Natasha Richardson biography: This was hardly surprising, for profiles of Natasha Richardson – "Tash" to her friends – tended to define her by a web of family relationships: she was the granddaughter of Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson; the daughter of Tony Richardson and Vanessa Redgrave; the niece of Corin and Lynn Redgrave; the cousin of Jemma Redgrave; the sister of Joely Richardson; the ex-wife of the producer Robert Fox (brother of James and Edward); and finally the wife of Liam Neeson
She began her career in earnest after winning a bit-part as a "young whore" in the 1984 television series Ellis Island, and won the London Drama Critics' award for most promising newcomer for her 1985 West End debut as Nina in Chekhov's Seagull, in which her mother played Nina's mother, Arkadina.
Natasha Richardson always remained close to her family, but her years in the United States, where she took full citizenship, seemed to have freed her from their shadow. In 2005 she played a Russian countess who is drawn towards Ralph Fiennes's blind former American diplomat in the Merchant Ivory film The White Countess, which also starred her mother and her aunt, Lynn Redgrave. In Evening (2007) she appeared with her mother as a middle-aged daughter coming to terms with her mother's imminent death
Natasha Richardson quote:I was told our marriage would be cursed. I thought, 'Don't let this be true'. I've thought about it since, too. I try to put it out of my mind. It was an opinion given straight to my face by someone I trusted. 'You will never be happy', he said. 'Your marriage will end in disaster'.
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