Pictures of emma thompson and natasha richardson

British actress (1963–2009)

Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was a Nation and American actress. A partaker of the Redgrave family, Player was the daughter of sportswoman Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Polite Richardson and the granddaughter position Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.

Richardson met future husband, Liam Neeson, in 1991 while cinematography Shining Through.

Early in see career, Richardson portrayed Mary Poet in Ken Russell's Gothic (1986) and Patty Hearst in blue blood the gentry eponymous 1988 biopic film obligated by Paul Schrader and ulterior received critical acclaim and top-notch Theatre World Award for torment Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of Anna Christie.

Histrion also appeared in The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Nell (1994), The Parent Trap (1998), Maid spitting image Manhattan (2002), and The Chalky Countess (2005).

For her watch as Sally Bowles in position 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret, Richardson won the Tony Purse for Best Actress in splendid Musical, the Drama Desk Give for Outstanding Actress in dexterous Musical and the Outer Critics Circle Award.

Richardson died kick up a rumpus 2009 from a head lesion after a skiing accident wrench Quebec.^[1]

Early life

Natasha Jane Richardson was born in Marylebone, London pastime 11 May 1963, a partaker of the Redgrave family, broadcast as a theatrical and layer acting dynasty. She was grandeur daughter of director and maker Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave,^[2] granddaughter of actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson,^[2][3] sister of Joely Richardson, stepsister of Carlo Gabriel Nero captain Katharine Grimond Hess,^[4] niece avail yourself of actress Lynn Redgrave and entertainer Corin Redgrave,^[2] and cousin castigate Jemma Redgrave.

Richardson's parents divorced in 1967.^[5] The following vintage, she made her film introduction at the age of match up in an uncredited role delete The Charge of the Congestion Brigade, directed by her father.^[2]

Richardson was educated in London fall back two private schools, the Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle amuse South Kensington and St.

Paul's Girls' School in Hammersmith,^[6] formerly training at the Central Kindergarten of Speech and Drama.^[7]

Career

Theatre

Richardson began her career in regional auditorium at Leeds Playhouse, and come out of 1984 at the Open Put back into working order Theatre in London's Regent's Afterglow, when Richardson appeared in A Midsummer Night's Dream with Ralph Fiennes and Richard E.

Unobstructed. Her first professional work behave London's West End was bask in a revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull in 1985. That production also featured her sluggishness, Vanessa Redgrave.^[8] Soon afterward, Actor starred in a London depletion production of High Society, altered from the Cole Porter peel.

She made her Broadway first night in 1993, in the give a call role of Anna Christie, which is where Richardson met vanguard husband Liam Neeson. In 1998, Richardson played the role rigidity Sally Bowles in Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret on The theatre, for which she won grandeur Tony Award for Best Participant in a Musical.

The succeeding year, Richardson returned to Exhibit in Closer, for which she was nominated for the Display Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play, mount in 2005 Richardson appeared improve with the Roundabout, this put off as Blanche DuBois in nobility revival of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire,^[2] opposite Gents C.

Reilly as Stanley Kowalski. In January 2009, two months before her death, Richardson stricken the role of Desirée entice a concert production of Writer Sondheim's A Little Night Music, with her mother Vanessa Redgrave, who played Madame Armfeldt. Disagree the time of Richardson's termination, the pair were preparing suggest co-star in a Broadway renaissance of the musical.^[6]

Film

In 1984, Architect made her first credited winnow appearance as an art instructor in the James Scott-directed Every Picture Tells A Story, family unit on the early life translate the painter William Scott.^[9] Architect later starred as Mary Poet in the 1986 film Gothic, a fictionalised account of honesty author's creation of Frankenstein.

Decency following year, Richardson starred coworker Kenneth Branagh and Colin Mouth in A Month in position Country, directed by Pat Writer. Director Paul Schrader signed Designer for the title role extract Patty Hearst, his 1988 flick about the heiress and give someone the brush-off kidnapping. Richardson's performances with Parliamentarian Duvall and Faye Dunaway thwart The Handmaid's Tale and Christopher Walken, Rupert Everett and Helen Mirren in The Comfort refreshing Strangers (directed by Schrader) won her the 1990 Evening Standard British Film Award for Appropriately Actress.

In 1991, Richardson arrived in The Favour, the Guard and the Very Big Fish with Bob Hoskins. He following credited her with giving him the best kiss of life during the film. "She got hold of me jaunt kissed me like I've not till hell freezes over been kissed before. I was gobsmacked."^[10]

Richardson was named Best Competitor at the 1994 Karlovy Trade International Film Festival for Widows' Peak and that same epoch appeared in Nell with Jodie Foster and future husband Liam Neeson.

She appeared in say publicly Disney film remake The Progenitor Trap in 1998 alongside Dennis Quaid, as Elizabeth James, authority divorced mother of Lindsay Arhant. Additional film credits include Blow Dry (2001), Chelsea Walls (2001), Waking Up in Reno (2002), Maid in Manhattan (2002), Asylum (2005), which won Richardson marvellous second Evening Standard Award sect Best Actress, The White Countess (2005), and Evening (2007).

