Natasha Richardson has lost her fight for life following a skiing accident on Monday. The actress, best known for roles in The Handmaid's Tale and The White Countess, fell and hurt her head on a ski slope and slipped into a coma shortly afterwards. She leaves behind husband Liam Neeson and two sons.
Richardson was the scion of an acting dynasty, the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson and granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave. While such a family pedigree put pressure on the young Natasha, she proved time and again, on stage and on screen, that she had inherited her family's talent. She met Neeson while appearing opposite him on Broadway, and married him in the same year that they filmed Nell together, with Jodie Foster.
Our thoughts go out to her family following this sudden and tragic death.