I’m stunned. Stunned. Natasha Richardson, Tony Award winning actress, daughter of Vanessa Redgrave, and wife of Liam Neeson, has died from a freak fall on a beginner’s ski slope in Quebec, Canada. I don’t even know what to say; it just seems so implausible. How could this happen?? It’s so terribly sad.
My condolences to Liam Neeson and the entire family.
Perhaps better known and appreciated for her theatrical work, still, she was a luminous actress. I will miss her.
Me too. I’m just stunned. So so sad.
So frightening and sad.
I saw her on Broadway in Cabaret and it is easily in my Top 5 Live Performances of all time. she was INCREDIBLE onstage. a raw nerve.
Rest in peace and my condolences to her family. So shocking.
Incredibly sad, isn’t it? So sorry for her and her family.
This is so sad.
I’m still just reeling over how this happened. How do you have a minor fall and die?? Please, everyone, take “falling” off your list of acceptably klutzy things to do, I beg of you. It’s even more sad to me because it’s just so bizarre.
sheila — I would have loved to have seen her in Cabaret. I heard nothing but GREAT things about her performance.
I felt like I was on FIRE in the audience when I watched her sing “Maybe This Time”. I seriously felt myself start to burn up watching her – it was that intense. Her arms were flapping and trembling with adrenaline and drug addiction – this was not a put-on, or actor-ish – it was really HAPPENING to her – visibly trembling – as she sang … I have goosebumps right now remembering it. I’m writing a piece about it for House Next Door – should be up over there later today.
Her film work, for me, was kind of lukewarm but my God, she was dynamite onstage. Dynamite. Makes every other performance you see seem safe, cautious … she was raw.
Her Sally Bowles put her in the history books forever.
Head injuries like that scare the crap out of me. You walk, you talk, you die.
I knew someone who died like that when I was a teenager. Bumped his head in a car accident, kind of minor – just a bruise, really – other people in the accident were far more obviously injured – and this guy raced around dragging other people out of the cars involved in the accident – he was talking to firemen, ambulance drivers, lucid and clear – and then he walked over to the grassy side of the street, lay down, and died.
Terrifying.
My deepest condolences to Richardson’s poor family. They must be shattered.
Yes, this was just a horrible thing to happen, and I’m so sad for her family.
sheila — Yes, the whole idea that this can happen really freaks me out.
So horribly sad.
Couple of years after I graduated from high school, a couple of football players, good friends, got into a fight over a girl. One pushed the other and he fell, hit his head on a rock, passed out and died. Stuff like that freaks me out.
“Luminous” is precisely the descriptor I would’ve used to describe her.
Dangitall.