Vanessa Redgrave: Reliving Daughter's Death | Fox News Vanessa Redgrave: Reliving Daughter's Death By Roger Friedman The unbelievable tragedy of the death of Natasha Richardson is certainly most awful for her family. But it must be so much worse for her mother, the legendary actress Vanessa Redgrave . For most of 2007, the great Redgrave played writer Joan Didion on Broadway in her play, "The Year of Magical Thinking." Didion, who reportedly visited Redgrave during Natasha’s final hours in the hospital yesterday, wrote the play from her searing memoir about losing her daughter Quintana just a few years earlier. The one woman show was a monologue that showed how Didion coped first with the death of her husband, the writer John Gregory Dunne, from a sudden heart attack. At the time, Quintana was in a coma. When Quintana awakened, her beloved father was dead. Within a year, she too, would pass away, leaving a young husband and a child.. Both the book and the play became instant classics. Redgrave’s performance was highly praised, and she was nominated for a Tony Award.

The book begins: Life changes in an instant You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." Natasha Richardson’s untimely and peculiar death echoes that of Quintana, Didion’s beloved daughter. It happened in an instant. With little explanation. And something about Richardson’s death has touched people who never even heard of her, or knew little about her. Maybe they knew she was part of the famous Redgrave acting family, or that she was Liam Neeson ’s wife. And that may be why this tragedy has so affected us: somewhere in the back of our minds we knew that sexy, funny, smart, incredibly talented Natasha Richardson was uptown, being a mom and a wife, doing her own thing, that she was a cut above the rest and that she could jump back into her career any time she wanted. If she wanted. It made her accessible and cool. Richardson never really sought the spotlight, or desired to be a movie star. She came to America to escape the Redgrave legacy, and to act. That she did, becoming a sensation on Broadway and a regular player in movies both big and small.

There’s no doubt that had she lived, there was a movie role in her future that would bring her massive acclaim and respect on the level of the Academy Award. But she was in no hurry. Like her mother, Vanessa, aunt Lynn, sister Joely, she had nothing to prove. The Redgrave simply have ‘it,’ the ability to absorb into a role and inhabit it. And so Vanessa Redgrave did that with the Year of Magical Thinking. The play, eerily enough, begins "This happened on Dec. 30, 2003. That may seem a while ago but it won’t when it happens to you. And it will happen to you." Those words are more haunting now than ever. Ron Silver Remembered: Tears and Laughter Actor and political activist Ron Silver’s funeral yesterday was private a service at Temple Rodelph Sholom on the Upper West Side. This much I can tell you: Ron’s kids, Adam and Alexandra, gave beautiful speeches, and made their dad proud. Each of Ron’s brothers gave heartbreaking remembrances of their older sibling. Writer Joe Klein was among those who eulogized a friend with laughter and tears.

The historic synagogue’s large vaunted ceiling chapel was full, by the way, with lots of family members, members of Actors Equity (where Ron was president from 1991-2000) and many familiar faces. In the audience I spotted Lorraine Bracco, Joe Pantoliano with wife Nancy, Tony Lo Bianco, former HBO chief Michael Fuchs, "West Wing" writer Lawrence O’Donnell, and even ex spouses Ronald Perelman and Patricia Duff. They sat on opposite sides of the room, however. Hopefully, a public memorial will be set up for the spring. By the way, the lights of Broadway were dimmed for a minute at 8pm on Tuesday in memory of Ron. I’m sure the same will be done tonight or tomorrow for Natasha Richardson. Two terrible losses: this Broadway tradition is usually reserved for stars who die at much older ages. Natasha Richardson: One of the Good Guys As Natasha Richardson’s family made decisions today for their beloved wife, mother, daughter, sister, and aunt, it was important to recall the actress’s really great life. She was considered one of the good guys, a welcome presence as a New York transplant on the Upper West Side.

With actor Liam Neeson she was certainly a "power couple," and with their sons, Michael, 13, and Daniel, 12, the Neesons were a popular addition to any event. Over the years, as Natasha easily made the transition - as British actresses do - among TV, movies, and stage, there was nothing she couldn’t do. She had a huge run on Broadway in the mid-'90s with "Anna Christie," "CLoter," (she originated the Julia Roberts movie role), "Streetcar Named Desire," and finally a huge success in "Cabaret," for which she won the 1998 Tony Award playing Sally Bowles. She first came to movie prominence in a 1988 movie directed by Paul Schrader about Patty Hearst. "She looked the part, and was perfect for it," Schrader said. "She brought none of the baggage of being a Redgrave with her, either." That would have been so easy to do with mom Vanessa, aunt Lynn, uncle Corin, sister Joely (a star of TV’s "Nip/Tuck"), or grandfather Michael. Moreover, her own father, Tony Richardson, had been a famous director.

Schrader also directed her in "The Comfort of Strangers." He told me yesterday: "She was a great friend, a terrific actress, and I will miss her very much." But Natasha Richardson was the rare example of graciousness and fun. Even though she was divorced from Robert Fox, she never made the tabloids. Even her marriage to Oscar nominee Neeson came with unusual lack of gossip. The couple was often seen dining together on the Upper West Side, too, at restaurants like Café Luxemboug and Compass. Ironically, their greatest test came about six years ago when Neeson broke his pelvis in a motocycle accident — he swerved to miss a deer — near their home in upstate New York. For months, Neeson hobbled around on crutches with the faithful Natasha by his side. Natasha Richardson will also be remembered as funny. About three years ago she had me seated next to her formidable acting legend mother at a dinner for their movie, "The White Countess." She left me alone, and I was nervous. When I asked Vanessa Redgrave if she’d liked any Oscar movies that year, she replied that she liked "Good Night and Good Luck" so much she called George Clooney.

"Oh my God," I said, "What did he say?" Redgrave responded: "That didn’t matter. It was what I said to him." Natasha, hearing this, broke in. "Now you know what I’ve been living with all my life," she said with a sweet but knowing laugh. By the way: all the chaos about reporting Richardson’s status yesterday was simple. At the time of her accident, she had no publicist. She had been represented for years by Robert Garlock. He died last year, and Natasha spoke beautifully at the service. So there was no one to step up and handle the massive misinformation following her tragedy. Believe me, if Robert were still here, he would have had the situation in hand. Obituary: Natasha Richardson | Global | The Guardian Natasha Richardson Wednesday 18 March 2009 21.23 EDT First published on Wednesday 18 March 2009 21.23 EDT Share on Messenger Close It was surely in the stars that Natasha Richardson , who has died aged 45 after suffering head injuries in a skiing accident near Montreal, would become a member of the theatrical profession.

