Natasha Richardson was a British actress who found success both on the stage as well as on the big screen.
The daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson and although she was always labelled as the first daughter of Redgrave she carved out a career for herself.
She was born on May 11 1963 and made her film debut in her father's 1968 movie The Charge of the Light Brigade, which also starred her mother.
She was educated at St. Paul's Girls' School before moving on to train at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, an acting career seemed inevitable.
She began her career in theatre in the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds before going on to make her West End debut in 1985 in The Seagull.
For her performance as Nina she won most promising newcomer from the London Drama Critics. She moved into television, working both here and in America, on The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Ellis Island.
Over the next few years the actress juggled many projects working on two Shakespeare plays as Ophelia in Hamlet and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as working with Ken Russell in Gothic.
She married her first husband in 1990 but they were divorced in 1992. She met her second husband Liam Neeson on the set of Nell in 1994, they married later that year.
After appearing in Widows' Peak and comedy The Parent Trap, the film role that she is most associated with, she returned to the stage.
And this time it was Broadway in the revival of Cabaret, in which she played Sally Bowles. For her performance she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical, Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical and Outer Critics Circle Award.
After this success she continued to juggle film and theatre roles as she starred in Blow Dry, Maid From Manhattan and Asylum before returning to the theatre to star in A Street Car Named Desire.
Her last big screen performance came last year when she appeared in Wild Child as headmistress Mrs Kingsley.
On Monday it was reported that the actress had been admitted to hospital after falling during a skiing lesson on the beginners slope at the Mont Tremblant resort.
But the actress showed no sign of injury until an hour later when she was taken to a nearby hospital as she was complaining of headaches.
It was revealed that she had suffered a traumatic brain injury and was transferred to Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal in critical condition before being moved to Lenox Hill in New York.
She died on March 18 after her life support was switched off.
She is survived by husband Liam Neeson and two sons Michael and Daniel.
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