Natasha Jane Richardson was an English actress of stage and screen. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret. Richardson died on 18 March 2009 from an epidural haematoma after hitting her head in a skiing accident in Quebec, Canada.
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Natasha Jane Richardson was an English actress of stage and screen. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret. Richardson died on 18 March 2009 from an epidural haematoma after hitting her head in a skiing accident in Quebec, Canada. She was the daughter of director and producer Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave, granddaughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Richardson was married to actor Liam Neeson from 2008 to 2009. She appeared in The Handmaid’s Tale, Nell, The Parent Trap, Maid in Manhattan, The White Countess and A Month in the Country. In 1991, she won the British Evening Standard Award for best actress in The Comfort of Walken. In 1994, she was named Best Actress at the Karl Vary International Film Festival for Widows’ Peak.
She later appeared in Disney’s The Big Fish with Jodie Foster and Christopher Walken, and the same year in Widow’s Peak with Nell. She also appeared in the film adaptation of The Big Favourite with Robert Duvall and Helen Mirren. She died of a heart attack at the age of 48 in February 2013. She is survived by her mother Vanessa and her sister Joely Richardson. Her father Tony Richardson was a producer and director, and her mother is an actress and director. Richardson’s parents divorced in 1967 and she was born in Marylebone, London, and grew up in Hammersmith, London. She made her film debut in an uncredited role in The Charge of the Light Brigade, directed by her father. She starred as Mary Shelley in the 1986 film Gothic, a fictionalised account of the author’s creation of Frankenstein. In 1993, she made her Broadway debut in the title role of Anna Christie.
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