Natasha Richardson

Director Atom Egoyan was directing Liam Neeson in the film Chloe when Liam’s wife, Natasha Richardson, died suddenly and tragically in a freak skiing accident.

While doing press for his next project, Adoration, Egoyan spoke with great reverence for both Richardson and Neeson, who returned to work after his wife’s death.

“There’s some really emotional scenes that he had to do,” Egoyan revealed.

Liam Neeson has signed on for his first new movie role following the tragic, sudden death of his wife, actress Natasha Richardson after a seemingly benign ski accident.

Liam, 56, will play Zeus, the king of the gods, in Clash of the Titans, a reimagining of the Greek myth of Perseus, according to Variety.

Ralph Fiennes has also signed onto the project and will play Hades, the god of the underworld.

The film begins shooting this summer.

Natasha Richardson’s final legacy might not be her Tony Award-winning stage work or her onscreen appearances, but her innate generosity.

Following her tragic death after hitting her head during a skiing lesson, Natasha’s organs were donated to others in need. 

There’s no way to make light of her death, but the end of her life meant a new hope of others.

We can’t think of anything more benevolent.

Natasha Richardson was a remarkable woman.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Despite earlier reports, Vanessa Redgrave has decided to postpone her return to the New York stage in The Year Of Magical Thinking so that she can grieve the tragic death of her daughter Natasha Richardson.

Redgrave was scheduled to perform the one-woman play, adapted from Joan Didion's book, at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine on April 27th, but has chosen to postpone the show, which is a harrowing retelling of the deaths of the author's husband and daughter.

Liam Neeson and Vanessa Redgrave were among the family and friends who gathered in the small town of Lithgow, New York to bid a final farewell to Tony-award winning actress Natasha Richardson yesterday.

Richardson, 45, died last week due to complications following a ski accident.

Our thoughts are with the family during this terrible time.

—J. Bavoso

Just days after the death of her daughter, actress Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave has announced that she will go ahead with a performance of the stage adaptation of Joan Didion's memoir The Year of Magical Thinking in New York in April.  

Natasha Richardson’s mother, Vanessa Redgrave, sang an emotional reprise of the song she sang at her daughter’s first wedding in one of their last moments together. 

After Richardson’s husband Liam Neeson made the decision to remove her from life-support, Redgrave sang Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Edelweiss” from The Sound of Music as she sat by her daughter’s bed at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital.

Hours later Richardson, 45, died of internal cranial bleeding following a skiing accident on Monday.

The autopsy on Natasha Richardson has been concluded, and the New York medical examiner has announced the official cause of death as “epidural hematoma due to blunt impact to the head.”

Basically, bleeding in the brain caused by a fall where she smacked her head on something, presumably the ground.

Tonight, in the Tony winning star’s honor, the lights of Broadway will be dimmed for one minute at 8pm.

—Sasha Perl-Raver

Natasha Richardson has died.

We are saddened beyond words.

The 45-year-old actress suffered brain and head injuries from a fall on a Canadian ski slope Monday.

Her family released this statement.

“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.”

This is heartbreaking news.

No official announcement has been made but multiple sources are reporting that Natasha Richardson has been taken off life support and is brain dead following what seemed like a simple, innocuous ski accident on Monday.