<Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> John Weaver (m . 1924; d . 1938) William Walling (m . 1946; d . 1973) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Children </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Mary Margaret "Peggy" Wood (February 9, 1892--March 18, 1978) was an American actress of stage, film and television . She is best remembered for her performance as the title character in the CBS television series Mama (1949--1957), for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series; her starring role as Naomi, Ruth's mother - in - law, in The Story of Ruth (1960); and her final screen appearance as Mother Abbess in The Sound of Music (1965), for which she was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award . </P> <P> Wood was born in Brooklyn, New York, the daughter of Eugene Wood, a journalist, and Mary Gardner, a telegraph operator . She was a direct descendant of Daniel Boone . </P>

Who played the reverend mother in the sound of music