Svetlana Nikolaevna Zakharenko
5' 2" (1.57 m)
36C/D-24-35
March 1, 1946
I interviewed Miss Lana during 2004 and my article is now available in my interviews section.
Miss Wood is a delightful person and immensely popular at numerous autograph conventions
and is a terrific person to work with and always has a smile for her fans.
Lane has a daughter, Evan, and two grandchildren - Max & Daphne.
Best known for playing Bond girl Plenty O'Toole, the unfortunate casino gal who gets thrown half naked out of a hotel window and into a pool in "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971). She was 25 at the time.
Two of Lana's scenes as Plenty O'Toole in "Diamonds Are Forever" (1971) were deleted from the final film but are now available on DVD. The first scene is a deleted scene of Lana having dinner with Sean Connery. The second scene took place after Lana was thrown half naked into the pool; she returned to James Bond's apartment, soaking wet, wearing nothing but a white towel and to get the rest of her clothes and see what has become of Bond and sees him making love to Tiffany Case (Jill St. John). Before leaving, an agitated Lana took a card out of Tiffany's purse with her address on it; this second scene accounted for her death later in the film.
Said that she had to stand on a box during most of her scenes with Sean Connery in "Diamonds Are Forever" because even with high heels she was too short to fit into the camera frame with him.
In two of her films her character is prominently featured being sent out of a window. In The Searchers (1956), where she played the young version of her older sister Natalie's character, she is sent out of a window and told to hide from the Indians who are coming to attack their range. In Diamonds Are Forever (1971) her character, Plenty O'Toole, is thrown half naked out of a hotel window to almost certain death (but survives by landing in the pool)
