UPDATE: 3/17–There is a report Ms. Richardson is being flown to the United States and may be brain dead. I’ll follow up for direct links and confirmation. Continue your prayers. NY Post is reporting that she is brain dead. Let’s hope they’re wrong. More when I get it.
12:35p PT: TMZ is reporting hospital officials say Richardson is sedated and has brain swelling, not brain dead. So there may be hope. Continue those prayers.
1:10P PT: CBC reports Natasha Richardson is out of Canada, condition unknown; Family to make statement tomorrow. Here is CBC video report.
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While I don’t like some of her politics (but certainly not as bad as her mother Vanessa Redgrave) she’s one of the more talented actors of our generation. Reports are she has suffered a severe head injury while skiing. Send good vibes.
Natasha Richardson reportedly critically injured in skiing accident
Actress Natasha Richardson, best known for roles in The Parent Trap (1998), Nell (1994), and Maid in Manhattan (2002), was admitted to a Montreal hospital Monday following a skiing accident. People.com confirms that the actress, wife of actor Liam Neeson and daughter of actress Vanessa Redgrave, was first admitted to the Centre Hospitalier Laurentien following a skiing accident in the Mont Tremblant resort area. At 5 p.m. she was transferred to Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, reportedly having suffered a traumatic brain injury.
Truly, pray for this woman. She’s a 45-year old mother of two and deserves to survive this.
Unlike most on the left, I can disagree with political views and still not wish ill of you. Most of us have some redeeming qualities.
May I wish for her and her family, nothing but the BEST!!
Why is she referred to as “Actor” in the headline and then “Actress” in the body of the story?
God Bless her family; what a horrible injury and a nightmarish thing to consider.
RIPPER, the speech police are trying to get rid of the word “actress.” (Because it’s sexist, you know, unlike having roles in movies where the woman’s job is to prance around naked and be the hero’s ornament. Oops!) The problem is that no one outside of a Hollywood cocktail party uses the phrase “female actor,” so even within the media, there are mix ups. The author of the article I’m sure is not the one who titled it.
I just said a prayer for her. Politics aside, that is one talented family and I’ve always enjoyed them.
I worked and still work in transfusion services for trauma centers here in Utah. During the ski season, ski/boarding accidents are, by far, the number one Trauma I coming into hospitals here. Lord, help this lady…..
ashleymatt
I notice that at the Oscar’s the awards are for Best Actor, Best Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress. Sort of a contradiction.
it is being reported that she is brain dead
http://widetrends.com/actress-natasha-richardson-brain-dead-after-skiing-accident-in-montreal/
God Bless her and family
I saw Natasha and her mother in “Lady Windermere’s Daughter” in London and, besides being as phenomenal as you would think, they could not have been more gracious after the performance. Prayers need no politics to work and she and her family certainly have mine.
LauraVW
The family is phenomenally talented but I would be loath to pay money to see Vanessa or Corin Redgrave in anything.
I have been praying for her since I heard the news this afternoon. So much tragedy in the Redgrave family. My God I hope she pulls through this.
I am hoping for the best for her. The story I read on this incident sounds tragic, rather like Christopher Reeves’s accident. It was a simple thing. She was skiing down the bunny slope (which has a nice gradual slope and wide open space to ski on–it’s for beginners) and wiped out into “what appeared” to be soft snow. She was conscious after the accident and reassured people that came to her aid that she was alright. It sounded like she was up and walking around, unaided. Later in the day in her hotel room she came down with a bad headache, and decided to go to the hospital. That’s where this trouble started. After reading that I wondered if the “soft snow” contained something hard, like a rock. A hard blow to the head is not something to be ignored. Anyway, hoping for the best.
My favorite:
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: “The Copper Beaches.”
Tragic. Can’t talk now.
Natasha was a wonderful actor and judging by the reactions from her fellow actors, she must have been a wonderful person.