Filmstalker: Closing Credits: Natasha Richardson

The actress Natasha Richardson has died in hospital in New York, following a skiing accident in Canada. The accident originally happened on Monday, with a lot of specualtion about it since. But it has now been confirmed by various news outlets, that she has passed away.

An accomplished stage and screen actress, she will be sorely missed.

Natasha Richardson came from a family of actors, her mother was Vanessa Redgrave and her father Tony Richardson. Natasha Richardson's first feature film role was in Ken Russell's Gothic in 1986. She starred in many films after, including The Comfort of Strangers and Widows' Peak. She also starred with her husband Liam Neeson, alongside Jodie Foster in Nell.

She was also an award winning stage actor, starring in plays such as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet. And she won a Tony award for her role in Sam Mendes' Cabaret in 1998.

Natasha Richardson was an extremely talented actress, and our sympathies are with her family and friends.

Actress Natasha Richardson

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There's Patty Hearst and The Handmaid's Tale to remember too, both great roles that she performed wonderfully.

I'm sure it's been a terrible few days for the family, made worse by some terrible and quite frankly embarrassing press stories where clamoring for a breaking story was more important than the privacy of a family, some of whom were probably finding out through "making a buck" sources.

Give them the space of privacy, that thing that the people behind the stories take for granted.

I can't imagine how it would have felt to have had stories of my mother's death across the "media" before my extended family even knew.

My thoughts are with her family and friends.

Posted by: Richard Brunton | March 19, 2009 7:12 AM

My thought are also with her family and friends.

Posted by: Billy | March 19, 2009 8:13 AM

I was hoping she would pull through. It is a sad day indeed.

I share everyone's sentiments.

Posted by: Simone | March 19, 2009 10:31 AM