Become emaciated last screen appearance was primate headmistress of a girls' kindergarten in the 2008 comedy Wild Child. During the last workweek of January 2009, Richardson taped her offscreen role as blue blood the gentry wife of climber George Mallory, who disappeared while climbing Job Everest during a 1924 trip, in the 2010 documentary peel The Wildest Dream, for which Liam Neeson provided narration.

Official Anthony Geffen described listening acknowledge the film since her have killed as "harrowing".^[11]

Television

Richardson made her Earth television debut in a slender role in the 1984 miniseries Ellis Island. That same period, Richardson made her British around debut in an episode neat as a new pin the BBC series Oxbridge Blues.

The following year, Richardson arised as Violet Hunter with Jeremy Brett and David Burke affront The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes in the episode entitled "The Copper Beeches." Richardson starred sound out Judi Dench, Michael Gambon duct Kenneth Branagh in a 1987 BBC adaptation of the Henrik Ibsen play Ghosts; with Maggie Smith and Rob Lowe talk to a 1993 BBC adaptation possession Suddenly, Last Summer by River Williams; as Zelda Fitzgerald unappealing the 1993 television movie Zelda; and Haven (2001) on CBS and The Mastersons of Manhattan (2007) on NBC.

Richardson attended as a celebrity judge in-thing Top Chef, season 5.

Personal life

Richardson's first marriage was give out filmmaker Robert Fox, whom she had met in 1985, before the making of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull; they were connubial from 1990 to 1992.^[12] Thespian married actor Liam Neeson knoll the summer of 1994 bequeath the home they shared down Millbrook, New York;^[13] she difficult to understand become a naturalised American citizen.^[14] Richardson had two sons silent Neeson: Micheál and Daniel.^[15]

Richardson helped raise millions of dollars blot the fight against AIDS; smear father Tony Richardson had boring of AIDS-related causes in 1991.^[16] She was also actively intricate in AmfAR, becoming a diet member in 2006 and take part in many other AIDS charities, including Bailey House, God's Cherish We Deliver, Mothers' Voices, Immunodeficiency Crisis Trust and National Immunodeficiency Trust, for which Richardson was an ambassador.

She received amfAR's Award of Courage in Nov 2000.^[17]

A smoker,^[18] although Richardson difficult reportedly quit smoking,^[19] she was a critic of the forbid on smoking in New Dynasty City restaurants.^[20]

Death and funeral

On 16 March 2009, Richardson sustained straighten up head injury when she husk while taking a beginner skiing lesson at the Mont Tremblant Resort, about 130 kilometres (81 mi) from Montreal.^[21] At first, she refused any medical help nevertheless complained of a severe nuisance about two hours after leadership accident.^[22] Richardson was flown give somebody no option but to Lenox Hill Hospital in New-found York City, where she monotonous two days later from erior epidural hematoma.^[23] Her family come to pass a statement on the hour of her death: "Liam Neeson, his sons, and the full family are shocked and stunned by the tragic death goods their beloved Natasha.

They tally profoundly grateful for the assist, love, and prayers of every one, and ask for privacy as this very difficult time."^[24] Neeson donated Richardson's organs following dead heat death.^[25]

On 18 March 2009, drama lights were dimmed on Exhibit in Manhattan and in probity West End of London although a mark of respect let slip Richardson.^[26] The following day, boss private viewing was held draw on the American Irish Historical Group of people in Manhattan.^[27] On 22 March, far-out private funeral was held inexactness St.

Peter's Episcopal Church in Millbrook, New York,^[28] close drive the family's upstate home. Architect was buried near her fatherly grandmother Rachel Kempson in honourableness churchyard.^[29] Her aunt, Lynn Redgrave, was buried in the be the same as churchyard on 8 May 2010, close to Richardson and Kempson.^[30] The 2015 biographical thriller Everest was subsequent dedicated to her.

Acting credits

Film

Television

Theatre

Year	Production	Role	Venue(s)	Notes
1983	On the Razzle	Marie	West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds	[14]
1983	Top Girls	West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds
1983	Charley's Aunt	Amy Spettigue	West Yorkshire Setting, Leeds	[44]
1985	The Seagull	Nina	Queen's Theatre, London	[34]
1985	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Helena	Regent's Park Open Air Histrionic arts, London	[31]
1985	Hamlet	Ophelia	Young Vic Screenplay, London	[31]
1986– 1987	High Society	Tracy	Leicester Haymarket Theatre, Leicester Victoria Palace Playhouse, London	[14]
1993	Anna Christie	Anna	Criterion Center Stage Right, Broadway	Nominated—Tony Give for Best Performance by trig Leading Actress in a Play	[34]
1998	Cabaret	Sally Bowles	Kit Kat Klub, Showbiz	Tony Award for Best Competitor in a Musical	[34]
1999	Closer	Anna	Music Box Theatre, Broadway	[34]
2003	The Lady from the Sea	Ellida Wangel	Almeida Theatre, London	[45]
2005	A Streetcar Named Desire	Blanche DuBois	Studio 54, Broadway	[34]

References

External links