Motor City Comic Con in Novi, Michigan. [May 2009]
5Lana Wood and her grandson, Max, were featured characters in Steve Alten's novel, "Meg: Hell's Aquarium". In the novel, Lana Wood was approached by an animal rights group called R.A.W. (Release of Animals to the Wild) to help facilitate the release of megalodons raised in captivity back into the ocean.
6In July 2007, she was a guest at the Western Film Fair in Charlotte, North Carolina along with Betty Lynn, Jacqueline Scott, Lynn Borden, Joyce Meadows, Brett Halsey, Rick Lenz and Robert Dix.
7She and sister Natalie Wood have played the love interest of Richard Beymer: she as Karen opposite Richard's Dean in Scream Free! (1969) (aka Free Grass), and Natalie as Maria opposite Richard's Tony in West Side Story (1961).
8In two of her films her character is prominently featured being sent out of a window. In The Searchers (1956), where she played the younger version of her older sister Natalie's character, she is sent out of a window and told to hide from the Indians who are coming to attack their range. In Diamonds Are Forever (1971) her character, Plenty O'Toole, is thrown half naked out of a hotel window to almost certain death (but survives by landing in the pool).
9Was portrayed by Nathalie Roy in The Mystery of Natalie Wood (2004).
10Said that she had to stand on a box during most of her scenes with Sean Connery in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) because even with high heels she was too short to fit into the camera frame with him.
11Two of Lana's scenes as Plenty O'Toole in Diamonds Are Forever (1971) were deleted from the final film but are now available on DVD. The first scene is a deleted scene of Lana having dinner with Sean Connery. The second scene took place after Lana was thrown half naked into the pool; she returned to James Bond's apartment, soaking wet, wearing nothing but a white towel and to get the rest of her clothes and see what has become of Bond and sees him making love to Tiffany Case (Jill St. John). Before leaving, an agitated Lana took a card out of Tiffany's purse with her address on it; this second scene accounted for her death later in the film.
12Best known for playing Bond girl Plenty O'Toole, the unfortunate casino gal who, half naked, gets thrown out of a hotel window and lands in a pool in Diamonds Are Forever (1971). She was 25 then.
13Has a daughter, Evan Taylor Moldano (born August 11, 1974), with former husband Richard Smedley. Evan has been married since 1994 to Edward Moldano and they have three children - Nicholas (born 1998), Daphne (born 2000) and Max (born 2002).
14Her father changed the family's last name to Gurdin before she was born, which is why her sister Natalie Wood carried the original family last name Zackharenko at birth while Lana herself carried the new last name.
15Her paternal grandparents were Stephan Zakharenko and Eudoxie Sauchenko, and her maternal grandparents were Stepan Ilich Zudilov and Maria Andreevna Kuleva. She was of Ukrainian and Russian descent. Her father was an architect and her mother was a ballerina.
16Aunt of Natasha Gregson Wagner and Courtney Wagner, and former sister-in-law of Richard Gregson and Robert Wagner. Wagner cut off contact with Lana after the drowning of Natalie Wood in 1981. The controversy of her sister's death has intensified since the 2012 official actions of the Los Angeles Coroner's Office in changing the manner of Natalie's death, on her death certificate, from "Accidental" to "Undetermined" because of the quantity and severity of the bruises described in the autopsy report. The investigation by the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is ongoing.

