Tony Award Winner Natasha Richardson Dies at 45; Broadway to Dim Lights in Her Honor

Tony Award winner Natasha Richardson has died in New York City, according to the BBC. She was 45 years old. The marquees of Broadway theatres in New York will be dimmed in her memory on Thursday, March 19, at exactly 8:00pm for one minute.

As previously reported, Richardson fell while taking skiing lessons at a Canadian resort on March 17. While she immediately recovered, she complained of a headache shortly after the fall, and was rushed to a Canadian hospital. She was later flown into New York, and declared brain-dead at Lenox Hill Hospital. She was reportedly taken off life support on Wednesday.

Richardson was the daughter of Oscar and Tony-winner Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson. She is survived by her husband, actor Liam Neeson, their sons, Micheal and Daniel, her mother, as well as her aunt, Lynn Redgrave, her uncle, Corin Redgrave, and her sister, Joely Richardson.

The actress appeared numerous times on Broadway and the West End, and won the Tony for her role as Sally Bowles in the Roundabout Theatre’s revival of Cabaret. She was Tony-nominated for the Roundabout’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s Anna Christie, opposite Neeson, and her additional Broadway credits included Closer and A Streetcar Named Desire. She most recently headlined the Roundabout’s benefit concert version of Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music alongside her mother.

Richardson’s many film and television credits include The Handmaid’s Talel, A Month in the Country, Patty Hearst, Suddenly Last Summer, Nell, Maid in Manhattan, and Evening.