Grieving Joely Richardson returns to work for first time since sister Natasha's tragic death

Grieving Joely Richardson returns to work for first time since sister Natasha's tragic death




A week and a half after the sudden death of Natasha Richardson, her devastated sister Joely has returned to work.

The actress put on a brave face yesterday as she filmed scenes on a deserted Westminster Bridge with Scottish actor Dougray Scott.

The pair are shooting the BBC’s adaptation of John Wyndham’s 1951 post-apocalyptic novel, The Day Of The Triffids.
Joely Richardson

Back to work: Joely Richardson filmed scenes with Dougray Scott for the BBC’s adaptation of The Day Of The Triffids in London over the weekend

Friends say the actress has thrown herself back into work as a means of coping with the devastating loss.



Natasha's mother Vanessa Redgrave cancelled plans to appear in the stage play The Year Of Magical Thinking, which centres on a woman coping with the loss of her daughter.

However, last week, the Oscar-winner accepted a part in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood biopic.
Joely Richardson

Brave face: The actress is mourning the sudden death of her sister Natasha
Richardson

Tragic loss: Natasha, pictured here with mother Vanessa and sister Joely, died after a skiing accident

She is also co-starring in Joely's Day Of The Triffids, but wrapped her part prior to her daughter's death.

Natasha's husband Liam Neeson, who was filming his new movie Chloe at the time of his wife's skiing accident, is taking time off to mourn her death with the couple's teenage sons.

Meanwhile, it has emerged that Natasha's family requested her organs be donated to patients in need after she was taken off life support at Manhattan's Lenox Hill Hospital on March 18.

A family friend told America's People magazine: 'She spent so much time fighting the stigma of AIDS; someone like that would naturally donate her organs.

'At least by donating her organs something good could come out of [the tragedy].'

The 45-year-old - a member of the great Redgrave acting dynasty - had been left brain dead following an apparently innocuous fall on a nursery ski slope in Canada on March 16.