Natasha Richardson starred on Broadway in a quintet of strikingly different productions -- each one demonstrating why the actress was a true daughter of the theater, a worthy member of an illustrious acting dynasty.

Richardson, who died Wednesday in a Manhattan hospital following a skiing accident in Canada, was loyal to the stage throughout her career (even while having a film career that included "Gothic," "Patty Hearst," "Nell" and "The Parent Trap").

Her most prominent New York appearance came a decade ago in the Roundabout Theatre Company's long-running revival of "Cabaret," for which she won a 1998 best-actress Tony.

Richardson, schooled in the classics on stage in London, made her Broadway debut in 1993 in another Roundabout revival, Eugene O'Neill's "Anna Christie." In it, she played the title character, an unhappy young woman who falls from grace into the world's oldest profession.