Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, Richardson was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.
Early in her career, she portrayed Mary Shelley in Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986) and Patty Hearst in the eponymous 1988 biopic film directed by Paul Schrader and later received critical acclaim and a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of Anna Christie. She also appeared in The Handmaid’s Tale (1990), Nell (1994), The Parent Trap (1998), Maid in Manhattan (2002), and The White Countess (2005).
For her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret, she won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award.
Richardson died in New York City, on 18 March 2009, from an epidural hematoma after a skiing accident in Quebec, Canada.[1]
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Natasha Jane Richardson was born and raised in Marylebone, London on May 11, 1963, a member of the Redgrave family, known as a theatrical and film acting dynasty. She was the daughter of director and producer Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave,[2] granddaughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson,[2][3] sister of Joely Richardson, half-sister of Carlo Gabriel Nero and Katharine Grimond Hess,[4] niece of actress Lynn Redgrave and actor Corin Redgrave,[2] and cousin of Jemma Redgrave.
Richardson’s parents divorced in 1967.[5] The following year, she made her film debut at the age of four in an uncredited role in The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by her father.[2]
Richardson was educated in London at two independent schools, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle in South Kensington and St. Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith,[6] before training at the Central School of Speech and Drama.
Personal life
Richardson’s first marriage was to filmmaker Robert Fox, whom she had met in 1985, during the making of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull; they were married from 1990 to 1992.[12] She married actor Liam Neeson in the summer of 1994 at the home they shared in Millbrook, New York;[13] she had become a naturalised American citizen.[14] Richardson had two sons with Neeson: Micheál (born 1995) and Daniel (born 1996).
She helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS; her father Tony Richardson had died of AIDS-related causes in 1991.[15] She was also actively involved in AmfAR, becoming a board member in 2006 and participating in many other AIDS charities, including Bailey House, God’s Love We Deliver, Mothers’ Voices, AIDS Crisis Trust and National AIDS Trust, for which she was an ambassador. She received amfAR’s Award of Courage in November 2000.[16]
An avid smoker,[17] although she had reportedly quit smoking,[18] Richardson was an outspoken critic of the ban on smoking in New York City restaurants.[19]
Injury and death
On 16 March 2009, Richardson sustained a head injury when she fell while taking a beginner skiing lesson at the Mont Tremblant Resort, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) from Montreal.[20] At first, she refused any medical help but complained of a severe headache about two hours after the accident. She was flown to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where she died two days later from an epidural hematoma.[21] Richardson’s family issued a statement on the day of her death: “Liam Neeson, his sons, and the entire family are shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Natasha. They are profoundly grateful for the support, love, and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time.”[22]
On 19 March 2009, theatre lights were dimmed on Broadway in Manhattan and in the West End of London as a mark of respect for Richardson.[23] The following day, a private viewing was held at the American Irish Historical Society in Manhattan.[24] On 22 March 2009, a private funeral was held at St. Peter’s Episcopal Church near Millbrook, New York,[25] close to the family’s upstate home. Richardson was buried near her maternal grandmother Rachel Kempson in the churchyard.[26] Richardson’s aunt, Lynn Redgrave, was buried in the same churchyard on 8 May 2010, near Richardson and Kempson.[27]
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