Posted by mel at 9:45 PM

oh my gosh, natasha richardson is dead!

so unbelievable! i used to love watching her on "parent trap". she also acted in "maid in manhattan" and "wild child".

Natasha Richardson dies at 45; award-winning actress from famous theatrical family

By John Horn
March 19, 2009

Natasha Richardson, the luminous British actress from one of the world's great acting families, whose performances ranged from the high-brow drama "The Handmaid's Tale" to the lightweight comedy "The Parent Trap" and the Tony-winning Broadway production of "Cabaret," died Wednesday. She was 45.

The wife of "Schindler's List" actor Liam Neeson and daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and the late film director Tony Richardson died at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York. The cause of death was not announced, but she had been hospitalized after suffering a devastating brain injury while skiing Monday.

Actress 'seemed all right'

On Monday afternoon, Richardson was taking a lesson on a beginner's slope at Quebec's Mont Tremblant ski resort, north of Montreal.

The actress, who was not wearing a helmet, suffered what initially appeared to be a benign fall, not hitting anyone or anything else, according to the resort.

"She showed no injuries," Mont Tremblant spokeswoman Lyne Lortie told CBC News on Tuesday. "She was talking. She seemed all right. But [the ski patrol] have to follow strict procedures, so they brought her back to the bottom of the slope."

Richardson agreed to return to her hotel room, accompanied by the ski patrol and her instructor. About an hour later, she complained of a headache and was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, Centre Hospitalier Laurentien in Ste-Agathe. She was eventually transferred to Montreal's larger Sacré-Coeur hospital.

Neeson immediately left the Toronto set of the Atom Egoyan film Chloe to join her Monday evening in Montreal.

Around midday on Tuesday, the actress was taken by private plane to New York, where the couple lives with their sons.

life is so precious.