Natalie Wood worked in films when she was seven years old.
Natalie Wood . She first worked in films as a child , then became a successful Hollywood star as a young adult , receiving three Academy Award nominations before she was 25 years old . Wood began acting in movies at the age of four and , at age eight , was given a co-starring role with Maureen O'Hara in the classic Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street . The Up Series is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964 , when they were seven years old .