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My Take
I have always thought Natasha Richardson was the quietly extraordinary member of an extraordinary family. Born into the Redgrave dynasty, she could have coasted on the name, yet her Tony-winning Sally Bowles in Cabaret was entirely her own creation: fragile, funny, and devastating at once. To me she was fundamentally a stage animal, an actress whose intelligence read best in a live room. Her death in 2009 at forty-five remains one of the cruelest losses in modern theatre; we were robbed of her great middle period. Whenever Liam Neeson speaks of her, I am reminded how much warmth she carried offstage too.
Overview
Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress. A member of the Redgrave family, she was a daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director-producer Tony Richardson and a granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. She was married to Liam Neeson.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Natasha Richardson
- Name (Japanese)
- ナターシャ・リチャードソン
- Reading
- なたーしゃ・りちゃーどそん
- Born
- May 11, 1963 – March 18, 2009
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Taurus / Rabbit
- Origin
- Marylebone, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- film actor / film producer / stage actor / actor
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 1998 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical
- 1998 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical
- 1993 Theatre World Award
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Film actor — see all → · Film producer — see all → · More people from United Kingdom →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.