Warwick Davis' wife reportedly left him an eye-watering £500,000 fortune when she died.
The Harry Potter star announced in April that his wife Samantha had died in March at the age of 53. Calling her his “favourite human”, he said her death had left a “huge hole” in his life and in the lives of their two children.
According to The Sun, documents have now revealed that Samantha’s estate was worth £536,830 and that she left it all to Warwick, who she’d been with since they were in their teens.
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Warwick and Sammy met on the set of 1988 film Willow, where Warwick had a starring role as aspiring sorcerer Willow Ufgood and Sammy had a minor part as a Nelwyn villager. They tied the knot in 1991, before welcoming children Harrison and Annabelle.
Paying tribute after her death, Warwick said that Sammy was his “soul mate” and his “best friend” and that she was his “most trusted confidant and an ardent supporter of everything I did in my career”. “The most open, warm person I have ever known,” the star said in a moving statement. “Her passing has left a huge hole in our lives as a family."
The 54-year-old said that he missed his wife's "hugs". "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," he added.
The Star Wars actor also credited his wife with helping his career, saying she had made him think he could achieve anything” and that it was “like having a super-power”.
Samantha was an actor too, appearing in shows including Honky Sausages and Through The Dragon's Eye. She also played a goblin in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2, in which Warwick played charms professor Filius Flitwick. She was also a campaigner, and was one of the founders of the dwarfism charity Little People UK, along with her husband.
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