Colleagues Remember Natasha Richardson
Posted on Mar 19, 2009 @ 10:20AM - Add a comment
Within hours of the news of actress Natasha Richardson's death as result of head injuries during a skiing lesson, kind words from colleagues and friends poured in from around the show business world.
"She was a little girl but already beautiful and graceful," Jane Fonda, who co-starred with Richardson's mother Vanessa Redgrave in 1977's Julia, wrote of meeting the actress, then 14, in her blog. "It didn't surprise me that she became such a talented actor. It is hard to even imagine what it must be like for her family. My heart is heavy."
Stage/screen director Sam Mendes, whose Broadway Cabaret production garnered Richardson a Tony award in 1988, said the actress sapped up the best talents of Redgrave and her father, director Tony Richardson.
"Natasha combined the best of Redgrave and Richardson: the enormous depth and emotional force of a great actor on the one hand, and the intelligence and objectivity of a great director on the other," the director said. "She was one of a kind, a magnificent actress... it defies belief that this gifted, brave, tenacious, wonderful woman is gone."