The daughter of the actor Vanessa Redgrave and the director-producer Tony Richardson, she was among the third generation of a family steeped in the performing arts, her maternal grandparents being the actors Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. But while she remained close to her family, it was at the professional distance of her choosing: she settled in New York, took US citizenship, deployed a flawless American accent as necessary, and enjoyed her finest cinematic moment as the kidnapped California media heiress Patty Hearst. Natasha's career in film started at the age of four, when she and her younger sister, Joely, figured as extras in their father's film The Charge of the Light Brigade. Joely also went on to a successful acting career, as did their cousin Jemma, daughter of the actor Corin Redgrave, in recent years an admired King Lear. Born in London, Natasha studied at the Lycée Français and St Paul's girls school, Hammersmith. Her parents divorced when she was three. Her mother was much involved in campaigning for the Workers Revolutionary party and fundraising for refugees, and to see their father the two girls went to France and California.

Natasha felt strongly loved and supported by both parents, but grew up fast: when she came to have her own children, she was keen for them to have a rather more orderly upbringing. A determined teenager, she decided to take a hold on her future by leaving St Paul's at 16, so that she could take her A-levels in one year rather than two. When she auditioned at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London, she kept quiet about being a Redgrave. However, she soon gained a reputation in her own right in the theatre, in particular from a 1985 staging of Chekhov's The Seagull alongside her mother. Natasha's first film role was in the low-budget Every Picture Tells a Story (1984), and two years later she reached a wider audience in the guise of Mary Shelley as perceived by Ken Russell in his extravagant Gothic. This was a gruelling experience in which she was at one point required to be covered from head to foot in spinach as a practical substitute for primeval slime.

On location, made up with huge dark circles under her eyes, she cheerfully confided to me: "I'd probably look a lot worse if I had really been through all this." Her next screen appearance was in distinct contrast, as the wife of a rural Yorkshire clergyman in A Month in the Country (1987), an adaptation of JL Carr's novel. Although the film was set in the 1920s, Richardson imported an almost pre-Raphaelite quality of the ethereal. Ordeal, however, was again the keynote of her next film, which marked her arrival in international cinema with the title role in Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst (1988). This was a dramatisation of near-expressionist intensity of how William Randolph Hearst's granddaughter was kidnapped by, and then became an adherent of, the Symbionese Liberation Army. The film inevitably rested to a considerable degree on the quality of its central performance: this was a tour de force, making it all the sadder that its harrowing quality denied the film acceptance by a wide audience.

In Shadow Makers (1989), Richardson took the less central but elegiac role of the suicidal lover of the US nuclear physicist and father of the atom bomb Robert Oppenheimer. Then she was reunited with Schrader for a film in a very different register, The Comfort of Strangers (1990). Derived from Ian McEwan's novel and set in Venice, it is a chilly chamber drama, with Richardson conveying suitable presence as one half of an English couple caught up in a strange erotic imbroglio. This film, and the screen version of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1990), may have had an art-house stamp, but in the US, where she went to live in the early 1990s, Richardson was seen by a larger television audience. This came about through two acclaimed 1993 TV films, in roles of a matchingly febrile kind, as the victimised heroine of Tennessee Williams's Suddenly Last Summer and as Zelda Fitzgerald, disturbed wife of the novelist F Scott Fitzgerald, in Zelda.

From her early 20s, Richardson had been the partner of Robert Fox, a theatre and film producer 11 years older than her, and she took charge of his three children. Fox also came from a theatre family, as the younger brother of Edward and James. They married in 1990. The following year, her father Tony died of an HIV-related illness, and Natasha invited the Irish actor Liam Neeson to co-star with her in a much-lauded Broadway revival of Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie. In 1994, Richardson and Fox were divorced, and Neeson, also 11 years her senior, became her second husband. That year, too, they appeared together on screen in the psychological melodrama Nell. In 1995, she ventured into the more lighthearted, and commercially safer, reaches of family comedy by acting in the Disney remake of The Parent Trap, achieving the feat of not being upstaged in what is essentially a vehicle for a juvenile performer, with Lindsay Lohan in the role that in 1961 had been taken by Hayley Mills.

Richardson revisited the territory of glossy comedy to engaging effect with Jennifer Lopez in Maid in Manhattan (2002). By this time, Richardson had already expended considerable effort on trying to get Asylum, Patrick McGrath's novel about events in a psychiatric hospital modelled on Broadmoor in the 1950s, translated to the cinema screen. When the project was finally realised, in 2005, it provided her with the sexually charged role of a neglected psychiatrist's wife who starts an affair with one of her husband's patients, incarcerated for beheading his former wife. The same year saw The White Countess, the final collaboration by producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory – Merchant died during production – exchanging the British in India for displaced Russian aristocrats in the Shanghai of 1936. Richardson took the title role of Countess Sofiya Belinskaya, still glamorous despite her straitened circumstances. For only the second time in her career, she joined her mother and aunt Lynn, with Ralph Fiennes playing a US diplomat in an oblique screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Despite a strong lineup of female stars including Richardson, with the central figure played by Claire Danes in youth and Vanessa Redgrave 50 years later, Evening (2007) made little impact. Richardson's last film appearance came as the English headteacher with the task of instilling a sense of proper, old-world discipline into exiled American schoolgirl Emma Roberts in the teen comedy Wild Child (2008). Stage work continued to be important to Richardson. Her repertoire of strong characters continued with Ibsen's obsessive Ellida Wangel, The Lady from the Sea, reopening the Almeida Theatre, north London, in 2003, and on Broadway with Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire two years later. Her range was considerable: in 1998, she won a Tony award for her playing of Sally Bowles in a new Broadway production of the musical Cabaret, and at the time of her death was preparing to co-star with her mother in a Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim's A Little Night Music.

