Natasha Richardson (Actor)

"I could write you a book on why not to get involved with an actor. Because anybody who is good at what they do gets totally obsessed by it to the exclusion of other people. Because of the physical distance often involved. Because careers sometimes move at different rates. Because, oh God, there are so many reasons I never, never wanted to be involved with an actor. Ever. [Of course] that was before I met MY actor." - Natasha Richardson to Movieline magazine, December 1994

"I love my family and I feel privileged to come from it. But sometimes there's an idea that it's like royalty in some way. What a load of crap! We're a family of working actors, It's like coming from a family of carpenters or plumbers who work in the family business, generation after generation, that's all. Because it's acting it makes it more public, but we're worker bees, not royalty lying back on the couch. It's a really tough profession that has big perks and big privileges, but you also have to constantly expose yourself to rejection, criticism and humiliation." - Richardson to the Daily News, March 15, 1998

"Straightaway I am confronted by the gross unfairness of what might be called Natasha's dilemma. For most of her life, she has been portrayed as Vanessa's daughter. Now she is Liam's wife. Truly the resemblance to her mother is spooky. Though smaller and slimmer, the same finely drawn features stare back, For a moment, as I listen to her speak, all caressing cadences ending in tremble drifts, it could be an impersonation. Then I realise that I am making the mistake of seeking the similarities rather than noting the differences." - Noreen Taylor writing in The London Times, March 16, 1998

"Who's the mom and who's the daughter in that family can get to be a perplexing business." - agent Sam Cohn on the atypical relationships in the Redgrave family, from Parade magazine, Nov. 7, 1993

About her father, Richardson told AMERICAN FILM in March 1990: "He likes to give advice and is one of my strongest critics, ruthless in telling me what's not good enough, By the same token, he tells me when something is great. I really know he means that, and he also thinks in terms of career and things like that."

After her the death of her father, director Tony Richardson, she discovered the manuscript of his autobiography which was published under the title Long Distance Runner.

Natasha was named after the heroine in War and Peace.

On March 16, 2009, Richardson was injured in a skiing accident while in Mont-Tremblant, Québec, Canada. She was taken to Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal after reportedly suffering a serious head injury. The following day she was transferred to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, where she died on March 18 as a result of an epidural hematoma (bleeding in the brain) due to blunt impact to the head.