Natasha Gregson Wagner

Natasha Gregson Wagner (born September 29, 1970) is an American actress.

Wagner was born in Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Richard Gregson, a screenwriter and producer, and movie actress Natalie Wood. She is the adopted daughter of actor Robert Wagner. She left Emerson College to pursue an acting career.

Personal life

Natasha Gregson Wagner is the oldest daughter of the late Hollywood icon Natalie Wood and her second ex husband Richard Gregson. She is of Russian heritage, as her mother, aunts and grandparents immigranted from Russia. Her mother was briefly married to her father for two years, than divorced him and remarried her ex husband actor Robert Wagner, with that marriage she got an older stepsister Katie Wagner and than a younger half sister Courtney Wagner. According to Robert Wagner when Natasha was a child she hated going to sleep at night and needed to know where he and her mother were going at all times. Sadly on November 29, 1981 Natalie Wood drowned in Catalina, after her mother's death stepfather Robert Wagner became her legal guardian and later adopted her, and cut off all contact with Natalie Wood's family after sister-in-law Lana Wood wrote a tell-all memoir "Natalie: A Memoir By Her Sister". Natalie Wood's death left deep emotional scars that wood ultimately carry into the dark-edged roles that she would play in Hollywood. Her adopted father Robert Wagner married actress Jill St. John in 1990. Gregson Wagner married actor D.V. DeVincentis in 2003 they divorced in 2008.

Career

Natasha Gregson Wagner's first film role was as Lisa in the Jeff Goldblum film Fathers and Sons in 1992. She than had a small role in the movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer, following that film she starred in several tv movies such as Tainted Blood, The Substitute, Dragstrip Girl, The Shaggy Dog. In 1995 she starred with the adoptive father Robert Wagner in the Hart to Hart tv movie. She starred opposite Lance Henriksen and Giovanni Ribisi in the Wes Craven film The Outpost. In 1996 she starred with Jon Lovitz, Louise Fletcher in the comedy High School High. In the 1997 film Two Girls and a Guy she played Lou, a sexually liberated young woman, who discovers that her actor boyfriend Blake Allen (Robert Downey Jr.) is cheating on her with Carla Bennett (Heather Graham). Gregson Wagner had a small role in the 1998 thriller Urban Legends in which her character Michelle is killed off in the first few minutes by a serial killer hiding in the backseat of her car, that same year she guest starred in an episode of Ally McBeal. In 1999 she had a role in in the tv movie Hefner: Unauthorized as Bobbie Arnstein. In 2000 she had roles in Stranger Than Fiction, High Fidelity opposite John Cusack. In 2003 she played Barbara Richardson in the movie Wonderland the true story about the Wonderland Avenue murders in Laurel Canyon that resulted in the deaths of Ron Launius, Billy Drevell, Barbara Richardson and the homeowner Joy Miller, and left Launius wife Susan Launius in critical condition and what was shocking is the porn star John Holmes was linked to the crime. In 2005 she guest starred on hit tv shows Cold Case and Medium, in 2006 she starred in two episodes of ER "Bloodline" and "21 Guns" as Mary who along with her prisoner boyfriend helping him escape, resulting in kidnapping ER nurse Sam Taggart and her son. From 2005 to 2007 she had a recurring role on the tv show The 4400 as April Skouris the sister of NTAC agent Diana Skouris. In 2008 she guest starred on CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and House M.D. Her current film The Funeral Party is in post-production.

Filmography

• The Accidental Witness (2006)
• ER (2006)
• The 4400 (2005–2007)
• Wonderland (2003)
• Vampires: Los Muertos (2002)
• Pasadena (2001)
• High Fidelity (2000)
• Hefner: Unauthorized (1999)
• Play It to the Bone (1999) (Cameo)
• Another Day in Paradise (1998)
• Modern Vampires (1998)
• Urban Legend (1998)
• Two Girls and a Guy (1997)
• Lost Highway (1997)
• First Love, Last Rites (1997)
• High School High (1996)
• Dragstrip Girl (1994)
• The Substitute (1993)
• Fathers & Sons (1992)
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992)
• Dark Horse (1992)

External links

• Natasha Gregson Wagner at the Internet Movie Database

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