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Natasha Richardson
Natasha Richardson died on Wednesday 18th March in a New York hospital after a skiing accident in Canada. She was 45 years old.
Her family, including husband Liam Neeson, were with her during the final moments. A statement released by Neeson’s publicist said that the family was "shocked and devastated by the tragic death of their beloved Natasha. They are profoundly grateful for the support, love and prayers of everyone, and ask for privacy during this very difficult time."
Richardson fell during a lesson on the beginner’s slope at the Mont Tremblant resort in Quebec on Monday. The accident initially appeared to be minor, but she began suffering headaches within an hour. She was transferred to Montreal when her injuries became critical, and flown to New York on Tuesday.
Neeson rushed from the Toronto set of the film, Chloe, to be at his wife’s side, and they were joined in Manhattan by their sons, Michael and Daniel; Richardson’s mother, actress Vanessa Redgrave; and her sister, actress Joely Richardson.
It is believed that Richardson suffered a traumatic brain injury. She died at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York after being removed from life support.
On the big screen, Richardson starred in The Handmaid’s Tale, Nell, Maid In Manhattan and, most recently, Wild Child. She had a raft of TV credits too, and was an acclaimed, Tony Award-winning stage actress.
We express our deepest sympathies to her family at this time and our hope that they will find comfort in the face of this tragedy. She was a star that blazed brightly and all too briefly and we are the poorer for her loss.
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Rupert Everett remembers Natasha Richardson -
18 September 2012
-Actor Rupert Everett has told how he "plunged into a terrible depression" after the death of former co-star Natasha Richardson.-The actress passed away after hitting her head while skiing in Quebec, Canada in 2009, just days after she had watched Everett perform in New Yor
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Richardson's uncle dedicates performance to tragic star -
22 March 2009
-The uncle of actress Natasha Richardson paid a moving tribute to his late niece, dedicating his theatre performance on Friday (20Mar09) night to the star.-
-Corin Redgrave, brother of Richardson's mother, Vanessa Redgrave, returned to the London stage for his role in Trumb
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Foster remembers 'brilliant, beautiful' Richardson -
20 March 2009
-Jodie Foster has become the latest star to pay tribute to actress Natasha Richardson, who died on Wednesday (18Mar09).-
-In a statement, Foster, who starred alongside Richardson and her husband Liam Neeson in 1994 movie Nell, remembers her as a woman who "loved fiercely".-
Natasha Richardson - what members say
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Natasha Richardson - filmography
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The Wildest Dream
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Conrad Anker, Hugh Dancy, Ralph Fiennes
Director: Anthony Geffen
Certificate: 
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
 
66%
from 262 members
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Wild Child - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Emma Roberts, Aidan Quinn, Natasha Richardson
Director: Nicholas Moore
Certificate: 
Teen comedy. When pampered LA princess Poppy Moore (Emma Roberts) is sent off to a strict English boarding school after pushing her indulgent father too far with an over-the-top prank, she decides to do everything she can to get expelled from the school as quickly as possible - including snogging ..read more »
72%
from 59 members
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Wild Child
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Emma Roberts, Natasha Richardson, Nick Frost
Director: Nicholas Moore
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Wild Child tells the comic story of sixteen year old Poppy (Emma Roberts), a rebellious American teenager who, after numerous warnings by her father (Aidan Quinn), is sent to a strict all-girls boarding school in the U.K. in an attempt to straighten out her behaviour. Under the watchful eye of the ..read more »
68%
from 21,358 members
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Evening
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Vanessa Redgrave
Director: Lajos Koltai
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A drama exploring the romantic past and emotional present of Ann Grant and her daughters, Constance and Nina. As Ann lays dying, she remembers, and is moved to convey to her daughters, the defining moments in her life 50 years prior, when she was a young woman. Harris is the man Ann loves in the ..read more »
58%
from 5,502 members
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Asylum
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Judy Parfitt, Hugh Bonneville, Natasha Richardson
Director: David Mackenzie
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David MacKenzie directs Natasha Richardson in this dark drama based on the novel by Patrick McGrath. In the 1950s, Stella (Richardson) follows her husband Max (Hugh Bonneville) when he takes up a post at a psychiatric hospital. Stella is soon drawn to charismatic inmate Edgar (Marton Csokas), and ..read more »
52%
from 5,986 members
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White Countess
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Madeleine Potter, Ralph Fiennes
Director: James Ivory
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Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars. Todd Jackson (mid-40s), once an American diplomat filled with idealism, has lost his sight several years ..read more »
57%
from 4,747 members
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Maid In Manhattan
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci
Director: Wayne Wang
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Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo to her friends) stars in this romantic comedy as Marisa Ventura, a single mother who works as a maid in one of New York's top hotels, but has aspirations to do better. Holding her back is her mother (Priscilla Lopez), who thinks she should accept who and what she is and leave ..read more »
58%
from 19,963 members
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Maid In Manhattan - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Stanley Tucci
Director: Wayne Wang
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Jennifer Lopez (J-Lo to her friends) stars in this romantic comedy as Marisa Ventura, a single mother who works as a maid in one of New York's top hotels, but has aspirations to do better. Holding her back is her mother (Priscilla Lopez), who thinks she should accept who and what she is and leave ..read more »
50%
from 722 members
