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• Liam Neeson
and Natasha Richardson were awarded $85, 000 in damages Friday in their libel
suit against the publishers of the London Daily Mirror, which had claimed that
their four-year marriage was on the rocks.
• The daughter of British actress Vanessa Redgrave and director Tony Richardson,
Natasha Richardson was named for the heroine in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace.
• She is sisters with Joely Richardson (Nip/Tuck).
• Won a libel case against newspapers who claimed that her marriage was in
trouble. [October 1998]
• Is a naturalized United States citizen.
• Won Broadway's 1998 Tony Award as Best Actress (Musical) for a revival of
"Cabaret." She was also nominated as Best Actress (Play) in 1993 for a revival
of Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie."
• An accomplished cook, she is renowned for the lavish dinners she and husband
Liam regularly throw at their upstate New York estate. Regular diners at the
couple's table have included Ralph Fiennes, Griffin Dunne, Meryl Streep, Laura
Linney, etc
• Half-sister of Carlo Gabriel Nero.
• Franco Nero gave her away at her marriage to Liam Neeson. |
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