Peaceful Angel

Natasha Richardson was born in London, a member of the Redgrave family, an acting dynasty, the daughter of the late director and producer Tony Richardson and actress Vanessa Redgrave.

Richardson made her film debut in 1968 at the age of four in a film directed by her father, The Charge of the Light Brigade.

Her official career began in regional theatre, at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, England, while her screen debut was in Every Picture Tells a Story in 1984. A year later, Richardson appeared in a revival of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull--her first professional work in London's West End. She also starred in a London stage production of High Society, adapted from the Cole Porter film, and portrayed Mary Shelley in Ken Russell's Gothic.

In 1998, she won a Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her performance as Sally Bowles in Cabaret. In 2005, she was onstage again, as Blanche DuBois in their revival of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire.

Her first marriage was to filmmaker Robert Fox, from 1990 to 1992.

She married actor Liam Neeson in 1994, and had two sons with him: Micheál and Daniel.

Natasha Richardson helped raise millions of dollars in the fight against AIDS after her father, Tony Richardson, died of AIDS-related causes in 1991.

Richardson was actively involved in amfAR, becoming a board of trustees member in 2006, and participating in many other AIDS charities including Bailey House, God's Love We Deliver, Mothers' Voices, AIDS Crisis Trust and National AIDS Trust, for which she was an ambassador. Richardson received amfAR's Award of Courage in November 2000.

She didn't make a lot of noise, but the silence upon her passing is deafening.