While that link persisted – Richardson's first childhood appearance in The Charge of the Light Brigade had been as Vanessa's bridesmaid – there is every reason to suppose that she would have continued to demonstrate her versatility in the years ahead. She is survived by her husband Liam Neeson, their two sons, Micheál and Daniel, her mother Vanessa and the other acting Redgraves of their two generations. Natasha Jane Richardson, actor, born 11 May 1963; died 18 March 2009 • This article was amended on Saturday 28 March 2009. In the obituary of Natasha Richardson above we said she gained a reputation in the theatre from a performance alongside her mother and aunt in Chekhov's Three Sisters in 1985. She appeared with her mother in Chekhov's The Seagull that year. Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave appeared with their niece Jemma Redgrave in Three Sisters in 1990. This has been corrected.

Natasha Richardson dies after suffering serious head injuries in a fall at a ski resort in Canada Published: 18 Mar 2009 Michael Billington: The death of Natasha Richardson in a skiing accident leads me to think of her many fine stage performances – and the roles she'll never play Published: 19 Mar 2009 Directors and stars from stage and screen pay tribute to actor hailed as one of a kind Published: 19 Mar 2009 Natasha Richardson has died in a New York hospital following a skiing accident Published: 19 Mar 2009 Natasha Richardson part of legendary acting family - CNN.com Natasha Richardson part of legendary acting family Story Highlights Actress Natasha Richardson granddaughter, daughter of Britain's famed Redgraves Richardson is married to actor Liam Neeson; they have two children Richardson has worked hard to establish her own name, is renowned for stage work Actress injured in ski accident in Quebec, Canada (CNN) -- Natasha Richardson, who died Wednesday following a ski accident Monday, comes from an illustrious British acting family -- one whose name she's often found a challenge. Natasha Richardson comes from a family of well-known British actors, including mother Vanessa Redgrave.

more photos » Richardson, the daughter of Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson ("Look Back in Anger," "Tom Jones"), has said, more than once, that she found it difficult to live up to the family reputation. "The names Richardson or Redgrave didn't help," she told About.com's Rebecca Murray in 2007. "But the last thing you want is to ride any coattails, because you don't want people to be accusing you of nepotism. You want to be able to learn and practice, and not to be thrown into a spotlight before you're ready for it." But Richardson, 45, was practically born to the stage. Besides her mother and father, several members of her family are performers: Her grandparents were Sir Michael Redgrave, a famed British actor, and actress Rachel Kempson; uncle Corin Redgrave, aunt Lynn Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson also are noted actors. She's even married to an actor, having been wed to Liam Neeson ("Schindler's List") since 1994.

She first appeared in a movie when she was 4, earning a bit part in her father's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968). By that point, her parents had divorced, and she was living with her mother, who already had dazzled movie audiences with her work in "Morgan!" (1966), "Blowup" (1966) and "Camelot" (1967). Despite her mother's success, Richardson said that the family was sometimes in financial straits because the politically controversial Redgrave gave away money to various causes, according to the BBC. Family visits Richardson after ski fall Though Richardson appeared in regional theater and a CBS television miniseries by the time she was 22, she first gained renown for her performance in Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull" in a 1985 production that featured her mother and Jonathan Pryce. The performance earned her the London Drama Critics' most promising newcomer award. She's earned her strongest notices for her stage work.

She won a Tony for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 revival of "Cabaret" and earned raves for her Blanche DuBois in a 2005 production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." Other productions include a 1993 production of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie" and the original 1999 production of Patrick Marber's "Closer," later made into a film with Julia Roberts. Critics have turned into fans. "Her Sally Bowles is a dazzling example of how star power can be harnessed to create a devastating portrait of someone who is definitely not a star," wrote The New York Times' Ben Brantley on "Cabaret." "Born-to-lose characters can be tedious, but Richardson turns this one into an electrifying triumph." On screen, Richardson deliberately has picked a wide range of roles, many in independent films. She makes no apologies: "I am attracted to the darker places than I am to the lighter, frothier stuff and I'm not sure why that is," she told the Web site Filmfreakcentral.com in 2006. "I do think that it's certainly more challenging to play the dark places.

But it's the part, primarily, and on the whole I'd rather play a wonderful part in a movie that few people see rather than a sort of cosmetic role in a blockbuster. Not that I've been offered many of those." There have been a handful of major Hollywood productions, however, most notably the 1998 version of "The Parent Trap" and the Jennifer Lopez vehicle "Maid in Manhattan" (2002), which she took as "a laugh," she told Filmfreakcentral.com. "You'll have to blame Ralph [Fiennes] for that one. He's the most wonderful actor, a good friend; we thought we'd have a laugh." Richardson met Neeson during the 1993 Broadway run of "Anna Christie" and later made the film "Nell" with him. When the two met, Richardson was married to producer Robert Fox, but that marriage ended. She later married Neeson. The two have generally stayed out of the tabloid press, but they won a 1998 libel suit against the London tabloid The Mirror over a story that claimed their marriage was a sham.

The newspaper apologized, and Neeson and Richardson were awarded $85,000, which they donated to victims of a Northern Ireland car bombing. Richardson has come to terms with her famous name -- and, having worked with her mother more than once, greatly appreciates her abilities. "What's always different about my mother is that there's always something unexpected about her work, because she's sort of fearless," Richardson told About.com's Murray. "When she hits it, then it sort of is just incandescent." She added that "her children have entirely forgiven her" for the difficulties when they were younger, "because she is a great mother." Richardson and Neeson have two children: Michael, 13, and Daniel, 12. Vanessa Redgrave: I lost my daughter, sister and brother in months | Express Yourself | Comment | Daily Express Vanessa Redgrave: I lost my daughter, sister and brother in months FOR years journalists have ­complained that it’s imposs­ible to get Vanessa Redgrave to open up.

