Natasha Richardson
British actor Peter Eyre, who knew Natasha Richardson since she was a child, recalls the qualities that made her so special. Read it and view photos from the actress’ life.
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Richardson at one week old, on May 20, 1963, with her mother, British actress Vanessa Redgrave, and her husband, director Tony Richardson, in London
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Vanessa Redgrave dressed for her lead role in the film 'Isadora', talks with Richardson during a break in filming in England, 1967.
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Natasha Richardson with her younger sister, Joely Richardson, in May 1985.
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Richardson, circa 1985.
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Before their 1994 marriage, Natasha Richardson and Liam Neeson attend the Tony Awards. In 1998, Richardson won the Tony for her role in 'Cabaret.'
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Richardson sings onstage in the hit Broadway musical revival 'Cabaret.' Richardson won the Tony Award for best actress in a musical.
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Richardson in the first production of 'High Society" at the Victoria Palace Theater in London, 1987.
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Richardson and Neeson in a scene from the revival of the play 'Anna Christie' in 1993.
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Richardson speaks at the 1998 Tony Awards after accepting the award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical, for her part in the Braodway revival of 'Cabaret'.
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Richardson and Neeson share the screen in the film 'Nell' in 1994.
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Richardson greets Queen Elizabeth as actors Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan look on at the premiere of the movie 'The Parent Trap,' November 9, 1998.
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Richardson plays opposite Ralph Feinnes in the film 'The White Countess' in 2005.
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Richardson attends Merchant Ivory's New York City premiere of 'The White Countess' in 2005.
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Richardson and Neeson leave Studio 54 after the opening of 'A Streetcar Named Desire' on April 26, 2005, in New York.
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Richardson and Amy Ryan in a 2005 Broadway production of 'A Streetcar Named Desire.'
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Richardson and Neeson attends the Met Costume Institute Gala Celebrating Chanel at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, on May 2, 2005, in New York.
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Richardson with her mother, Vanessa Redgrave in 2006.
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Sons Michael and Daniel pose with Richardson on the red carpet at the opening night of 'Billy Eliot, The Musical' in New York on November 13, 2008.
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Richardson poses for her portrait taken while in Rome in 2007.
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