Actress

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Holly, Jingles and Clyde 3D2018announcedMrs. Claus
Wild Faith2017post-productionOpal
Byer's BogannouncedActress
The ExecutivefilmingMargo Steel
Subconscious Reality2016Implicit
Killing Poe2016Dean Wood
Bestseller2015Marta
Donors2014Norma
Last Wish2010ShortHelen
Deadly Renovations2010Dr. Nitas
War of Heaven2010ShortPresident Bailey
The Book of Ruth: Journey of Faith2009VideoTani
Tales from Dark Fall2009TV SeriesSanti
Divas of Novella2008TV MovieZeld
The New Mike Hammer1985TV SeriesVirginia Warburton
Satan's Mistress1982Lisa
Capitol1982TV SeriesFran Burke (1983)
Nero Wolfe1981TV SeriesDelia Brandt
Captain America II: Death Too Soon1979TV MovieYolanda
Big Shamus, Little Shamus1979TV Series
Starsky and Hutch1976-1979TV SeriesSidney 'Sid' Archer / Ella
David Cassidy - Man Undercover1979TV SeriesPearl
Fantasy Island1978TV SeriesCecile
Police Story1974-1978TV SeriesGloria / Rene / June Lang
A Question of Guilt1978TV MovieElizabeth Carson
The Next Step Beyond1978TV SeriesPeg Enright
Grayeagle1977Beth Colter
Speedtrap1977New Blossom
Corey: For the People1977TV MovieJanet Hanley
Little Ladies of the Night1977TV MovieMaureen
Nightmare in Badham County1976TV MovieSmitty
Baretta1976TV SeriesSister Olive
Sons of Sassoun1975
Who Is the Black Dahlia?1975TV MovieBoarder
QB VII1974TV Mini-SeriesSue Scanlon
Goodnight Jackie1974Jackie
Mission: Impossible1972TV SeriesMarcy Carpenter
A Place Called Today1972Carolyn Schneider
Night Gallery1972TV SeriesMaid (segment "You Can't Get Help Like That Anymore")
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color1972TV SeriesKathleen
Justin Morgan Had a Horse1972Kathleen
Diamonds Are Forever1971Plenty O'Toole
Monty Nash1971TV SeriesDiana
O'Hara, U.S. Treasury1971TV SeriesFran Harper
Marcus Welby, M.D.1971TV SeriesAngie
The Over-the-Hill Gang Rides Again1970TV MovieKatie Flavin
Black Water Gold1970TV MovieEagan Ryan
Scream Free!1969Karen
The Wild Wild West1967-1969TV SeriesAveri Trent / Sheila 'Vixen' O'Shaugnessy
My Friend Tony1969TV Series
The Felony Squad1969TV SeriesSherry Martin
For Singles Only1968Helen Todd
Peyton Place1966-1968TV SeriesSandy Webber
Bonanza1967TV SeriesDana Dawson
The Long, Hot Summer1965-1966TV SeriesEula Harker
The Girls on the Beach1965Bonnie
The Fool Killer1965Alice
The Fugitive1964TV SeriesThe Doll
Wendy and Me1964TV SeriesMillie
Dr. Kildare1964TV SeriesJudy Gaer
Five Finger Exercise1962Mary
The Real McCoys1958TV SeriesMarilyn Harwick
Marjorie Morningstar1958uncredited
Have Gun - Will Travel1958TV SeriesBecky Coldwell
Alcoa Theatre1958TV SeriesPat
Playhouse 901957TV SeriesJudy as a Child
The Searchers1956Younger Debbie Edwards
One Desire1955Little Girl (uncredited)
Driftwood1947Infant (scenes deleted)

Producer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
The Mystery of Natalie Wood2004TV Movie co-producer
Murder Me, Murder You1983TV Movie associate producer

Miscellaneous

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Born to Be Sold1981TV Movie assistant to executive producer

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
When Happy Met Froggie2011Documentary
Channel 1 Yuma Presents 'Renovation: Behind the Scenes'2010TV Movie documentaryHerself
Glanz und Elend in Hollywood: Natalie Wood2009DocumentaryHerself
Western Legenden - Made in Hollywood2009TV Movie documentaryHerself
A Journey of Faith: The Making of Book of Ruth2009Video documentary shortTani / Herself
The Mystery of Natalie Wood2004TV MovieHerself
Biography2003TV Series documentaryHerself
Movie Television2002TV Series documentaryHerself
Backstory2001TV Series documentaryHerself
Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'2000Video documentary shortHerself / Plenty
A Turning of the Earth: John Ford, John Wayne and the Searchers1998Documentary shortLana Wood (voice)
Intimate Portrait1996TV Series documentaryHerself
Hour Magazine1984TV SeriesHerself
The Fall Guy1984TV SeriesHerself
Match Game 731975TV SeriesHerself - Panelist
The Mike Douglas Show1971-1972TV SeriesHerself - Actress
The David Frost Show1972TV SeriesHerself
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson1968-1972TV SeriesHerself / Herself - Guest
Celebrity Bowling1972TV SeriesHerself
The Dick Cavett Show1971TV SeriesHerself
Laugh-In1969TV SeriesHerself
The Hollywood Deb Stars of 19651965TV MovieHerself - Presenter
The Bob Hope Show1963TV SeriesHerself
Too Young to Die2014TV Series documentary
The Playboy Morning Show2013TV SeriesHerself
Inside Edition2011TV Series documentaryHerself
Piers Morgan Tonight2011TV SeriesHerself

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Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1966Gold MedalPhotoplay AwardsMost Promising New Star (Female)

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