This is from CBC.ca but I will add some of my thoughts after the story:
British stage and screen star Natasha Richardson has died in New York after suffering a head injury while skiing at Quebec's Mont Tremblant resort on Monday.
A family spokesperson made the announcement Wednesday evening.
Richardson, 45, was a celebrated film, TV and stage actress with prolific credits on both sides of the Atlantic. She came from an esteemed family of British actors.
Her maternal grandparents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, and her Oscar-winning parents were Vanessa Redgrave and the late Tony Richardson.
Her younger sister, Joely Richardson, is an actor, as are her aunt Lynn Redgrave, uncle Corin Redgrave and aunt Kika Markham.
Though Richardson and her husband, Irish actor Liam Neeson, were based in U.S., where their teenaged sons Michael and Daniel were born, she trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.
A familiar face for movies such as The Handmaid's Tale, The Comfort of Strangers, Nell and The Parent Trap, Richardson is most noted for her extensive stage career.
Theatre accolades began flowing in 1986, when she was dubbed the most promising newcomer by the London Drama Critics Circle for a turn in The Seagull opposite her mother.
By 1998, when she starred as Sally Bowles in Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret, Richardson was awarded a raft of best actress trophies, including Tony, Outer Critics circle and Drama Desk Awards.
After starring in a one-night benefit concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music with her mother in January, Richardson had been slated to reprise the role in a planned upcoming production.
She had also been set to star in a December revival of August Strindberg's Miss Julie on Broadway, along with Philip Seymour Hoffman.
On Monday afternoon, the 45-year-old Richardson was taking a lesson on a beginner's slope at Quebec's Mont Tremblant ski resort north of Montreal.
The actress, who was not wearing a helmet, suffered what initially appeared to be a benign fall, not hitting anyone or anything else, according to the resort.
"She showed no injuries," Mont Tremblant spokeswoman Lyne Lortie told CBC News on Tuesday. "She was talking. She seemed all right. But [the ski patrol] have to follow strict procedures, so they brought her back to the bottom of the slope.
Richardson agreed to return to her hotel room, accompanied by the ski patrol and her instructor.
About an hour later, she complained of a headache and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, Centre Hospitalier Laurentien in Ste-Agathe. She was eventually transferred to Montreal's larger Sacré-Coeur hospital.
Neeson immediately left the Toronto set of the Atom Egoyan film Chloe to join her Monday evening in Montreal.
Around midday on Tuesday, the actress was taken by private plane to New York, where the couple lives with their sons.
Family members — including the two boys and Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave — were seen arriving at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital on Tuesday evening.
I think what really gets me about this story is all the conflicting reports that came out on Monday shortly when the accident happened. At first, it sounded like she was brain dead then the next she was okay and even joking with people. It was almost too close to home for me. My dad suffered through a traumatic brain injury via a terrible car accident and while my dad survived, I did get conflicting reports on his condition.
I think this is a sad passing. I wasn't a huge fan of Natasha Richardson but I did first become a big fan of hers when she appeared in the remake of The Parent Trap back in 1998 and have been a fan since, even slogging through terrible movies like Maid in Manhattan (I wanted to see that film because she was in it). I also admired the fact that she came from an acting dynasty and really loved her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, when she was in Howards End.
Richardson was 45 when she died and I think she still had a great career ahead of her with tons of wonderful performances both on stage and on film.
British stage and screen star Natasha Richardson has died in New York after suffering a head injury while skiing at Quebec's Mont Tremblant resort on Monday.
A family spokesperson made the announcement Wednesday evening.
Richardson, 45, was a celebrated film, TV and stage actress with prolific credits on both sides of the Atlantic. She came from an esteemed family of British actors.
Her maternal grandparents were Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, and her Oscar-winning parents were Vanessa Redgrave and the late Tony Richardson.
Her younger sister, Joely Richardson, is an actor, as are her aunt Lynn Redgrave, uncle Corin Redgrave and aunt Kika Markham.
Though Richardson and her husband, Irish actor Liam Neeson, were based in U.S., where their teenaged sons Michael and Daniel were born, she trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama.
A familiar face for movies such as The Handmaid's Tale, The Comfort of Strangers, Nell and The Parent Trap, Richardson is most noted for her extensive stage career.
Theatre accolades began flowing in 1986, when she was dubbed the most promising newcomer by the London Drama Critics Circle for a turn in The Seagull opposite her mother.
By 1998, when she starred as Sally Bowles in Sam Mendes' revival of Cabaret, Richardson was awarded a raft of best actress trophies, including Tony, Outer Critics circle and Drama Desk Awards.
After starring in a one-night benefit concert performance of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music with her mother in January, Richardson had been slated to reprise the role in a planned upcoming production.
She had also been set to star in a December revival of August Strindberg's Miss Julie on Broadway, along with Philip Seymour Hoffman.
On Monday afternoon, the 45-year-old Richardson was taking a lesson on a beginner's slope at Quebec's Mont Tremblant ski resort north of Montreal.
The actress, who was not wearing a helmet, suffered what initially appeared to be a benign fall, not hitting anyone or anything else, according to the resort.
"She showed no injuries," Mont Tremblant spokeswoman Lyne Lortie told CBC News on Tuesday. "She was talking. She seemed all right. But [the ski patrol] have to follow strict procedures, so they brought her back to the bottom of the slope.
Richardson agreed to return to her hotel room, accompanied by the ski patrol and her instructor.
About an hour later, she complained of a headache and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, Centre Hospitalier Laurentien in Ste-Agathe. She was eventually transferred to Montreal's larger Sacré-Coeur hospital.
Neeson immediately left the Toronto set of the Atom Egoyan film Chloe to join her Monday evening in Montreal.
Around midday on Tuesday, the actress was taken by private plane to New York, where the couple lives with their sons.
Family members — including the two boys and Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave — were seen arriving at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital on Tuesday evening.
I think what really gets me about this story is all the conflicting reports that came out on Monday shortly when the accident happened. At first, it sounded like she was brain dead then the next she was okay and even joking with people. It was almost too close to home for me. My dad suffered through a traumatic brain injury via a terrible car accident and while my dad survived, I did get conflicting reports on his condition.
I think this is a sad passing. I wasn't a huge fan of Natasha Richardson but I did first become a big fan of hers when she appeared in the remake of The Parent Trap back in 1998 and have been a fan since, even slogging through terrible movies like Maid in Manhattan (I wanted to see that film because she was in it). I also admired the fact that she came from an acting dynasty and really loved her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, when she was in Howards End.
Richardson was 45 when she died and I think she still had a great career ahead of her with tons of wonderful performances both on stage and on film.
I do have a sort of personal Natasha Richardon story. While I never met her, I do remember back in 2004 when Liam Neeson came to the Toronto International Film Festival for Kinsey and Richardson accompanied him to the red carpet, I was staked out across the street from Roy Thompson Hall with my telephoto lens and took pictures of them as they got out of their limo and moved along the red carpet. Here are some of the pictures that I took.