00:00, Fri, Jun 11, 2010 Vanessa Redgrave with her late daughter Natasha Richardson [] A pivotal member of one of the country’s great ­acting dynasties as well as a statuesque sex symbol since the ­Sixties, when she starred in such films as Blowup and Isadora, she has long fascinated the British public. Yet she famously refuses to discuss anything other than her work or her revolu­tionary socialist politics – and often insists on talking about one or the other but not both at the same time. Even Lynn Barber, an interviewer so legendary she has herself been the subject of an Oscar-nominated film, couldn’t penetrate the actress’s rigid guard. “It’s as if Vanessa finds it safer to talk about politics than to talk about herself,” she complained. “She has a great mistrust of journalists and scans each question for hidden bear-traps before answering at tediously cautious length. She seems drawn to put the heaviest possible spin on everything.” Yesterday, however, all that changed. In a remarkable interview with Jenni Murray on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour the 73-year-old Academy Award-winner finally let the world in.

In the candid conversation she not only showed a softer side to her publicly gritty personality as she grieves for the three family members she has lost in the past 15 months. She also revealed the extraordinary story of her rekindled romance with Franco Nero, the heart-throb Italian actor who first stole her heart on the set of the film musical Camelot more than four decades ago and who has now come back into what she is ­unembarrassed to call her old age. Her decision to allow the world to see a little of her private side after jealously protecting it for so long is undoubtedly related to the cruel sequence of family tragedies she has suffered. In March last year her elder daughter, actress Natasha Richardson, died in a freak skiing accident at the age of 45. This April Vanessa’s actor brother Corin died at 70. Less than a month later their younger ­sister Lynn, an Oscar-nominee in her own right, also died aged 67. By coincidence, Vanessa had just confronted a similar situation in a one-woman stage show. She had app­eared as American writer Joan Didion in an adaptation of the latter’s bereavement memoir The Year Of Magical Thinking.

Performed first on Broadway and then at London’s National Theatre it was a real-life account of losing two close family members in quick succession – in Didion’s case her husband and daughter. “Everybody who came to see that play said they realised we all go through these extraordinary experiences of walking into another country that we never imagined and couldn’t imagine – the country of having lost the member of the family whom we just adore,” she told Murray. “It’s a very strange country and it does strange things to your mind but among those strange things is the wonderful thing that you realise how important it is to be very, very grateful for the love you’ve had and all the wonderful things to remember. “And things like that don’t end. The energy created by somebody like my sister, for instance. She poured out love, laughter and energy in whatever she did. She was passionate about her work and other people’s work and she was a trustee of the Actor’s Fund of America, which looks after not just actors but anyone in the theatre who needs help.

She put a lot of work into it and all that doesn’t go away – at least that’s what I believe.” Her daughter Natasha, who once begged her mother as a six-year-old to spend more time at home rather than at socialist meetings, died in New York after sustaining head injuries during a ski lesson. She left behind her husband, Irish actor Liam Neeson, and their sons Micheál, 15, and Daniel, 14. Vanessa has never before discussed this cruel loss of her eldest child – she has two others, actress Joely Richardson and film director Carlo Nero – in public. “It’s something I find very difficult to talk about except inside the family,” she said yesterday. “But you have to think of the children, the grandchildren. “There’s a lot of denial and magical thinking that comes with death but the great thing is that if you are ­thinking about the children and grand­children you’re also thinking a lot more deeply than perhaps you were before. I certainly realised what a gift Natasha was to everyone, certainly to me as her mum.

Her boys have a wonderful father and that’s what she would most wish for.” She said the thing she missed most about her brother Corin, for years her comrade-in-arms in the Trotskyite Workers’ Revolutionary Party, was the humour they shared. “I miss our discussions but of all the things I miss I guess it’s the wacky laughter. He would make me laugh so much and I could make him laugh too – and likewise with Lynnie. “I’ve learned that it’s a real help to people when you can make a joke instead of an angry comment. It may be a sarcastic joke but you laugh at something and make someone else laugh about something that’s really bad. It’s a big help.” She explained that she had given herself a break from work for a while. “I want to take time to think, to read, to garden with my daughter and be with my grandchildren more and, you know, take stock.” Such work as she has done, she said, were jobs she was very glad to do. They included a part in Ralph Fiennes’s film of the Shakespeare play Coriolanus, in which she plays the hero’s mother.

As a prominent “anti-Stratfordian” who contests Shakespeare’s sole ownership of the plays that bear his name, she has also appeared in a German film which conjectures group authorship of the Bard’s work. She plays the old Queen Elizabeth I while Joely plays her younger self. Her other role is a key to the most remarkable revelation about her life. She stars in a film romance called Letters To Juliet, which opens this week (see Films, page 46). In it she returns to Italy in search of her long-lost love, played by Franco Nero. In real life she and Nero fell in love when they played Guinevere and Lancelot in the Oscar-winning film Camelot. She ended her first marriage to film director Tony Richardson and had a son with Nero. In a sequel that mirrors the plot of the new film the pair are now back together – having quietly ­conducted a marriage ceremony at the end of 2006. “We never really separated,” she told Murray. “I mean, we had plenty of times when we weren’t speaking to each other or we were shouting at each other.

Mostly the worst times were not speaking to each other.” She admitted that each of them had other lovers along the way. “All sorts of other people were involved. But we have a wonderful son and we’ve got grandchildren so there have been very strong ties. Franco and I, it’s been one of the most wonderful things, to have found our way through this and to have a complete trust and respect. But also you’re not trying to turn someone into being what they’re not. You’re just happy that you’re still around and alive and kicking.” She revealed that Carlo, who is now 40, put the ring on her finger and was effectively her best man. But in a typically unorthodox touch the marriage is not legally recognised. “Through discussions with Joely, Natasha, Carlo and some friends, it was quite clear to us all that we didn’t want a marriage that is legal and has money involved and things like that,” she said. “The only way you can steer clear of the money business is staying clear of being legally married.

But we’re married in front of family and friends with the greatest possible commitment of love.” The union is clearly giving Vanessa Redgrave strength at a time when bereavements might otherwise have robbed her of a stake in the future. “I think I’m terribly lucky, terribly lucky,” she said. Perhaps we are lucky too that she has finally opened up. Vanessa Redgrave - Biography - IMDb Vanessa Redgrave Biography Showing all 109 items Jump to: Overview (2) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (2) | Trade Mark (1) | Trivia (75) | Personal Quotes (22) | Salary (6) Overview (2) 5' 11" (1.81 m) Mini Bio (1) On January 30, 1937, renowned theatre actor Michael Redgrave was performing in a production of Hamlet in London. During the curtain call, the show's lead, Laurence Olivier , announced to the audience: "tonight a great actress was born". This was in reference to his co-star's newborn daughter, Vanessa Redgrave. Vanessa was born in Greenwich, London, to Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson , both thespians.

