British film and TV actress Joely Richardson has joined the cast of the drama series, The Tudors, for its fourth and final season, Showtime announced.

A private funeral was held Sunday in upstate New York for British-born film and stage actress Natasha Richardson, who died last week after a skiing accident.

British-born actress Natasha Richardson died Wednesday in New York of a head injury suffered in a skiing accident in Canada.

British-born actress Natasha Richardson has been taken off of life support at New York's Lenox Hill Hospital, veteran gossip columnist Liz Smith said.

By Judith Newmark, St. Louis Post-Dispatch Mar. 23--When she was a teenager in England, Lynn Redgrave hoped to grow up to be an equestrian.