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“Natasha combined the best of [Vanessa] Redgrave and [Tony] Richardson: the enormous depth and emotional force of a great actor on the one hand, and the intelligence and objectivity of a great director on the other. She was one of a kind, a magnificent actress. … It defies belief that this gifted, brave, tenacious, wonderful woman is gone.”
— Sam Mendes, movie director, in one of many tributes to the actress Natasha Richardson, who died Wednesday after a fall at a Montreal ski resort