Three quarters of a century after her birth (despite numerous ups and down) this rather forward expectation has definitely been lived up to with an acclaimed actress that has won (among many others) an Academy Award, two Emmys, two Golden Globes, two Cannes Best Actress awards, a Tony, a Screen Actors Guild award, a Laurence Olivier theatre award and a BAFTA fellowship. Growing up with such celebrated theatrical parents, great expectations were put on both herself, her brother Corin Redgrave and sister Lynn Redgrave at an early age. Shooting up early and finally reaching a height just short of 6 foot, Redgrave initially had plans to dance and perform ballet as a profession. However she settled on acting and entered the Central School of Speech and Drama in 1954 and four years later made her West End debut. In the decade of the 1960s she developed and progressed to become one of the most noted young stars of the English stage and then film.

Performances on the London stage included the classics: 'A Touch of Sun', 'Coriolanus', 'A Midsummer's Night Dream', 'All's Well that Ends Well', 'As You Like It', 'The Lady from the Sea', 'The Seagull' and many others. By the mid 1960s, she had booked various film roles and matured into a striking beauty with a slim, tall frame and attractive face. In 1966 she made her big screen debut as the beautiful ex-wife of a madman in an Oscar nominated performance in the oddball comedy Morgan! (1966), as well as the enigmatic woman in a public park in desperate need of a photographer's negatives in the iconic Blow-Up (1966) and briefly appeared in an unspoken part of Anne Boleyn in the Best Picture winner of the year A Man for All Seasons (1966). She managed to originate the title role in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" the same year on the London stage (which was then adapted for the big screen a few years later, but Maggie Smith was cast instead and managed to win an Oscar for her performance).

Her follow up work saw her play the lead in the box office hit adaptation Camelot (1967), a film popular with audiences but dismissed by critics, and her second Academy Award nominated performance as Isadora Duncan in the critically praised Isadora (1968). Her rise in popularity on film also coincided with her public political involvement, she was one of the lead faces in protesting against the Vietnam war and lead a famous march on the US embassy, was arrested during a Ban-the-Bomb demonstration, publicly supported Yasar Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and fought for various other human rights and particularly left wing causes. Despite her admirably independent qualities, most of her political beliefs weren't largely supported by the public. In 1971 after 3 films back to back, Redgrave suffered a miscarriage (it would have been her fourth, after Natasha Richardson , Joely Richardson and Carlo Gabriel Nero ) and a break up with her then partner and father of her son, Franco Nero . This was around the same time her equally political brother Corin introduced her to the Workers Revolutionary Party, a group who aimed to destroy capitalism and abolish the monarchy.

Her film career began to suffer and take the back seat as she became more involved with the party, twice unsuccessfully attempting to run as a party member for parliament, only obtaining a very small percentage of votes. In terms of her film career at the time, she was given probably the smallest part in the huge ensemble who-dunnit hit, Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and given another thankless small part as Lola Deveraux in the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976). After a celebrated Broadway debut, she created further controversy in 1977 with her involvement in two films, firstly in Julia (1977) where she acted opposite Jane Fonda as a woman fighting Nazi oppression and narrated and featured in the documentary The Palestinian (1977) where she famously danced holding a Kalashnikov rifle. She publicly stated her condemnation of what she termed "Zionist hudlums", which outraged Jewish groups and as a result a screening of her documentary was bombed and Redgrave was personally threatened by the Jewish Defense League (JDL).

Julia (1977) happened to be a huge critical success and Redgrave herself was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar, but Jewish support groups demanded her nomination to be dropped and at the event of the Academy Awards burned effigies of Redgrave and protested and picketed. Redgrave was forced to enter the event via a rear entrance to avoid harm and when she won the award she famously remarked on the frenzy causes as "Zionist hoodlums" which caused the audience to audibly gasp and boo. The speech reached newspapers the next morning and her reputation was further damaged. It came as a surprise when CBS hired her for the part of real life Nazi camp survivor Fania Fenelon in Playing for Time (1980), despite more controversy and protesting (Fenelon herself didn't even want Redgrave to portray her) she won an Emmy for the part and the film was one of the highest rating programs of the year.

Her follow up film work to her Oscar had been mostly low key but successful, performances in films such as Yanks (1979), Agatha (1979), The Bostonians (1984), Wetherby (1985) and Prick Up Your Ears (1987) further cemented her reputation as a fine actress and she received various accolades and nominations. However mainly in the 1980s, she focused on TV films and high budget mini-series as well as theatre in both London and New York. She made headlines in 1984 when she sued the Boston Symphony Orchestra for $5 million for wrongful cancellation of her contract because of her politics (she also stated her salary was significantly reduced in Agatha (1979) for the same reason). She became more mainstream in the 1990s where she appeared in a string of high profile films but the parts often underused Redgrave's abilities or they were small cameos/5-minute parts.

Highlights included Howards End (1992), Little Odessa (1994), Mission: Impossible (1996) and Cradle Will Rock (1999), as well as her leading lady parts in A Month by the Lake (1995) and Mrs Dalloway (1997). In 2003 she finally won the coveted Tony award for her performance in 'The Long Day's Journey Into Night' and followed up with another two Tony nominated performances on Broadway, her one woman show 'The Year of Magical Thinking' in 2007 and 'Driving Miss Daisy' in 2010 which not only was extended due to high demand, but was also transferred to the West End for an additional three months in 2011. Vanessa continues to lend her name to causes and has been notable for donating huge amounts of her own money for her various beliefs. She has publicly opposed the war in Iraq, campaigned for the closure of Guantanamo Bay, supported the rights of gays and lesbians as well as AIDs research and many other issues.

