Born in Brooklyn [now in New York City], New York, USA — Feb 09 1892• Died Mar 18 1978

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. Wood studied voice in France with the legendary soprano Emma…
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Katie Harris

Sarah Jolland

Mrs. Oliver Jordan

Mother Abbess

Miss Phillips

Naomi

Self (uncredited)

Ethel Francis

Mrs. Payne

Lucy Allerton

Brigitte

Mother Superior (archive footage) (uncredited)

Olga

Meg Whiteoaks

Grace Apley

Ernestine Yates

Nurse Weyland

Eva McElwyn