- Born
- Died
- Birth nameHelen Ann Wood
- Height5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
- Helen Wood was born on April 25, 1935 in Port Arthur, Texas, USA. She was an actress, known for Give a Girl a Break (1953). She died on November 1, 1998 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
- ChildrenMichael Wood Stafford
- ParentsJessie Roberta Moran WoodCaptain Michael Joseph Wood
- RelativesMary Catherine Wood Heilker(Sibling)Matthew Vincent Stafford(Grandchild)
- As Helen Wood, she was directed by two Academy Award winners, Stanley Donen and William Friedkin in mainstream Hollywood films, before she started acting in adult films as Dolly Sharp.
- According to her last husband, Wood believed the only people who would see her adult films were "dirty old men in long raincoats". She didn't even know the title of Deep Throat (1972) until, to her horror, the movie started getting lots of attention from the mainstream press.
- Began appearing in adult films at a time when she was an unemployed single mother. She used the stage name Dolly Sharp, wore different colored wigs, and counted on the comparative anonymity of early 1970s porn. The huge, unexpected success of Deep Throat (1972) dashed Wood's hopes of opening a dance studio for children, and she withdrew from the public eye.
- Worked on Deep Throat (1972) for six days in January 1972. She got $750 and a trip to Miami, where her scenes with Linda Lovelace were filmed.
- Apart from her acrobatic dance skills, Wood was a violin prodigy. At 16 she played a solo in a 1951 episode of the NBC variety program Broadway Open House (1950).
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