Patricia Velasquez

Her younger sister Limairy followed her in the pageant in 1993.
. Now a L'Oreal spokesmodel, she competed in the 1989 Miss Venezuela pageant representing Peninsula Goajira, placing seventh. 1980:. She is one of the highest-paid and most accomplished Hispanic supermodels in history. 1971:. Her character makes her first entrance in the film in remarkably intricate bodypaint. 1970:.

She appeared in the role of Anck Su Namun in the 1999 film The Mummy and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns. 1968:. Full name Patricia Carola Velasquez Semprun. 1967:. Patricia Velasquez (born January 31, 1971) is a Venezuelan actress. 1966:. 1965:.

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. She is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. The exact circumstances of her death remain the subject of much speculation.

She was in the middle of filming of the movie Brainstorm and preparing to make her stage debut in a Los Angeles production of Anastasia, opposite Dame Wendy Hiller, when she drowned in a 1981 overnight accident while their yacht was anchored at Catalina Island, off the coast near Los Angeles at the age of only 43. Her two marriages to actor Robert Wagner, conducted in the public eye, were stormy; but they were once more reconciled at the time of her death. During these years, which were the best of her career as an adult actress, she was a real Hollywood star, and was compared favorably with Elizabeth Taylor. Having a nice voice, she was supposed to sing all her songs; however, in the end she was dubbed by professional singer Marni Nixon, which was to her a great disappointment.

Another of her great films was the musical by Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story, in which she played the leading character Maria. By the time she was 28, she was already a three-time Oscar nominee, winning Academy Award nominations for Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass and Love With the Proper Stranger. A well-known child star, she was one of the relatively few who made the transition to adult stardom. Soon her parents changed their surname to Gurdin, and at the age of 4 she was billed as Natasha Gurdin.

She was born in San Francisco, California as the daughter of Russian immigrants. She was the sister of the also famous actress Lana Wood. Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko (July 20, 1938 - November 29, 1981), better known as Natalie Wood, was an American film actress. C.H.U.D. (1983).

The Last Married Couple in America (1980). Willie and Phil (1980). Corvette Summer (1979). Peeper (1975).

The Candidate (1972). Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969). This Property is Condemned (1966). The Great Race (1965).

Sex and the Single Girl (1964). Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Gypsy (1962). Splendor in the Grass (1961).

West Side Story (1961). All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960). The Searchers (1956). Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

Muir (1947). The Ghost and Mrs. Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Golden Globe Award - From Here to Eternity (1979) (mini) - Best TV Actress: Drama (won!).