Actress Natasha Richardson has passed away at the age of 45 according to the Hollywood Reporter. Richardson had a distinguished career in film and on the stage.
Richardson was hospitalized earlier this week for injuries to her head while taking a skiing lesson Monday at the Mont Tremblant ski resort north of Montreal. Although she initially showed no signs of injury, she developed a headache about an hour later and was taken first to a local hospital in Ste. Agathe, Quebec, and was then transferred to the Hopital du Sacre-Couer de Montreal.
On Tuesday, she was transported to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, where her family, including husband Liam Neeson and her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, gathered to keep vigil.
A spokesman for the family announced Wednesday evening in New York that she had died.
Tall and coolly elegant, Richardson moved easily between costume drama and contemporary fare. After making her first major film appearance as Mary Shelley in Ken Russell’s 1986 film “Gothic,” she quickly tackled the title role as the kidnapped American heiress in Paul Schrader’s 1988 “Patty Hearst.”
Schrader also cast Richardson opposite Rupert Everett in the tale of an English couple who visit Venice to sort out their relationship in 1990’s “The Comfort of Strangers.”
Her varied screen roles ranged from a sexual enslaved woman in 1990’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” Volker Schlondorff’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s allegorical novel to half of a separated couple reunited by their twins in Disney’s 1998 remake of “The Parent Trap.”
Her survivors include Neeson and their two sons.
The Lasting Tribute website has updated its memorial pages to include Natasha Richardson.
http://www.lastingtribute.co.uk/tribute/richardson/3042550
It’s a respectful memorial to Natasha and somewhere to pay tribute to the family’s fortitude at this difficult time.
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