Anthony Head and longtime partner Sarah Fisher died just months apart: Inside their decades-long love story

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer” actor Anthony Head, who died of “complications due to pneumonia” on Friday at age 72, and his longtime partner Sarah Fisher passed away just months apart from each other.

Fisher died suddenly on Jan. 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.”

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.”

The couple was introduced to each other 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.”

The British actor became a household name in the late ’90s when he took on the role of Rupert Giles in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.”

Elsewhere in his Telegraph interview, Head credited much of his success to Fisher’s encouragement.

“In the early days, I was unemployed and I would sit in my room, crying on the phone, saying: ‘I think I should come home.’ But Sarah told me to stick it out and go to acting classes. And that’s exactly what I did.”

He stepped down as a main cast member in the WB and UPN series’ sixth season to return home to the UK and be with his family.

“It’s always been a family decision as to how long I’d be out there, so when I first asked them what they thought of me leaving, they said: ‘Please don’t. It’s a really cool show and we like you in it,'” Head told the Guardian in February 2002.

“When we eventually agreed that I’d become a recurring regular rather than a series regular, Emily [who’s 13] found it especially difficult to come to terms with the fact I wasn’t in the opening credits any more,” he recalled.

Head also found success with roles like the Prime Minister in “Little Britain” and Uther Pendragon in “Merlin.”

Head and Fisher’s daughters, who often made appearances with them as a family at red carpet events, also became actresses. Daisy shared the screen with her father in Freeform’s “Guilt,” and Emily played Head’s daughter in the BBC comedy-drama miniseries “The Invisibles.”