She's been said to be Russian American and a Byzantine-Russian Catholic cross is on her grave:
I did wonder if she was Jewish myself, however-- Russians aren't typically brown-eyed brunettes. Also, we Jews are descended from some of the most-beautiful woman in the world-- e.g., Sarah,
Rivkah,
Rakha'el, and
Le'ah. And (in my opinion), there's just something about Jewish beauty that no other ethnicity has-- which is why Great-Grandma Czarnecki was so beautiful for a Slovakian (No wonder that she was so beautiful: she was a Matrilineal Jew through Anna Trudniakova nee Monkaova.). And
according to IMDB.com, "Though some people cite her mother as being French, her mother is Russian. The
source of this misconception comes from the studio that Natalie worked at when
she was a child -- people noticed her mother's accent and when asked if she was
French, Maria replied: "Oh yes", a white lie that would contribute to this
confusion."
Maria Zakharenkova Gurdinova also "claimed that the family was closely related to the Romanov
dynasty." This story sounds all too familar to that of the Morgiewicz-Andrulewicz and Danilowicz-Chernetski son who was given the identity of the
szlatcha-descended, Polish-Lithuanian Catholic known as Antoni Czarniecki-- and we all remember that Antoni Jan Julianowicz Czarniecki nee Chernetski was revealed to be a
meshumad Yehudi who was forced to become
Anusi because of the pogroms and Anti Semitism in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania-- and the rest of America (Remember that his parents and he were kicked out of Lipsk because of their
Anusi conversion in Roman Catholicism-- which they obviously found out more palatable to pretend to be into than Byzantine-Russian Catholicism, the religion officially forced upon Russian-annexed Poland.).
So, Natalie Wood Wagner-- if she was a beautiful
Ashkenazit Yehudit-- was a lot prettier, smarter, and more talented than those two Anti Semites commenting on my blog will ever be-- and how sad that Anti Semites let envy breed contempt instead of themselves do something with their own lives.
Update (2:54 PM EST): Well, check this: according to JewishGen.org:
Zakharenko |
Bila Tserkva |
Ukraine |
11 Sep 1997 |
Larry Posner (#3317) 611 Nicole Drive Southampton,
PA 18966 United States
Click HERE to contact Larry
Posner (#3317)
Last logged in: before
2004 NF No Forwarding Address |
So one never knows. Advice to the Zakharenko-Wood family, by the way: please contact this guy if you think that you're related to him. He'd love you all so much.