Natasha Gregson Wagner

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American actress and noted family, the daughter of actress Natalie Wood and her second husband, producer Richard Gregson. Natasha lived with her mom and Robert Wagner (whom her mother married twice, before and after her marriage to Gregson), and Wagner adopted her when he remarried Wood in 1972. Her mom supervised piano and ballet lessons. "I knew she was special but none of that had to do with her being an actress. I related to her because she was my mom." When her famous mom died in a tragic drowning accident on 11/29/1981, Wagner was just 11. She leaned heavily on stepsister Katie Wagner, (now a freelance TV reporter,) and half sister Courtney Wagner, the only child Wood had with Wagner. She refers to her life as having "two fathers." After graduating from high school Natasha went on to Boston's Emerson College and then back to the University of Southern California. In 1992 she dropped out of college to follow what she's always wanted to do, act. She made her film debut in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and went on to a half dozen minor films by 1994. In 1997 she appeared in the surreal thriller "Lost Highway" and completed the drama "Another Day in Paradise" with James Woods. Dark haired and resembling her mom, Wagner has had to deal with the inevitable comparison. In 1998 on the film set of "Two Girls and a Guy," writer and director James Toback claimed "It's almost eerie. At times I felt I was in the presence of her mom. She has the same nose, mouth, smile, laugh and same essential spirit as her mother." Wagner enjoys organizing the correspondence her mom kept with friends like Ruth Gordon, David Niven and Mia Farrow plus all the love letters from Wagner. She likes to read novels and watch the whales from her two-bedroom beach home in Malibu. Her beau from 1989 was Josh Evans, the son of Ali MacGraw and Robert Evans. In 1998 her significant other was Adam Storke, an actor on the ABC series "Prey." In November 2002, she and screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis, 35, announced their engagement. On October 11, 2003, the actress daughter of Natalie Wood and Richard Gregson, whose step-father is Robert Wagner, married D. V. DeVincentis, age 36, whom she met in 2000 on the set of "High Fidelity," which he co-wrote. They married in Robert Wagner’s Los Angeles backyard, with both her father and step-father walking her down the aisle. Link to Wikipedia biography