She released her autobiography in 1993 and a few years later she was elected to serve as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. She also famously declined the invitation to be made a Dame for her services as an actress. Many have wondered the possible heights her career could have reached if it wasn't for her outspoken views, but being a celebrity and the artificial lifestyle usually attached doesn't seem to interest Redgrave in the slightest. Vanessa has worked with all three of her children professionally on numerous occasions (her eldest daughter, Natasha Richardson tragically died at the age of 45 due to a skiing accident) and in her mid 70s she still works regularly on television, film and theatre, delivering time and time again great performances. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Dale O'Connor <daleoc@worldnet.att.net> and BradKM Spouse (2) Mother-in-law of actor Liam Neeson . (1971-1986) Was in a long relationship with former James Bond actor Timothy Dalton . Both she and sister Lynn Redgrave were nominated for the 1967 Best Actress Academy Award. Vanessa was nominated for Morgan!

(1966) and Lynn for Georgy Girl (1966). They both lost to Elizabeth Taylor , who won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966). Won Broadway's 2003 Tony Award as Best Actress (Play) for a revival of Eugene O'Neill 's "Long Day's Journey Into Night." Son, Carlo Gabriel Nero , with Franco Nero . The two met while working together in Camelot (1967). She allegedly refused the British honour of Dame of the order of the British Empire in 1999. She was awarded the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1985 (1984 season) for Best Actress in a Revival for "The Aspern Papers". She was nominated for a 1997 Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Actress in a Play of 1996 for her performance in "John Gabriel Borkman". She was awarded the 1985 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Actor in The Seagull. She was awarded the 1991 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actress for her performance in When She Danced.

She was awarded the 1985 London Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Actor for her performance in The Seagull. She was awarded the 1988 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in A Touch of the Poet. In 1962, she became one of the first celebrities to visit communist Cuba. A longtime member of Britain's Workers Revolutionary Party Appeared on "BBC News 24" Breakfast and stated that the massacre of Russian school children by Chechen guerrillas was not an act of terrorism. (4 September 2004). In 2003, she became the sixteenth performer to win the Triple Crown of acting. Oscar: Best Supporting Actress, Julia (1977), Tony: Best Actress-Play, "Long Day's Journey into Night" (2003), and Emmys: Best Actress-Limited Series/Special, Playing for Time (1980) & Best Supporting Actress-Miniseries/Movie, If These Walls Could Talk 2 (2000).

Was set to star in Dario Argento 's Opera (1987), but dropped out shortly before production was scheduled to commence. First performer to win two individual Acting Awards at the Cannes Festival. ( Dean Stockwell won twice at the festival before, but he had to share both of his awards with his co-stars) On a June 2005 appearance on Larry King Live (1985), she expressed her fondness for the movie Meet the Fockers (2004) and said that the film should have won an Academy Award. Trained for the stage at the central school for Speech and Drama in London, and in 1959 became a member of the acclaimed Stratford-Upon-Avon Theatre Company. Received The Helen Hayes award nomination for her work in Hecuba. This play was a major success. It was so well received that the BAM theater in New York scheduled it for two weeks and it went on to being performed in Delphi. Plays mother to real-lifer daughter Joely Richardson in a few episodes of Nip/Tuck (2003). Spoke at the Scottish Parliment in the summer of 2005.

Voted by People magazine (May 8th 2006) as one of the 100 most beautiful people. Voted by Entertainment Weekly as one of the 25 greatest Actresses Is mentioned, along with Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy , in the song "Jammin' Me" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. When director David Hare and producers of "The Year of Magical Thinking" were thinking of an actress to cast in their one-woman show, they could only think of one name, and that was Redgrave. They said that only she could tackle the range of emotion created by the character. After filming Mary, Queen of Scots (1971), The Devils (1971) and The Trojan Women (1971), she suffered a miscarriage in 1971. It was a boy and would have been her and Franco Nero 's second child. After filming The Trojan Women (1971), Katharine Hepburn favored Vanessa Redgrave over all actresses and later remarked that she was, "A thrill to look at and to listen to.".

Her three children are actresses Natasha Richardson and Joely Richardson from her marriage to Tony Richardson and Carlo Gabriel Nero with Italian actor Franco Nero . Received rave reviews for originating the role of Jean Brodie in, 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" winning the London Evening Standard award for her work. Along with Claude Rains ( for Mr. Skeffington (1944)), Kate Winslet (for Iris (2001)), Mare Winningham (for Georgia (1995)) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (for The Master (2012)), she is one of the few performers to be nominated for an Supporting Oscar (for Julia (1977)) for playing the title role in a movie. As of 2013, Redgrave is the only one to win. She was the first of the only four actresses to win the Best Actress award twice at Cannes Film Festival. She won for Morgan! (1966) in 1966 and Isadora (1968) in 1968.

The others are: Isabelle Huppert for Violette (1978) in 1978 and The Piano Teacher (2001) in 2001; Helen Mirren for Cal (1984) in 1984 and The Madness of King George (1994) in 1995; Barbara Hershey for Shy People (1987) in 1987 and A World Apart (1988) in 1988. Won the Drama Desk award in 2007 for Best Actor in a Solo performance for "The Year of Magical Thinking". She also received her second Tony award nomination for Best Actress for the same play. Former mother-in-law of Working Title films co-producer Tim Bevan . She was made a Fellow of the British Film Institute in recognition of her outstanding contribution to film culture. Both she and her daughter Joely Richardson have played an historical queen who was executed by beheading. Redgrave played the title character in Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) while her daughter played Marie Antoinette in The Affair of the Necklace (2001).

Named Jeanne Moreau as co-respondent in her 1967 divorce from Tony Richardson on grounds of adultery. Lost her daughter, Natasha Richardson , on March 18, 2009 as the result of a skiing accident at Mont Tremblant, Quebec. Nominated for the 2007 Tony Award (New York City) for Actress in a Drama for "The Year of Magical Thinking". Refused to accept any money for her role as Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons (1966). Was offered the role of Margaret More in A Man for All Seasons (1966) but she turned it down due her commitments to the theatre and opted for the cameo role of Anne Boleyn instead. Susannah York was cast as Margaret More instead. After the death of her daughter, she subsequently dropped out of Ridley Scott 's Robin Hood (2010) in which she had a supporting role. Eileen Atkins replaced her. She and her brother, the late Corin Redgrave , both appeared in films based on the legend of "King Arthur".

