Morag hood biography

Actress

This article is about the actress. For the author, see Morag Hood (author).

Morag Hood (12 December 1942 – 5 October 2002) was a British actress who featured in numerous television programmes, stage productions, and audio presentations in the UK from the 1960s up to the late 1990s.

Morag hood biography

Early life

Hood was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and attended Bellahouston Academy. She was a graduate of the University of Glasgow.^[1]

Career

Television

One of Hood's earliest jobs was as a presenter of youth programmes on Scottish Television in 1963.

In April 1964, she and fellow presenter Paul Young interviewed the Beatles.^[1] The interview, recorded at the Scottish Television studios in Cowcaddens, Glasgow, was thought to be lost for many years.

The reel of 16mm film was found in 2008, in a rusting film can in a south London garage.^[2]

She is best known for playing Natasha Rostova in the epic 1972 BBC television adaptation of War and