Natasha Richardson

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Natasha Jane Richardson 11 May 1963 18 March 2009 was an English actress of stage and screen A member of the Redgrave family she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and directorproducer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson Early in her career she portrayed Mary Shelley and Patty Hearst in feature films and she received critical acclaim and a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of Anna Christie 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 for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret Some of her notable films included Patty Hearst 1988 The Handmaids Tale 1990 Nell 1994 The Parent Trap 1998 and Maid in Manhattan 2002 Her first marriage to filmmaker Robert Fox ended in divorce in 1992 In 1994 she married Irish actor Liam Neeson whom she had met when the two appeared in Anna Christie The couple had two sons Micheál and Daniel Richardsons father died of AIDSrelated causes in 1991 She helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS through the charity amfAR the American Foundation for AIDS Research Richardson died in 2009 following a head injury sustained when she fell during a skiing lesson in Quebec Description above from the Wikipedia article Natasha Richardson licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia