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Subject: Morag Hood, Scottish Actress

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Date Posted: October 17, 2002 5:37:44 EDT

Morag Hood, a versatile Scottish actress best known internationally as a star of "War and Peace" on the BBC in the 1970's, died in London on Oct. 5. She was 59.

The cause was cancer, British newspapers reported.

A celebrated beauty, Ms. Hood was in her late 20's when she won the coveted role of the girlish Natasha in BBC-TV's lengthy 1972 adaptation of Tolstoy's novel.

The 12 1/2-hour mini-series, also starring Anthony Hopkins and Alan Dobie, was more than two years in the making.

In 1974 she played Stella Kowalski in Tennessee Williams's "Streetcar Named Desire" in the West End of London. In 1976 she went to the National Theater Company, where she played roles ranging from Celia in Ben Jonson's "Volpone" to Esmeralda in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."

Ms. Hood was born in Glasgow on Dec. 12, 1942. Her father was a carpenter who worked in local theaters, and her elder brother Liam was a stage actor.

She performed in repertory theaters in Dundee, Scotland; Liverpool, England; and at Bristol Old Vic before making her West End debut in 1968 in Goldoni's "Servant of Two Masters."

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