Natasha Richardson Dies 1963-2009 R.I.P.

Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 18 March 2009) was an English actress known for her performances on stage and screen. She was a member of the Redgrave family and the daughter of the actress Vanessa Redgrave and the director/producer Tony Richardson. Richardson rose to international stardom with her Tony award-winning performance as Sally Bowles in the musical play Cabaret in New York City on Broadway in 1998.

Richardson was brought up in London; she attended St. Paul's Girls' School before training at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. Richardson was married twice. Her first marriage was to filmmaker Robert Fox, whom she divorced in 1992. She married Irish actor Liam Neeson in late 1994. Richardson and Neeson have two sons: Micheál and Daniel. Her father died of AIDS-related causes in 1991. Richardson helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS through the charity amfAR, the Foundation for AIDS Research. Richardson died in 2009 from a head injury sustained in a skiing accident in Canada.
Richardson began her career in regional theatre, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, England. Her screen debut in Every Picture Tells a Story in 1984, was followed by a CBS miniseries, Ellis Island. A year later, Richardson appeared in a revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull; her first professional work in London's West End.[4] That same year she made her UK television debut alongside Jeremy Brett and David Burke in The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes appearing as Violet Hunter in the episode "The Copper Beeches". Soon after, she starred in a London stage production of High Society, adapted from the acclaimed Cole Porter film, and successively portrayed Mary Shelley in the 1987 Ken Russell film, Gothic. In 1998 she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Sally Bowles in the Roundabout Theatre Company's production of the Sam MendesRob Marshall helmed revival of Kander & Ebb's Cabaret.[2] In 2005, she appeared again with the Roundabout, this time as Blanche DuBois in their revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire,[2] opposite John C. Reilly's Stanley Kowalski.
The same year she starred opposite Kenneth Branagh and Colin Firth in A Month in the Country, directed by Pat O'Connor. A major moment in advancement was her starring role in The Handmaid's Tale (1990), playing opposite Robert Duvall and Faye Dunaway. She starred in Nell (1994) alongside her future husband, Liam Neeson, and Jodie Foster.

On 16 March 2009, Richardson sustained a traumatic brain injury when she was involved in a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblant Resort in Canada.[13] She had been receiving skiing lessons when she fell. She initially showed no sign of injury but was later taken to Centre Hospitalier Laurentien after complaining of feeling unwell, and was tranferred from there to the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal in critical condition.[14] The next day she was transferred to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York where she died on 18 March after being removed from life support.

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[mdryden02]

101 Dalmations?

[DisneysBack1]

She could take it with the best of them outside and inside.

[AMontage]

she was hot :( so sorry

[TashaRichardsonFan]

RIP My dear Natasha:(

[kaaty09]

I cant believe shes died!Its so sad and so sudden, i loved her as an actress she was so gd in wild child and 101 dalmations. RIP x

[rebeccawilde]

:'(

[valediavoletto]

R.I.P. from Italy

[JBrettGroup]

This is so sad!!!