{"id":4841,"date":"2026-06-05T18:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/anthony-head-longtime-partner-sarah-fisher-died-months-apart\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T18:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:52:42","slug":"anthony-head-longtime-partner-sarah-fisher-died-months-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/anthony-head-longtime-partner-sarah-fisher-died-months-apart\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony Head, longtime partner Sarah Fisher died months apart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F3%2F2026%2F06%2F129863591.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d actor Anthony Head, who <a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/05\/celebrity-news\/anthony-head-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-and-ted-lasso-actor-dies-at-72\/\">died of \u201ccomplications due to pneumonia\u201d<\/a> on Friday at age 72, and his longtime partner Sarah Fisher passed away just months apart from each other.<\/p>\n<p>Fisher died suddenly on Jan. 1 at age 61, the couple\u2019s daughters, Emily and Daisy, confirmed in a Facebook post at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are so sorry to have to share the news that our extraordinary, kind and talented mother, Sarah, passed away recently,\u201d Emily and Daisy wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=1280058630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">their Facebook statement<\/a>, adding that the passing was \u201cimmensely shocking to us all\u201d as it \u201ccame with very little warning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo words could ever express all that she encompassed, or begin to describe the crater her absence has left.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>\u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d star Anthony Head and his longtime partner Sarah Fisher (both pictured above attending a 2006 charity screening of \u201cThe Devil Wears Prada\u201d) died just months apart from each other. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Fisher (seen above with Head and their daughters, Emily and Daisy, at the 2023 \u201cDungeons &amp; Dragons\u201d premiere) died suddenly on Jan. 1 at age 61. <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter wp-block-nypost-editor-primary-tag\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Prior to her death, Fisher lived with Head in Bath, England, where the animal rights advocate ran Tilley Farm \u2014 a sanctuary for rescued horses, ponies and donkeys.<\/p>\n<p>While she and Head were together from 1982 until her death, Head revealed in 2018 that Fisher simply had no desire to get married. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe just isn\u2019t interested [in getting married]. She says f\u2013k off and then runs off to throw up,\u201d he joked to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/entertainment-anthony-head-a159370c846f4008a30c9c7b1d742156\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Daily Telegraph<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Still, he considered himself to be \u201cmarried\u201d and added, \u201cI just can\u2019t imagine my life without Sarah. And I definitely wouldn\u2019t want to.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Head, seen above bottle-feeding his daughter Daisy in a throwback photo with Fisher, died on Friday at age 72 of \u201ccomplications due to pneumonia.\u201d  <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The couple met in 1982 backstage at the National Theatre, where Head was performing in a play called \u201cDanton\u2019s Death.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The couple was introduced to each other backstage at the National Theatre, where Head was performing in a run of \u201cDanton\u2019s Death.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was doing a play called Danton\u2019s Death and for the last entrance I had to come on as a soldier taking traitors to the guillotine,\u201d he recalled to Hello! Magazine in 2001, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/all-about-anthony-head-family-11991992\">per People<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019d wait in a corridor at the back with my musket and one day this beautiful lady walked past carrying a pint of beer for some guy front of house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head continued, \u201cI got there earlier and earlier in the hope I\u2019d see her again. Eventually, we\u2019d sit and chat before I\u2019d have to go on for a beheading.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The British actor became a household name in the late \u201990s when he took on the role of Rupert Giles in \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The actor gained fame in the US as \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d character Rupert Giles (seen above in a Season 1 promotional photo). <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Head (pictured above in a \u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d cast photo) attributed his success to Fisher\u2019s words of encouragement, telling the Daily Telegraph that she told him to \u201cstick it out.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">\u00a920thCentFox\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Elsewhere in his Telegraph interview, Head credited much of his success to Fisher\u2019s encouragement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the early days, I was unemployed and I would sit in my room, crying on the phone, saying: \u2018I think I should come home.\u2019  But Sarah told me to stick it out and go to acting classes. And that\u2019s exactly what I did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stepped down as a main cast member in the WB and UPN series\u2019 sixth season to return home to the UK and be with his family.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s always been a family decision as to how long I\u2019d be out there, so when I first asked them what they thought of me leaving, they said: \u2018Please don\u2019t. It\u2019s a really cool show and we like you in it,&#8217;\u201d Head <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/g2\/story\/0,3604,652508,00.html\">told the Guardian<\/a> in February 2002.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>He stepped down as a main caster in the sixth season and returned home to the UK to be with his family (pictured above without daughter Daisy at a charity event). <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Head also became known for his roles like the Prime Minister in \u201cLittle Britain\u201d and Uther Pendragon in \u201cMerlin\u201d (2008\u20132012).<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"credit\">WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen we eventually agreed that I\u2019d become a recurring regular rather than a series regular, Emily [who\u2019s 13] found it especially difficult to come to terms with the fact I wasn\u2019t in the opening credits any more,\u201d he recalled.<\/p>\n<p>Head also found success with roles like the Prime Minister in \u201cLittle Britain\u201d and Uther Pendragon in \u201cMerlin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Head and Fisher\u2019s daughters, who often made appearances with them as a family at red carpet events, also became actresses. Daisy shared the screen with her father in Freeform\u2019s \u201cGuilt,\u201d and Emily played Head\u2019s daughter in the BBC comedy-drama miniseries \u201cThe Invisibles.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2026\/06\/05\/celebrity-news\/anthony-head-longtime-partner-sarah-fisher-died-months-apart\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBuffy the Vampire Slayer\u201d actor Anthony Head, who died of \u201ccomplications due to pneumonia\u201d on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/129863591.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/login9ja.com\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}