Lana Wood
American actress (born 1946)
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- Lana Wood (born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin ; March 1, 1946) is an American actress and producer.
- Her sister was Natalie Wood.
- They had each left Russia as child refugees with their parents following the Russian Civil War, and they grew up far from their homeland.
- 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.
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WikipediaLana Wood (born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin; March 1, 1946) is an American actress and producer. She made her film debut in The Searchers as a child actress and later achieved notability for playing Sandy Webber on the TV series Peyton Place and Plenty O'Toole in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever. Her sister was Natalie Wood.
Wood was born Svetlana Lisa Gurdin to Russian émigrés, Marusia Zoudilova (1908–1998), also known as Mary Tatuloff, Marie Tatuloff or Maria Gurdin, and Nicholas Zacharenko (1912–1980). They had each left Russia as child refugees with their parents following the Russian Civil War, and they grew up far from their homeland. 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. 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. Maria married Armenian mechanic Alexander Tatuloff there in 1925, and they had a daughter, Olga Viripaeff (1928–2015), before divorcing in 1936.
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