Warwick Davis: Career, Net Worth, Family & BAFTA 2025

Born: February 3, 1970 ·
Height: 3 ft 6 in (107 cm) ·
Spouse: Samantha Davis (1991–2024) ·
Children: 2 ·
Harry Potter roles: 2 ·
BAFTA Fellowship: 2025

Eight rows compress a 40-plus-year career: franchise roles in two of the biggest film series ever made, a 33-year marriage, and a Fellowship from the UK film academy.

What is Warwick Davis doing today?

BAFTA’s citation for the Fellowship is the clearest answer: the academy honored not just four decades of acting, but Davis’s advocacy work, his talent agency, his charity and his theatre company supporting actors under five feet tall. That citation defines his present tense better than any upcoming project.

Davis received the award at the EE BAFTA Film Awards in February 2025 and dedicated it to Samantha and to everyone who supported his career (The Irish News / PA (UK news agency)).

What TV show does Warwick Davis host?

No current hosting gig is confirmed in the sources behind this article. The question surfaces because Davis’s TV footprint is broad — Life’s Too Short being the most visible example — but his verified calendar in 2025 points to franchise events, advocacy and the companies he runs, not a weekly desk.

Is Warwick Davis nice in real life?

• His Fellowship speech doubled as a thank-you to a lifetime of supporters
• He called Samantha his “favourite human” after her death
• He and Samantha founded Little People UK, which offers friendship, financial support and guidance to people with dwarfism (The Irish News / PA (UK news agency))

The public record is consistent: Davis answers grief with gratitude and fame with service. He used the biggest moment of his career to talk about the people who carried him to it, and the charity he co-founded with Samantha is a working institution, not a vanity project.

Are Ricky Gervais and Warwick Davis friends?

Life’s Too Short cast Davis as a fictionalized version of himself running a talent agency, with Gervais and Stephen Merchant working the edges. The comedy has dated, but its casting logic was clear: Davis was the one performer whose public image could carry a show about the business of being small in show business.

For a fuller account of the Fellowship and the season of loss around it, see our feature Warwick Davis: Career, Loss, and the BAFTA Fellowship.

The Fellowship gives that work a formal seal; the next chapter is his to define.

How many characters did Warwick Davis play in the Harry Potter series?

Two named characters, with one long-running presence. Davis played Professor Filius Flitwick in the Harry Potter franchise from 2001 to 2011 (BAFTA (UK film academy)), and he also played Griphook, the Gringotts goblin, in the later films.

The “how many” question usually comes from fans counting credits: does a goblin played by the same actor count as a separate character? Here, yes — and reporting credits Davis as Flitwick across all eight installments.

Is Warwick Davis in The Phantom Menace?

• Yes — Davis appears in Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), adding a prequel credit to his original trilogy ledger
• The same era produced his return as the title hero in the Disney+ series Willow (2022)

For fans of a certain age, Davis is the connective tissue between three filmmaking eras: practical suits, prequel effects and streaming-era revival.

What are Warwick Davis’s best-known movies?

His filmography maps to the biggest franchises in modern cinema: Return of the Jedi (1983), Willow (1988), Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (1999), Harry Potter (2001–2011) and Willow on Disney+ (2022). The outlier is Willow — a rare big-studio fantasy with a short-statured actor as its lead, and the role that proved he could carry a film, not just a scene.

What this means: the Harry Potter answer is two characters, but the career answer is wider — an Ewok, a goblin, a wizard and a hero, sometimes in the same decade.

How much did Warwick Davis’ wife leave him?

There is no published figure, and the reason sits in the timeline. Samantha Davis died on 24 March 2024 at University College Hospital in London, aged 53 (BBC News (UK public broadcaster); Lucasfilm (his Star Wars studio)). She suffered a cardiac arrest late on 23 March 2024 and was pronounced dead early the next morning; the family’s public focus became the inquest, which they hoped would provide answers, not a reading of a will.

Any sum circulating online about an inheritance should be treated as guesswork until attached to a court or probate record. None of the sources behind this article contains such a record.

How rich is Warwick Davis?