Vanessa played "Queen Guinevere" in Camelot (1967) while Corin played "Lord Cornwall" in John Boorman 's Excalibur (1981). (March 2009 - May 2010) Lost her daughter Natasha Richardson , her younger brother and sister, Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave , in the space of just 14 months. Corin and Lynn died within a month of one another. Appeared as an illustration on the cover of Time magazine (March 17, 1967) with sister Lynn Redgrave . Both sisters had just been respectively Oscar-nominated for Morgan! (1966) and Georgy Girl (1966). Is one of 15 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony); the others in chronological order are Helen Hayes , Ingrid Bergman , Shirley Booth , Liza Minnelli , Rita Moreno , Maureen Stapleton , Jessica Tandy , Audrey Hepburn , Anne Bancroft , Maggie Smith , Ellen Burstyn , Helen Mirren , Frances McDormand and Jessica Lange .

Picked by Disney to become a Live Reference Model for 'Alice' in 'Alice in Wonderland'. Before leaving London for shooting, Vanessa started to sleep walk. Due to this, her parents refused to send her. Kathryn Beaumont got the gig instead. Didn't attend the Academy Awards ceremony, the year her performance in The Bostonians (1984) was nominated because her father had died a few days prior. She was in Los Angeles at the time of his death attending Academy functions and conferences and flew back to the UK. First met long time partner Timothy Dalton on the set of Mary, Queen of Scots (1971) in 1970. Their relationship reportedly blossomed after a heated 6 hour argument regarding the true meaning of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" speech. She speaks Italian and French fluently. Her appearance with husband-to-be Franco Nero in Uninvited (1999), marked the only time the couple were directed by their only son Carlo Gabriel Nero . She dropped out of the film The Magdalene Sisters (2002) due to her mother Rachel Kempson 's ill health and was replaced by Geraldine McEwan .

Appearing on Broadway in "Long Day's Journey Into Night". [May 2003] Just started own political party in the UK to be focused on human rights violations. It is called Peace and Progress Party, it will field candidates in the next British general election. [November 2004] Fighting to stop an open air gold mine in Romania. She has been met with protest, but ignores it all. [June 2006] Was the 80th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Julia (1977) at The 50th Annual Academy Awards (1978) on April 3, 1978. She and her daughter Joely Richardson played Queen Elizabeth I in Anonymous (2011). She was considered for the role of Tsarina Alexandra in Nicholas and Alexandra (1971) before Janet Suzman was cast. Her father Michael Redgrave played Sergey Sazonov in the film. Is one of 9 actresses who have received an Academy Award nomination for portraying a real-life queen.

The others in chronological order are Norma Shearer for Marie Antoinette (1938), Katharine Hepburn for The Lion in Winter (1968), Geneviève Bujold for Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Janet Suzman for Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Helen Mirren for The Madness of King George (1994) and The Queen (2006), Judi Dench for Mrs Brown (1997) and Shakespeare in Love (1998), Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth (1998) and The Golden Age (2007), and Helena Bonham Carter for The King's Speech (2010). She, her mother Rachel Kempson and her two younger siblings Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave all appeared in films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture: Rachel appeared in Tom Jones (1963) and Out of Africa (1985), Lynn also appeared in Tom Jones (1963) and Vanessa and Corin both appeared in A Man for All Seasons (1966).

She played Anne Boleyn in A Man for All Seasons (1966) and her daughter Queen Elizabeth I in Anonymous (2011). Her real life daughter Joely Richardson also played the younger Queen Elizabeth in the latter film. She played the daughter of her mother Rachel Kempson in both The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968) and Déjà Vu (1997). She has three roles in common with her daughter Joely Richardson : (1) they both played Jean Travers in Wetherby (1985), (2) they both the unnamed protagonist in The Fever (2004) and (3) they both played Queen Elizabeth in Anonymous (2011). She suffered a near-fatal heart attack in April 2015 and gave up smoking after being diagnosed with emphysema. She revealed her lungs are only working at 30% capacity.

As of 2016 she is the 10th earliest surviving recipient of a Best Actress Oscar nomination, tied with Anouk Aimée and behind only Olivia de Havilland , Leslie Caron , Carroll Baker , Joanne Woodward , Shirley MacLaine , Doris Day , a tied Piper Laurie and Sophia Loren , a tied Julie Andrews and Debbie Reynolds , and a tied Julie Christie and Samantha Eggar . She played the mother of her real life niece Jemma Redgrave in Howards End (1992). Has five grandchildren. She, her father Michael Redgrave and her siblings Corin Redgrave and Lynn Redgrave all appeared in films directed by Sidney Lumet : Michael in The Hill (1965), Corin in The Deadly Affair (1967), Lynn in The Deadly Affair (1967) and Last of the Mobile Hot Shots (1970) and Vanessa in The Sea Gull (1968) and Murder on the Orient Express (1974),. Personal Quotes (22) [accepting her Oscar for Julia (1977)] My dear colleagues, I thank you very, very much for this tribute to my work.

I think that Jane Fonda and I have done the best work of our lives, and I salute you and I pay tribute to you, and I think you should be very proud that in the last few weeks you have stood firm and you have refused to be intimidated by the threats of a small bunch of Zionist hoodlums [interrupted by boos] whose behavior is an insult to the stature of Jews all over the world and to their great and heroic record of struggle against fascism and oppression. And I pledge to you that I will continue to fight against anti-Semitism and fascism. Thank you. I choose all my roles very carefully so that when my career is finished I will have covered all our recent history of oppression. I've opened my mouth on a lot of subjects. And I thought the more prestige you get, I'd have the power to do what I like. It's not true. I don't think I ever felt beautiful until I was pregnant and when I gave birth to my children. I had terrible acne when I was a teenager and I was very tall, so tall I couldn't see myself in my mother's long mirror. I don't consider myself beautiful at all, I'm usually running around like a scruff.

Of course, I am misrepresented very often, but so is everybody who has got something to say. I would have liked to have more children. I had always wanted five children when I was younger. That was my dream, I wanted five and I don't think I would have been bothered if it had turned out to be six. In the end, I had four, but I lost one of them, the fourth one. I had a miscarriage. Anybody can lose their job and have nothing. And people mind having nothing. Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers. How can we help the people in the audience--and ourselves--remove the cobwebs that prevents us all from being able to reach and touch things? Analyzing the problem is vital. It's the only way you're going to arrive at the right thing to do. A theater is being given over to market forces, which means that a whole generation that should be able to do theater as well as see it is being completely deprived. I have a tremendous use for passionate statement. It's a kinky part of my nature -- to meddle. I give myself to my parts as to a lover. America is gangsterism for the private profit of the few.

