Cora Wood is a Los Angeles-based 🏷️#actor, 🏷️#producer, and 🏷️#director whose screen credits include a supporting role opposite Sarita Choudhury in the Blumhouse thriller Evil Eye (2020) and a principal bit part in National Treasure: Book of Secrets (2007). A SAG-AFTRA member credited on some projects as Rachel Cora Wood, she trained in New York City, where she performed Off-Broadway and worked in television and film before relocating to 📝Los Angeles, CA.
Wood is a first-generation Jamaican and Romanian American and a cousin of Martine Beswick, the two-time Bond actress. Dance was her first discipline; acting, writing, and directing followed. Her stage work includes Hedvig in The Wild Duck at Bard SummerScape, Edmond with LAByrinth Theater Company, and productions with The Barrow Group, where she studied under Seth Barrish and Lee Brock; she also trained in improvisation at the Upright Citizens Brigade. Television credits include the Fox pilot Past Life and a recurring role in the pilot Graduates, and her lead film roles include Night Train, a Sundance Lab project. She describes her producing and directing work as drawn to "stories society whispers about."
