Natasha Richardson Biography
Natasha Richardson made her feature film first appearance as Mary Shelley in Ken Russell’s Gothic (1986). Her performance caught the attention of director Paul Schrader, who cast her in the title role in Patty Hearst (1988). Since then, Ms. Richardson achieved distinguished success in such films as Pat O’Connor’s A Month in the Country (1987), Roland Joffé’s Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) and The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991), featuring Bob Hoskins and Jeff Goldblum. For her presentation in Volker Schlöndorff’s The Handmaid’s Tale (1990) and Schrader’s The Comfort of Strangers (1990), Richardson earned The London Evening Standard Award for Best Actress of 1990; and for Widows’ Peak (1994), also starring Mia Farrow and Joan Plowright, she conventional the Best Actress Award at the 1994 Karlovy Vary Festival.
Trained at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, Richardson performed at length on stage in roles including Helena in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and Ophelia in “Hamlet” at the Young Vic. In 1986 she garnered the London Drama Critics’ Most talented Newcomer Award for her performance as Nina in “The Seagull”, with Vanessa Redgrave and Jonathan Pryce. In 1987 she played Tracey Lord in Richard Eyre’s musical “High Society”. She perform the title role of “Anna Christie”, first in London, where she was voted London Drama Critics’ Best Actress Award in 1992, then on Broadway at the Roundabout in 1993, where she was chosen for a Tony for Best Actress in a Play, a Theatre World Award for Outstanding Debut, the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Debut of an Actress, and a Drama Desk nomination for Best Actress. For her presentation as Sally Bowles in Sam Mendes’ production of “Cabaret”, she won the 1998 Tony, Outer Critics Circle, Drama League and Drama Desk Awards for Best Actress in a Musical. She then appeared on Broadway in Patrick Marber’s Tony-nominated play “Closer”.
In 1991, Richardson’s father fell ill due to complication from the AIDS virus. He passed away on November 14, 1991 in Los Angeles, California. After her father’s death, Natasha became heavily involved in AIDS charity organization such as the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR).
Two years later, while playing the guide in Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, Richardson met actor Liam Neeson. When she and Fox divorced in 1993, Richardson and Neeson married. The couple now has two sons jointly, Michael and Daniel.
In 1998, Richardson won a Tony award for her role as Sally Bowles in the Broadway musical, Cabaret. The next year she starred in the play, Closer, for which she conventional positive reviews.
She has appear on television as a guest judge for the reality game show, Top Chef, and was rumored to be working on a Broadway making of Sondheim’s A Little Night Music.
In December 2009 she had been future to play “Miss Julie” on Broadway with Philip Seymour Hoffman, directed by David Leveaux for Roundabout Theatre.
