Natasha Richardson
Actor
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Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Early in her career, she portrayed Mary Shelley and Patty Hearst in feature films, and she received critical acclaim and a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of Anna Christie. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret. Some of her notable films included Patty Hearst (1988), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Nell (1994), The Parent Trap (1998) and Maid in Manhattan (2002).
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Natasha Jane Richardson (11 May 1963 – 18 March 2009) was an English actress of stage and screen. A member of the Redgrave family, she was the daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director/producer Tony Richardson and the granddaughter of Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. Early in her career, she portrayed Mary Shelley and Patty Hearst in feature films, and she received critical acclaim and a Theatre World Award for her Broadway debut in the 1993 revival of Anna Christie. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical, and the Outer Critics Circle Award for her performance as Sally Bowles in the 1998 Broadway revival of Cabaret. Some of her notable films included Patty Hearst (1988), The Handmaid's Tale (1990), Nell (1994), The Parent Trap (1998) and Maid in Manhattan (2002).
Her first marriage to filmmaker Robert Fox ended in divorce in 1992. In 1994, she married Irish actor Liam Neeson, whom she had met when the two appeared in Anna Christie. The couple had two sons, Micheál and Daniel. Richardson's father died of AIDS-related causes in 1991. She helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS through the charity amfAR, the American Foundation for AIDS Research. Richardson died in 2009 following a head injury sustained when she fell during a skiing lesson in Quebec.
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The Wildest Dream (2010)
As: Ruth Mallory (voice)
Uses astonishing visuals to tell the intersecting stories of George Mallory, the first man to attempt a summit of Mount Everest, and Conrad Anker, the mountaineer who finds Mallory's frozen remains 75 years later.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Anthony Geffen
Stars: Ralph Fiennes | Liam Neeson | Natasha Richardson | Conrad Anker | Leo Houlding
Wild Child (2008)
As: Mrs. Kingsley
Rebellious 16 year old Poppy from Mailibu is sent to an English boarding school. Realising her Father isn't coming back to rescue her she tries to get expelled.
Runtime: 98 min.
Directed by: Nick Moore
Stars: Emma Roberts | Aidan Quinn | Kimberley Nixon | Juno Temple | Alex Pettyfer
Evening (2007)
As: Constance Haverford
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago. In vivid flashbacks, the young Ann (Claire Daines) spends one night with a man named Harris (Patrick Wilson), who was the love of her life.
Runtime: 117 min.
Directed by: Lajos Koltai
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Patrick Wilson | Hugh Dancy | Claire Danes | Toni Collette
Mastersons of Manhattan (2007)
As: Victoria Masterson
A look at the life of two sisters who come from a socially prominent family in New York.
Runtime: 30 min.
Directed by: James Burrows
Stars: Natasha Richardson | Brian Benben | Amanda Walsh | Molly Shannon | Jonathan Cake
The White Countess (2005)
As: Countess Sofia Belinskya
The last movie from the team of Ismail Merchant, James Ivory, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Set in 1930s Shanghai, "The White Countess" is both Sofia (Natasha Richardson), a fallen member of the Russian aristocracy, and a nightclub created by a blind American diplomat named Jackson (Ralph Fiennes), who asks Sofia to be the centerpiece of the world he wants to create.
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: James Ivory
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Ralph Fiennes | Lynn Redgrave | Hiroyuki Sanada | Natasha Richardson
Asylum (2005)
As: Stella Raphael
A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: David Mackenzie
Stars: Marton Csokas | Ian McKellen | Hugh Bonneville | Joss Ackland | Natasha Richardson
Waking Up in Reno (2002)
As: Darlene Dodd
Candy and Lonnie Earl are just crazy about each other. The problem: she's married to Roy and he's married to Darlene. So far it's been a secret affair. But that's about to change, because this foursome is driving cross-country and headed for some big surprises.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Jordan Brady
Stars: Charlize Theron | Billy Bob Thornton | Natasha Richardson | Patrick Swayze | David Koechner
Maid in Manhattan (2002)
As: Caroline Lane
Marisa Ventura is a struggling single mom who works at a posh Manhattan hotel and dreams of a better life for her and her young son. One fateful day, hotel guest and senatorial candidate Christopher Marshall meets Marisa and mistakes her for a wealthy socialite. After an enchanting evening together, the two fall madly in love. But when Marisa's true identity is revealed, issues of class and social status ...
Runtime: 105 min.
Directed by: Wayne Wang
Stars: Stanley Tucci | Ralph Fiennes | Jennifer Lopez | Natasha Richardson | Tyler Posey
Blow Dry (2001)
As: Shelley Allen
The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.
Runtime: 94 min.
Directed by: Paddy Breathnach
Stars: Rachel Griffiths | Rachael Leigh Cook | Alan Rickman | Natasha Richardson | Josh Hartnett
Haven (2001)
As: Ruth Gruber
Runtime: 180 min.
