Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Anthony Head died months after his longtime partner, Sarah Fisher.
The couple’s daughters, Emily and Daisy Head, announced this past January that their mother had died in late 2025.
“We are so sorry to have to share the news that our extraordinary, kind and talented mother, Sarah, passed away recently,” they wrote at the time. “It is immensely shocking to us all, and came with very little warning.”
The statement continued, “No words could ever express all that she encompassed, or begin to describe the crater her absence has left. 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.”
Fisher was an animal rights activist who worked closely with the Battersea Dogs and Cats Home and Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary. She also owned the 90-acre Tilley Farm.
“We only wish she’d had more time to share her knowledge and brilliance with us, and the world. Our grief knows no bounds, nor did the reaches of her incredibly unique and irreplaceable spirit,” Emily and Daisy’s statement concluded. “We know how much she treasured the relationships she had with all of her friends, colleagues and collaborators, many of whom she stayed in contact with here, and we thank you all for being a part of her enriched life.”
The sisters released a similar tribute on Friday, June 5, when their dad died at age 72. Emily and Daisy confirmed in a lengthy statement that pneumonia complications led to their father’s death.
“It has been, and forever will be, an honor and a privilege to be his daughters, and to have witnessed firsthand the impact both he and his work have had on so many,” they wrote, in part. “We know how dearly he will be missed by friends, colleagues, and fans of the shows he was in — he loved his job very much, and he always considered himself incredibly lucky, to have been able to work alongside such exceptionally talented people, in such wonderful productions, across a career that spanned several decades.”
Anthony was known for his roles as Rupert Giles on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Rupert Mannion on Ted Lasso.
“We know his legacy will live on, in the shows he was a part of, and in the audiences that love them,” Emily and Daisy’s statement concluded. “How lucky we are to know we are able to watch him doing what he loved, even when he is no longer with us. We kindly ask that our privacy is respected at this difficult time.”
Years before their respective deaths, Anthony spoke candidly about the love he had for Fisher in a 2009 interview with U.K.’s The Times, calling her “the most influential person in my life.”