We all come to the theatre with baggage. The baggage of our daily lives, the baggage of our problems, the baggage of our tragedies, the baggage of being tired. It doesn't matter what age you are. But if our hearts get opened and released - well that is what theatre can do, and does sometimes, and everyone is thankful when that happens. [Speaking of her parents (Michael & Rachel), sister Lynn, and brother Corin] We are the sprigs of a great and beautiful tree. I always loved singing because we used to sing around the piano. My father [Michael Redgrave] was a brilliant pianist. He loved American musicals. He would bring back loads of song sheets when he went to America to work. And we'd group round the piano on Sunday and sing our hearts out. One must never comment as an actor, never show that a character is shallow or vindictive, but let that be conveyed. I mean, none of us thinks of ourselves as being vindictive or shallow - perhaps we should. I discovered a long time ago that the camera does lie, and thank God it does. I'm happy to tell you about it, though I'm irritated to be shown to be so stupid.

But there you are, it's the smoking that did it. My lungs are shattered, about 30 per cent capacity if I don't smoke. Which of course I don't anymore, though I was horrified to learn from my doctor that there are people with this diagnosis who still do. Salary (6) Natasha Richardson dies after ski fall - CNN.com Natasha Richardson dies after ski fall Story Highlights Actress Natasha Richardson fell Monday while skiing Richardson appeared fine, but became ill soon after Actress, 45, was daughter of Vanessa Redgrave, wife of Liam Neeson Family says they are "shocked and devastated," thank all for support NEW YORK (CNN) -- Natasha Richardson, a film star, Tony-winning stage actress and member of the famed Redgrave acting family, died Wednesday after suffering injuries in a ski accident, according to a family statement. She was 45. Natasha Richardson fell on a beginners' slope in Canada. more photos » Richardson, wife of actor Liam Neeson, was injured Monday in a fall on a ski slope at a Quebec resort about 80 miles northwest of Montreal.

Richardson's family released a statement saying, "Liam Neeson, his sons, and the entire family are 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." According to a statement from Mont Tremblant Ski Resort, Richardson fell during a lesson on a beginners' trail. Watch a report on Richardson's life » "She did not show any visible sign of injury, but the ski patrol followed strict procedures and brought her back to the bottom of the slope and insisted she should see a doctor," the statement said. Richardson , accompanied by her instructor, returned to her hotel, but about an hour after the fall was "not feeling good," the statement said. An ambulance was called, and Richardson was taken to a local hospital before being transferred to Hopital du Sacre-Coeur in Montreal. From there she was transferred to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. Friends and colleagues were saddened by her death. "Natasha was brilliant, beautiful, funny, talented beyond measure, as emotionally raw as she was razor sharp," said Jodie Foster, who worked with Richardson in "Nell," in a statement.

"Tasha loved fiercely and that love continues in all of us who knew her. May Liam, her beautiful boys and her loving family hold her close as they move through this tragic moment." "Natasha combined the best of [her parents, Vanessa] Redgrave and [Tony] Richardson: the enormous depth and emotional force of a great actor on the one hand, and the intelligence and objectivity of a great director on the other. She was a one-of-a-kind, a magnificent actress," said director Sam Mendes in a statement. Mendes directed Richardson in her Tony-winning "Cabaret" performance. Richardson was practically born to perform. Her grandfather, Sir Michael Redgrave, was a famed British actor. Her mother, Vanessa Redgrave, is an Oscar-winning actress, and her father, the late director Tony Richardson, helmed such films as "Look Back in Anger," "The Entertainer" and the Oscar-winning "Tom Jones." Don't Miss TIME.com: Richardson always worth watching Natasha Richardson's uncle Corin Redgrave, aunt Lynn Redgrave, and sister Joely Richardson are also noted performers. But being part of a family of actors wasn't always easy for Richardson.

Her parents divorced when she was 4 and her mother, involved in controversial political causes, gave away a lot of money, putting the family in financial straits, according to the BBC. Then there was the family heritage, of which Richardson once said, "Though my name opened doors it didn't get me work, and a lot of pressure comes from having a mother who is considered one of the greatest actresses of her generation," the BBC reported. In 2007, Richardson worked with her mother in the film "Evening." Richardson said she made one point to director Lajos Koltai about the relatives working together. "This is a unique opportunity," she said she told him. "This is the one time my mother and I are going to play mother and daughter on screen, so you've got to take advantage of it." Watch Richardson talk about working with her mom » Richardson's first film role was a bit part in her father's "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968), made when she was 4.

After a handful of roles through her teens and early 20s, she broke through as Mary Shelley in Ken Russell's film "Gothic," and followed that up as Patty Hearst in Paul Schrader's 1988 film of the same name. iReport.com: Share memories of Richardson Richardson's other notable films included "The Handmaid's Tale" (1990); the TV movie "Zelda" (1993); "Nell" (1994), alongside Neeson, whom she married in 1994; the 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap"; and "Wild Child" (2008). Watch Larry King and his panel talk about Richardson's career and death » But some of Richardson's greatest successes were on the stage. At 22, she played opposite her mother and Jonathan Pryce in a London production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull"; the performance earned her the London Drama Critics' most promising newcomer award.

She won a Tony for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 revival of "Cabaret" and earned raves for her Blanche DuBois in a 2005 production of "A Streetcar Named Desire." She was scheduled to perform in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's "A Little Night Music" this year, following a January benefit performance of the show. She and Neeson have two children, Michael and Daniel. Richardson was married to Robert Fox from 1990 to 1994. 1000+ images about Natasha Richardson wife of Liam on Pinterest | Vanessa redgrave, Skiing and Batman begins Natasha Richardson with Husband, Liam Neeson. Born 05/11/1963 Died 03/18/2009 (aged 45) Cause of death: (Epidural hematoma) sustained a head injury when she fell while taking a beginner skiing lesson See More

Question: What was the name of the daughter of Vanessa Redgrave who died in 2009?
Answer: NATASHA (Richardson)