Fiennes pays tribute to Richardson

Ralph Fiennes has paid tribute to Natasha Richardson.

The Hurt Locker star made the comments as he presented Richardson's mother Vanessa Redgrave with a Harper's Bazaar lifetime achievement award, The Mirror reports.

Fiennes remarked that he felt "blessed" to have known the actress, who died earlier this year after a skiing accident.

He said: "You may think I'm a bit in love but I'm just a fan and a friend [of Redgrave] and if I am it's because of a great friendship I shared with Natasha.

"Through that great friendship I've got to know Vanessa, and Natasha was imbued with so many of your fantastic qualities as well as many of her own.

"I feel blessed to have had that friendship, and thus through that friendship to have known Vanessa."