Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head was a busy actor who appeared in over 100 projects during his 50-year career.
Anthony Heads 40-Year Love Story and Famous Kids
Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head was a busy actor who appeared in over 100 projects during his 50-year career.But the British star was also very much ...
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But the British star was also very much a family man as he had two children with his partner of over 40 years.
Head, who died on Thursday at age 72, shared daughters Emily and Daisy, with animal welfare advocate and author Sarah Fisher.
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Head and Fisher met in 1983 backstage at the National Theatre in London and set up a home in Bath, England, but never married.
Sadly, Fisher died just six months ago. 'It is immensely shocking to us all, and came with very little warning,' Emily and Daisy announced in December 2025. 'No words could ever express all that she encompassed.'
Sarah was 61 years old at the time of her death, according to the .
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Buffy The Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head was a busy actor who appeared in over 100 projects but he was also very much a family man; seen with his wife in 2013
Head, who died on Thursday at age 72, lived with animal welfare advocate and author Sarah Fisher for 40 years. Seen in 2005
Their meeting was electric, Head said, as he was instantly smitten.
'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 told Hello! magazine in 2001.
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Seen with Nicholas Brendon, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Charisma Carpenter, Alyson Hannigan in his hit show Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Born in Camden Town in 1954 to an artistic family, Head studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) before rising to prominence in musical theatre, where he memorably starred as Dr. Frank-N-Furter in a West End revival of The Rocky Horror Show.
He became known across households in the UK in the 1980s due to his role in the Nescafé Gold Blend TV adverts.
More recently, he found a new generation of fans as the villainous billionaire Rupert Mannion in Apple TV+'s award-winning comedy Ted Lasso.
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His other credits included The Iron Lady, Persuasion, The Inbetweeners and Manchild.
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