Lana Wood (born Svetlana Gurdin; March 1, 1946) is an American actress
and film producer. She played Sandy Webber on the TV series Peyton
Place and Plenty O'Toole in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.
Her elder sister was film star Natalie Wood.Wood was born Svetlana
Gurdina to Russian immigrant parents, Nikolai Stephanovich Zakharenko
(1912â€"1980) and Maria Stepanovna Zakharenko (née Zudilova,
1908â€"1998). 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 1918; 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 also 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 there, and in 1928 had a
daughter, Olga Tatulova, with her first husband, who died in May
2015.When Nikolai and Maria married, she brought her daughter Olga to
the household. The couple had two daughters together; the first was
Natalia, known as "Natasha", the Russian diminutive. The family
settled in Santa Monica, California, near Hollywood, and changed their
surname to Gurdin. Svetlana, known as "Lana", was born there.
and film producer. She played Sandy Webber on the TV series Peyton
Place and Plenty O'Toole in the James Bond film Diamonds Are Forever.
Her elder sister was film star Natalie Wood.Wood was born Svetlana
Gurdina to Russian immigrant parents, Nikolai Stephanovich Zakharenko
(1912â€"1980) and Maria Stepanovna Zakharenko (née Zudilova,
1908â€"1998). 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 1918; 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 also 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 there, and in 1928 had a
daughter, Olga Tatulova, with her first husband, who died in May
2015.When Nikolai and Maria married, she brought her daughter Olga to
the household. The couple had two daughters together; the first was
Natalia, known as "Natasha", the Russian diminutive. The family
settled in Santa Monica, California, near Hollywood, and changed their
surname to Gurdin. Svetlana, known as "Lana", was born there.
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