Actor Anthony Head, best known for his roles in Buffy The Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso, has died at the age of 72. It comes months after the death of his partner, Sarah Fisher.
Anthony Head, who died of “complications due to pneumonia” on Friday, and his longtime partner Sarah Fisher died suddenly on January 1 at age 61, the couple’s daughters, Emily and Daisy, confirmed in a Facebook post at the time.
“We are so sorry to have to share the news that our extraordinary, kind and talented mother, Sarah, passed away recently,” Emily and Daisy wrote in their Facebook statement, adding that the passing was “immensely shocking to us all” as it “came with very little warning.”
“No words could ever express all that she encompassed, or begin to describe the crater her absence has left.”
View 4 ImagesSarah Fisher, Anthony Head and Emily Head(Image: Dan Wooller/Shutterstock)
Here’s everything to know about Anthony Head’s wife and kids.
The couple was introduced to each other in the early 80’s backstage at the National Theatre, where Head was performing in a run of “Danton’s Death.”
“I was doing a play called Danton’s Death and for the last entrance I had to come on as a soldier taking traitors to the guillotine,” he recalled to Hello! Magazine in 2001, per People. “I’d 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.”
Head continued, “I got there earlier and earlier in the hope I’d see her again. Eventually, we’d sit and chat before I’d have to go on for a beheading.”
Head told The Mirror in January 2012 that they never actually married. “I’ve asked her to marry me several times, but she’s not interested,” he said.
View 4 ImagesActor Anthony Stewart Head and his partner Sarah Fisher, an animal therapist pose for a photograph at her stables near Timsbury (Image: Getty Images)
Prior to her death, Fisher lived with Head in Bath, England, where the animal rights advocate ran Tilley Farm — a sanctuary for rescued horses, ponies and donkeys.
While she and Head were together from 1982 until her death, Head revealed in 2018 that Fisher simply had no desire to get married.
“She just isn’t interested [in getting married]. She says f–k off and then runs off to throw up,” he joked to the Daily Telegraph.
Still, he considered himself to be “married” and added, “I just can’t imagine my life without Sarah. And I definitely wouldn’t want to.”
View 4 ImagesDaisy Head, Emily Head, Anthony Head and Sarah Fisher(Image: Anthony Harvey/Shutterstock)
Head and Fisher welcomed two daughters, Emily and Daisy. As they grew up, Emily and Daisy often stepped out with their parents for public events, including award shows and red carpets.
Daisy and Emily both followed in their father’s footsteps and became actresses.
Fisher sadly died in December 2025, her daughters announced on Facebook.
“It is immensely shocking to us all, and came with very little warning,” the post read. “No words could ever express all that she encompassed, or begin to describe the crater her absence has left.
The post continued, “We know how profoundly she has impacted the lives of so many, and we couldn’t be more proud of the legacy she is leaving behind.”
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Head then passed away in 1999.
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