Thursday, March 19, 2009

Actress Natasha Richardson dies at 45

Tony award winning actress Natasha Richardson died Wednesday from injuries suffered after a fall on a Canadian ski slope Monday. She was 45.

Her husband, actor Liam Neeson, and her two sons, Michael, 13 and Daniel, 12, were by her side.

Ms. Richardson initially appeared uninjured by the fall, but an hour later complained of a headache. She was eventually flown to a hospital in New York City as her condition worsened.

She was the daughter of Academy Award-winning actress and human rights activist Vanessa Redgrave and the Oscar-winning director and producer Tony Richardson.

She won a Tony Award for a 1998 revival of the musical "Cabaret," in which she played the bohemian showgirl Sally Bowles, and starred in a variety of film, television and stage productions, ranging from Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" (2005) on Broadway to a Disney remake of "The Parent Trap" (1998) in Hollywood.

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