From the Washington Post:

Tony Award-winning actress Natasha Richardson, 45, a member of a British acting dynasty, died March 18 from a head injury she suffered while skiing.

Ms. Richardson, a daughter of Academy Award-winning actress and human rights activist Vanessa Redgrave and the wife of actor Liam Neeson, fell on a beginners’ slope near Montreal during a ski lesson March 16. Ms. Richardson initially appeared uninjured, but an hour later, she complained of a headache. As her condition worsened, she was flown to a hospital near her home in New York City, where her family gathered.

Ms. Richardson’s father was producer Tony Richardson (”Tom Jones”). Her maternal grandparents were actors Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson. An aunt is actress Lynn Redgrave, with whom Ms. Richardson and her mother appeared in the 2005 Merchant Ivory film “The White Countess.”

Ms. Richardson might have been overshadowed by the public profiles of her family members, particularly her mother’s, but she was widely respected for the quality and versatility of her performances.

She won a Tony Award for the 1998 Broadway revival of the musical “Cabaret,” in which she played bohemian showgirl Sally Bowles, and she starred in a variety of film, TV and stage productions. She played Blanche Du Bois in Tennessee Williams’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” (2005) and appeared in Disney’s remake of “The Parent Trap” (1998).