Estimates vary from outlet to outlet, and the variance is the tell. What’s documented is the base — a 40-plus-year career inside the most lucrative franchises in entertainment, plus an agency and theatre company that serve other short-statured performers. That combination explains a comfortable, long-term income; it doesn’t produce a verified net-worth figure.

The pattern: the inheritance question is really a grief question. Davis asked for privacy when Samantha died, and the sourced record has respected that request.

What happened to Warwick Davis’ son?

Nothing in the sourced record. Warwick and Samantha Davis had two children, Annabelle and Harrison (Lucasfilm (his Star Wars studio)), and Lucasfilm’s memorial notice listed both as Samantha’s survivors. No reporting reviewed for this article documents the death of a child.

How many kids has Warwick Davis lost?

• None confirmed. His son Harrison and daughter Annabelle are both named in the official family record
• Samantha’s death on 24 March 2024 is the only family death confirmed in the sources behind this article

Rumors that Davis’s son died circulate in comment sections, but they evaporate against the primary record. Lucasfilm’s statement and the coverage of Samantha’s death both point to one son, alive and named.

There is, however, a poignant family footnote: Warwick and Samantha both appeared in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (BBC News (UK public broadcaster)). A couple married in 1991, together on camera three decades later.

Who are Warwick Davis’s children?

Little is published about either sibling’s private life, and that’s the point. The public record shows two adults acknowledged by name in the Lucasfilm statement about their mother’s death; it doesn’t turn them into content.

The catch: grief questions get repackaged as gossip, and a living son gets erased. The fact-checked version is simpler: both children are alive, and their mother is the loss the family is mourning.

The record is clear: one family death is confirmed, and a false rumor has filled the space around it.

Who is Warwick Davis’ new partner?

There is no confirmed answer. No source reviewed for this article names a new partner, and Davis has not publicly confirmed a relationship since Samantha’s death. His statements after her death have centered on family and on the work they built together.

Has Warwick Davis found love again?

At the most public moment of his career, Davis chose to dedicate the award to his late wife and to the supporters who stood by him. That is the only verified romantic signal in the record, and it points backward, not forward.

The implication: “has Davis found love again” is the wrong question. The love story that shaped his adult life ended in March 2024; what comes next is his story to tell, not a tabloid’s to assign.

Warwick Davis timeline

One way to read a 40-year career is as a list of premieres. Another is as a chain of relationships — the franchise that launched him, the wife who co-founded a charity beside him, the academy that said thank you. The dates below are that chain.

The pattern: the Fellowship didn’t arrive at the end of a quiet career. It arrived 42 years after his first film, one year after his wife’s death, and at the height of his influence as an advocate — BAFTA wasn’t closing a chapter, it was endorsing the next one.

Separating fact from rumor

The questions people search for aren’t all answerable. Some have hard dates; some have no source at all. The lists below mark the difference.

We fact-check the health and family rumors separately in Warwick Davis: Wife’s Death, Health Rumors & What’s True.

The pattern: the confirmed list grows with every official statement; the unclear list shrinks only when Davis or his family chooses to speak.

In their own words

Three voices frame Davis better than any recap: his own tribute, the studio that knew the couple, and the broadcaster that covered the family’s hardest week.

“Favourite human.” That was Warwick Davis’s description of Samantha, his wife of 33 years, after her death.

Warwick Davis, quoted in BBC News (UK public broadcaster)

Samantha was “Warwick Davis’s wife and a member of the Lucasfilm community,” the studio wrote when it announced her death.

Lucasfilm, memorial notice

As the inquest into her death began, the family’s stated hope was that it would “provide answers.”

STV News, reporting on the family’s statement

The through-line: even at his highest honor, the people around Davis describe the same man — loyal, hard-working and unmistakably human.

The takeaway

Warwick Davis’s story is not the usual arc of rise, fade and recall. He never faded — he moved from blockbuster sets to building the institutions that give short-statured actors a path into the industry, and the 2025 Fellowship made that work official. It also turned it into a promise: the honor obliges the industry to keep casting the actors Davis’s agency and charity exist to support. For BAFTA and the studios that follow its lead, the next decision is clear — keep opening doors for actors under five feet tall, or let the year’s most human acceptance speech become a one-night gesture.

Frequently asked questions

The answers above stick to what can be cited; the open questions stay open.