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Peggy Wood

Peggy Wood

Acting
09 Feb 1892
18 Mar 1978
Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA

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 Story of Ruth; and her final screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music, for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. W...

Also Known As

Mary Margaret Wood, Mary Margaret "Peggy" Wood

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