Goodbye Natasha
Yesterday we had another reminder of how precious life is. Natasha Richardson, aged 45, passed away after suffering injuries during a skiing trip. Natasha was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director, Tony Richardson.
She made her screen debut at the age of four in her father’s movie “The Charge of the Light Brigade” which also featured her mother and her uncle Colin Redgrave. Her career then revolved around the theatre and relatively minor roles in UK television such as “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”.
In 1990 she appeared in “A Handmaid’s Tale” with Faye Dunnaway and Robert Duvall and then in 1994 she starred with Jodie Foster in “Nell” where she found herself working with Liam Neeson again and they duly fell in love and married the same year.
In 1998 she won a “Tony” for her performance of Sally Bowles in the New York stage musical “Cabaret”. More recently she appeared in another New York production as Blanche Dubois in “A Streetcar Called Desire” in 2005 and then in January of this year she starred with her mother in a benefit concert of the Stephen Sondheim musical “A Little Night Music”.
Natasha leaves behind her two young sons Michael, 13 and Daniel, 12.
