Natalie Wood
Natalie Wood (born Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko; July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981) was an American actress who began her career in film as a child and became a Hollywood star as a young adult.
Wood received three Oscar nominations before she was 25.
She began acting in films at age 4 and was given a co-starring role at age 8 in "Miracle on 34th Street" (1947).
As a teenager, she earned a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), followed by a role in John Ford's "The Searchers" (1956).
She starred in the musical films "West Side Story" (1961) and "Gypsy" (1962), and she received nominations for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performances in "Splendor in the Grass" (1961) and "Love with the Proper Stranger" (1963).
Her career continued with films such as "Sex and the Single Girl" (1964), "Inside Daisy Clover" (1964), and "Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" (1969).
Wood was born in San Francisco to Russian immigrant parents.
During the 1970s, she began a hiatus from film and had two children with husband Robert Wagner, whom she married, divorced, and remarried after divorcing her second husband.
She appeared in only three films throughout the decade, but did act in several television productions, including a remake of the film "From Here to Eternity" (1979) for which she received a Golden Globe Award.
Her films represented a "coming of age" for her and Hollywood films in general.
Critics have suggested that Wood's cinematic career represents a portrait of modern American womanhood in transition, as she was one of the few to include both child roles and roles of middle-aged characters.
Wood drowned off Catalina Island on November 29, 1981, at age 43.
The events surrounding her death have been explained by conflicting witness statements, prompting the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department under the instruction of the coroner's office to list her cause of death as "drowning and other undetermined factors" in 2012.
In 2018, Wagner was named a person of interest in the ongoing investigation into her death.
Tasha Smith
Tasha Smith( born February 28, 1971) is an American actress, director and producer.
She began her career in a starring role on the NBC comedy series" Boston Common"( 1996 – 97), and she later appeared in numerous movies and television series.
Smith has appeared in films include" The Whole Ten Yards"( 2004)," Daddy's Little Girls"( 2007)," The Longshots"( 2008)," Couples Retreat"( 2009), and" Jumping the Broom"( 2011).
She starred as Angela Williams in the Tyler Perry films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007), its sequel" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010), and on the television series based on the movies," For Better or Worse"( 2011–2017).
In 2015, she began a recurring role as Carol Holloway on the Fox musical drama series" Empire".
Later in the same year, Smith made her directorial debut.
Denise Boutte
Denise Boutte is an American actress and model, who has appeared in the films" Why Did I Get Married?" as Trina,, as Mandy," Sister's Keeper" and" Noah's Arc".
She starred in the sitcom" Meet the Browns" as Sasha Brown.
Richard Gregson
Richard Gregson( born 5 May 1930 – 21 August 2019) was a British agent, film producer and screenwriter.
He spent his early career working in America, alongside stars such as Robert Redford, Julie Christie, Alan Bates and Gene Hackman and director John Schlesinger.
He married the American actress Natalie Wood on 30 May 1969.
The couple filed for divorce on 1 August 1971, and the divorce was finalised in April of the following year.
Together they had one child, the actress Natasha Gregson Wagner, born 1970.
Gregson was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 33rd Academy Awards for his work on" The Angry Silence" with his elder brother Michael Craig and Bryan Forbes.
Among his clients were Joe Janni, John Schlesinger and Alan Bates.
In 2012, he published a memoir titled" Behind the Screen Door: Tales from the Hollywood Hills".
He was married to the British author Julia Gregson from 1984 until his death in 2019.
On 21 August 2019, his daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, announced his death from Parkinson's Disease in Wales, on her mother's tribute Instagram account.
Also, sharing of photo of him and her together taken earlier in the year.
She stated he was 89 years old.
Katherine Rosman
Katherine Barnett Rosman( born March 2, 1972) is an American writer and reporter for the New York Times, previously at the Wall Street Journal.
She wrote the article about Natasha Gregson Wagner," Mother ’s Death, a Daughter ’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood Story".
Natasha Gregson Wagner
Natasha Gregson Wagner (born September 29, 1970) is an American actress.
She is the daughter of film producer Richard Gregson and actress Natalie Wood.
Sharon Leal
Sharon Ann Leal( born October 17, 1972) is an American actress and singer.
She is known for her roles in movies such as" Dreamgirls This Christmas Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?" and her roles on the television shows" LegacyGuiding Light", and" Boston Public".
Richard T. Jones
Richard Timothy Jones( born January 16, 1972) is an American actor.
Jones is best known for his portrayals of Laveinio in the dramatic film" The Wood"( 1999) and Mike of the dramatic films" Why Did I Get Married?"( 2007) and" Why Did I Get Married Too?"( 2010).
He is also well known for his role as Bruce Van Exel, court services officer on the CBS television series" Judging Amy" that aired from 1999 to 2005.
Lamman Rucker
Lamman Rucker( born October 6, 1971) is an American actor.
Rucker began his career on the daytime soap operas" As the World Turns" and" All My Children", before roles in Tyler Perry's films
" Why Did I Get Married?
Why Did I Get Married Too?", and" Meet the Browns", and its television adaptation.
In 2016, he began starring as Jacob Greenleaf in the Oprah Winfrey Network drama series," Greenleaf".
Michael Jai White
Michael Richard Jai White( born November 10, 1967) is an American actor, director, and martial artist.
He is the first African American to portray a major comic book superhero in a major motion picture, having starred as Al Simmons, the protagonist in the 1997 film" Spawn".
White appeared as Marcus Williams in the Tyler Perry films" Why Did I Get Married?" and" Why Did I Get Married Too?", and starred as the character on the TBS/ OWN comedy- drama television series" Tyler Perry's For Better or Worse".
White portrayed Jax Briggs in and the Cyborg Seth in, the return.
He portrayed boxer Mike Tyson in the 1995 HBO television movie" Tyson".
He also played the title role in the blaxploitation parody film" Black Dynamite", as well as the animated series of the same name.

Question: Why did Natasha Gregson Wagner's mother die?
Answer: drowning