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Waking up in Reno
(2001)
Starring: Tony Orlando, Natasha Richardson, Holmes Osborne
Director: Jordan Brady
Certificate:
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Romantic comedy about two Arkansas redneck couples who decide to go on holiday together. Roy (Patrick Swayze) and his young wife, Candy (Charlize Theron) accompany their best friends, car dealer Lonnie Earl (Billy Bob Thornton) and his wife Darlene (Natasha Richardson) on a trip to the Monster ..read more »
55%
from 717 members
Currently unavailable
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Blow Dry
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Rosemary Harris
Director: Paddy Breathnach
Certificate:
When Ray Roberts (Bill Nighy) arrives in small-town Keighley to take part in the Annual British Hairdressing Championship, he seeks out his old colleague Phil (Alan Rickman), a former golden boy of the competition circuit who inexplicably left styling behind to become an ordinary barber. Phil ..read more »
61%
from 1,720 member
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Haven
(2001)
Starring: Martin Landau, Hal Holbrook, Natasha Richardson
Director: John Gray
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The true story of one woman's attempt to help a group of Holocaust survivors settle in America. The year is 1944, and US citizen Ruth Gruber (Natasha Richardson) journeys to Europe with the intention of helping as many Jews as possible escape Hitler's persecutions. Thanks to her efforts, a ship is ..read more »
54%
from 155 members
Not currently released
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The Parent Trap
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Lindsay Lohan, Natasha Richardson, Dennis Quaid
Director: Charles Shyer, Nancy Meyers
Certificate:
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Hallie Parker and Annie James are two young girls living thousands of miles apart who have one thing in common: they are in fact identical twins. American Hallie and Brit Annie (both played by Lindsay Lohan) discover they share the same genes when they bump into each other at summer camp, and ..read more »
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from 8,710 members
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Nell
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Natasha Richardson, Richard Libertini
Director: Michael Apted
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A woman is brought to civilization after spending her life in the wilds in this drama. Dr. Jerome Lovell (Liam Neeson) happens upon a shack deep in the woods, where he discovers a strange woman who appears to be about 30, speaking an incomprehensible language. The woman, named Nell (Jodie Foster), ..read more »
69%
from 3,076 members
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Widow's Peak
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Jim Broadbent, Joan Plowright
Director: John Irvin
Certificate:
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In 1920s Widows Peak, a small village in Ireland, the community is thrown into disarray with the arrival of a beautiful young widow. Joan Plowright plays the village matriarch, Mrs Doyle Counihan, who prides herself on knowing all the comings and goings in the community, and everything about ..read more »
60%
from 229 members
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The Comfort Of Strangers
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Rupert Everett, Natasha Richardson, Helen Mirren
Director: Paul Schrader
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In this erotic thriller, a young English couple on vacation in Venice find themselves seduced by a mysterious older couple. Mary (Natasha Richardson) and Colin (Rupert Everett) have come to Italy to chart the future of their troubled relationship. They soon meet Robert (Christopher Walken), the ..read more »
49%
from 1,386 member
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The Handmaid's Tale
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn
Director: Volker Schlondorff
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In the not-so-distant future, strong-willed and beautiful Kate (Richardson) possesses a precious commodity that most women have lost and most men want to control, violently if necessary... fertility. Forced into a brain-washing bootcamp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-..read more »
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from 2,897 members
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Shadowmakers
(1989)
Starring: Dwight Schultz, Natasha Richardson, Paul Newman
Director: Roland Joffe
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Roland Joffe's film explores the wartime race between America and Germany to develop the atomic bomb. Under the guidance of General Groves (Paul Newman) the American military continue their efforts to formulate the bomb, despite discovering that the enemy isn't working on a project such as theirs. ..read more »
60%
from 373 members
Not currently released
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Patty Hearst
(1988)
Starring: Natasha Richardson, Frances Fisher, William Forsythe
Director: Paul Schrader
Certificate: 
The true story of Patty Hearst, the millionaire's daughter kidnapped and brainwashed by the Symbionese Liberation Army. She subsequently took part in terrorist action before being captured by the FBI and put on trial.
47%
from 188 members
Currently unavailable
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A Month In the Country
(1987)
Starring: Patrick Malahide, Natasha Richardson, Mar
Director: Pat O'Connor
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A story of unrequited love and the making of a friendship. Two veterans of World War One (Colin Firth and Kenneth Branagh) meet in a Yorkshire village. Colin Firth is working inside the local church painting a mural, but discovers a medieval fresco. Meanwhile, Kenneth Branagh is uncovering Saxon ..read more »
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from 1,054 member
Currently unavailable
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Gothic
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Dexter Fletcher, Natasha Richardson, Gabriel Byrne
Director: Ken Russell
Certificate:
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Director Ken Russell applies his trademark excess to this surreal, experimental examination of the creative dementia which shaped Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein. The story is embellished from events which allegedly took place at the Swiss villa of Lord Byron (Gabriel Byrne) on the night ..read more »
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from 953 members
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...an excellent supporting cast including Dennis Quaid (Frequency, the Rookie) and Natasha Richardson (Maid in Manhattan) they have alot to work with in this laugh out loud script w...
