Harry Potter actor Warwick Davis's wife Samantha has died, aged 53

Published date18 April 2024
Publication titleWalesOnline (Wales)
Samantha co-founded the dwarfism charity Little People UK and featured in the final Harry Potter film, alongside Warwick. “Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family. I miss her hugs,” Warwick said in the statement to the BBC

He added that she was his “most trusted confidant and an ardent supporter of everything I did in my career”. The actor continued: “She was a unique character, always seeing the sunny side of life she had a wicked sense of humour and always laughed at my bad jokes.”

The couple met on the set of George Lucas’s film Willow and married three years later in 1991. Samantha also played a goblin in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 while her husband played both Professor Flitwick and the goblin Griphook in all eight films in the franchise.

Their two children together, Annabelle and Harrison, also paid tribute to their mother, saying: “Her love and happiness carried us through our whole lives”

“Mum is our best friend and we’re honoured to have received a love like hers.” In an interview with People in 2022, Warwick opened up about the grief he and Samantha went through after their first son died shortly after he was...

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