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Mary Margaret Wood (February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film, and television.
Peggy Wood. Actress: The Sound of Music. Above all else, singer/actress Peggy Wood has endeared herself to both TV and film audiences with one single role in each medium. She made warm, lasting impressions as the benevolent, strong-willed Scandinanvian matriarch Marta Hansen in the series drama Mama (1949), and as the knowing Mother Abbess who ...
Peggy Wood. Actress: The Sound of Music. Above all else, singer/actress Peggy Wood has endeared herself to both TV and film audiences with one single role in each medium. She made warm, lasting impressions as the benevolent, strong-willed Scandinanvian matriarch Marta Hansen in the series drama Mama (1949), and as the knowing Mother Abbess who ...
Mama: With Peggy Wood, Judson Laire, Dick Van Patten, Rosemary Rice. This well-received series was a comedy-drama about an immigrant family living in 1910s San Francisco.
The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical drama film produced and directed by Robert Wise from a screenplay written by Ernest Lehman, and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, with Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood, Charmian Carr, and Eleanor Parker.
Nevertheless, after eight years of playing Marta Hansen, Peggy Wood was honored with her first Emmy nomination as best actress in a drama series. Her first nomination was for her work on Mama during the 1952–1953 television season.
Biography. Mary Margaret Wood was an American actress of stage, film, and television. She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother-in-law, in The ...
Born in 1892 in Brooklyn, New York, actress Peggy Wood was the daughter of Mary Gardner Wood and Eugene Wood, a feature writer for the New York World. She began studying voice as a child because her father wanted to ensure that she had a marketable skill; her instructors included Arthur Van der Linde and Emma Calvé .
Peggy Wood was an actress who founded her entertainment career success with roles in film. In 1917, she had her first leading stage role in "Maytime." In 1910, she made her professional...
Mary Margaret Wood (also known as Peggy Wood; February 9, 1892 – March 18, 1978) was an American actress. She acted mostly in stage plays, but was also in some television series and movies. She played Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music in 1965.
