UPDATE: Actress Natasha Richardson Suffers Brain Damage After Skiing Accident, Not Expected To Survive

UPDATE (6:02 PM): The New York Post reports Natasha is being flown to New York so her family can say good-bye before she is taken off life support.

Our thoughts are with her loved ones, particularly her two young sons. 

Actress Natasha Richardson - daughter of Vanessa Redgrave and sister to Joely Richardson - suffered severe head trauma after a skiing accident at the Mont Tremblant resort outside of Montreal yesterday. Reports have trickled in that the actress is brain dead and will not survive her injuries.

Richardson was initially taken to Centre Hospitalier Laurentien, near the resort, but has since been transferred to Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal. Her husband, actor Liam Neeson, rushed to his wife’s side.

Earlier reports stated Richardson had died from her injuries, but have since been changed to reflect that the actress is brain dead and that her family is “treating it as a death.”

Witnesses said she seemed fine, at first, laughing off her fall during a skiing lesson, but later complained of headaches and was immediately taken to the hospital. She was said to still be conscious when she left the resort. 

Sympathies for Natasha Richardson [Time Out NY]

Natasha Richardson Hospitalized After Skiing Accident [E! Online]