Natasha Richardson

Natasha Jane Richardson (born 11 May 1963) is another one of my early heart throbs, a British actress known for her performances on stage, TV and in many films. The first time I saw this incredibly beautiful actress was in the movie The Handmaid's Tale were she played opposite Robert Duval in the lead roll of Kate Offreda, a concubine to the privileged rich classes in an oppressive futuristic society. Its was a very enjoyable film and a fantastic performance by Natasha, one worth remembering, if you have not yet seen it I recommend it highly.

.... In her personal life she has been married to Liam Neeson since late 1994. Richardson and Neeson have two sons: Michael and Daniel. Richardson has also helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS since her father, director Tony Richardson, died of AIDS-related causes in 1991. A good person with a good heart who is both talented beautiful.

.....As I write this blog a terrible tragedy has befallen Natasha, after suffering what appeared to be a minor fall during a private skiing lesson Monday on a beginner's trail at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, she later developed a severe headache, she has been flown back to New York were she has since fallen into a coma. Members of Natasha's family are gathered at the Manhattan hospital where she has been taken, she is not expected to survive. I pray, as we all do, that by some miracle she will survive and make a full recovery. 08/18/09, 8:00pm...

...08/19/09... With great sorrow I write that Natasha died yesterday in New York she was only 45... Ellen Borakove, a spokeswoman said Thursday the death was ruled an accident, and the cause of death was an "epidural hematoma due to blunt impact to the head," It is a tragic loss. It's always sad when an actress as talented as Natasha dies before her time, we are left wondering what other great roles she may have portrayed if she had lived, rolls that will now never come to pass, roll that we have all been deprived of seeing...one can only speculate, my condolences to her family....

Filmography

1968............. The Charge of the Light Brigade

1986..............Gothic

1987............. A Month in the Country

1988............. Patty Hearst

1989............. Fat Man and Little Boy

1990............. The Handmaid's Tale

..................... The Comfort of Strangers

1991............. The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

1992............. Past Midnight

1994............. Nell

..................... Widows' Peak

1998............. The Parent Trap

2001............. Blow Dry

..................... Chelsea Walls
2002............. Waking Up In Reno

......................Maid in Manhattan

2005..............The White Countess

......................Asylum

2007............. Evening

2008............. Wild Child

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Supplimental March 23, 2009

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LITHGOW, N.Y. – A somber group of friends and family gathered in a small Hudson Valley town Sunday to say a final farewell to Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson. Liam Neeson, in a dark suit and sunglasses, was at the head of the casket as he and five other pallbearers carried his wife's coffin into St. Peter's Episcopal Church, near the home where the two married in 1994. After that a graveside service under a large green tent, the 45-year-old actress was buried in a nearby cemetery, near the grave of her maternal grandmother the actress Rachel Kempson, amid hilly horse farms about 80 miles north of New York City....