Directed by: John Gray
Stars: Henry Czerny | Natasha Richardson | Sebastian Roché | Colm Feore | Sheila McCarthy
The Parent Trap (1998)
As: Elizabeth James
Hallie Parker and Annie James are identical twins separated at a young age because of their parents' divorce. unknowingly to their parents, the girls are sent to the same summer camp where they meet, discover the truth about themselves, and then plot with each other to switch places. Hallie meets her mother, and Annie meets her father for the first time in years.
Runtime: 128 min.
Directed by: Nancy Meyers
Stars: Lindsay Lohan | Elaine Hendrix | Lisa Ann Walter | Natasha Richardson | Dennis Quaid
Nell (1994)
As: Dr. Paula Olsen
In a remote woodland cabin, a small town doctor discovers Nell - a beautiful young hermit woman with many secrets.
Runtime: 112 min.
Directed by: Michael Apted
Stars: Liam Neeson | Jodie Foster | Natasha Richardson | Richard Libertini | Robin Mullins
Widows' Peak (1994)
As: Edwina Broome
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
Runtime: 101 min.
Directed by: John Irvin
Stars: Mia Farrow | Jim Broadbent | Natasha Richardson | Joan Plowright | Adrian Dunbar
Zelda (1993)
As: Zelda Fitzgerald
Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson
Directed by: Pat O'Connor
Stars: Timothy Hutton | Natasha Richardson | Spalding Gray | Robert Knepper | Daniel Gerroll
Hostages (1993)
As: Jill Morrell
True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: David Wheatley
Stars: Colin Firth | Ciarán Hinds | Kathy Bates | Jay O. Sanders | Natasha Richardson
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991)
As: Sybil
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Ben Lewin
Stars: Bob Hoskins | Jeff Goldblum | Michel Blanc | Natasha Richardson | Carlos Kloster
Past Midnight (1991)
As: Laura Mathews
A man gets out of prison after 15 years for stabbing his wife to death, and his social worker becomes convinced he was innocent. As she researches his case, and interviews other people who were involved, she begins to fall in love with him, as her friends warn her that he's dangerous.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Jan Eliasberg
Stars: Clancy Brown | Tom Wright | Natasha Richardson | Rutger Hauer | Kibibi Monie
The Handmaid's Tale (1990)
As: Kate / Offred
In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility.
Runtime: 109 min.
Directed by: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: Aidan Quinn | Faye Dunaway | Robert Duvall | Natasha Richardson | Elizabeth McGovern
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
As: Mary
An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: Helen Mirren | Christopher Walken | Rupert Everett | Natasha Richardson | Manfredi Aliquo
Fat Man and Little Boy (1989)
As: Jean Tatlock
This film reenacts the Manhattan Project, the secret wartime project in New Mexico where the first atomic bombs were designed and built.
Runtime: 127 min.
Directed by: Roland Joffé
Stars: John Cusack | Dwight Schultz | Bonnie Bedelia | Paul Newman | Laura Dern
Patty Hearst (1988)
As: Patricia Hearst
The true story of a rich girl who was abducted by American revolutionaries in the 1970's. Her time spent with her captors made her question herself and her way of life and she joined forces with the cause that her abductors were fighting for. This created a US scandal and Patty Hearst has become a pop culture fixture. Written by Josh Pasnak
Runtime: 108 min.
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: William Forsythe | Ving Rhames | Frances Fisher | Natasha Richardson | Jodi Long
A Month in the Country (1987)
As: Alice Keach
Set in the early 1920s, the film follows Tom Birkin, who has been employed to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a church in the small rural community of Oxgodby, Yorkshire. The escape to the idyllic countryside is cathartic for Birkin, haunted by his experiences in World War I. Birkin soon fits into the slow-paced life of the remote village, and over the course of the ...
Runtime: 96 min.
Directed by: Pat O'Connor
Stars: Colin Firth | Jim Carter | Patrick Malahide | Kenneth Branagh | Natasha Richardson
Gothic (1986)
As: Mary Shelley
The year is 1816. A sprawling villa in Switzerland is the setting for a stormy night of madness. On this night of the "Haunted Summer," five famous friends gather around an ancient skull to conjure up their darkest fears. Poets Lord Byron and Percy Shelley, Shelley's fiancée Mary Godwin, Mary's stepsister Claire Clairemont and Byron's friend John Polidori spend a hallucinogenic evening confronting their ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Ken Russell
Stars: Timothy Spall | Julian Sands | Gabriel Byrne | Myriam Cyr | Natasha Richardson
Every Picture Tells a Story (1984)
As: Miss Bridle
James Scott's biopic of his father William Scott, his childhood and his origins as a painter.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: James Scott
Stars: Alex Norton | Phyllis Logan | Leonard O'Malley | John Docherty | Mark Airlie
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
As: Flower Girl at Wedding (Uncredited)
A chronicle of events that led to the British involvement in the Crimean War against Russia and which led to the siege of Sevastopol and the fierce Battle of Balaclava on October 25, 1854 which climaxed with the heroic, but near-disastrous calvary charge made by the British Light Brigade against a Russian artillery battery in a small valley which resulted in the near-destruction of the brigade due to error ...
Runtime: 139 min.
Directed by: Tony Richardson
Stars: Vanessa Redgrave | Trevor Howard | John Gielgud | Harry Andrews | Jill Bennett