Few images in Star Wars are as easy to picture as Wicket the Ewok, and for more than four decades the performer inside that fur suit has been Warwick Davis. He was about 11 when he first played the role, a detail preserved in BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs archive, and the same screen career later produced Willow, the Leprechaun films, and two roles in the Harry Potter series; this profile sorts the confirmed biography from the family rumors and health claims that keep circling online.
Born: 3 February 1970 · Breakthrough: Return of the Jedi (1983) · Known for: Willow, Leprechaun, Harry Potter · Children: 2 · Spouse: Samantha Davis (1991–2024) · TV role: Host of ITV’s Tenable
Quick snapshot
- Born 3 February 1970 in Epsom, England (BBC Ouch, the BBC’s disability magazine)
- First screen role: Wicket in Return of the Jedi (StarWars.com, Lucasfilm’s official site)
- Married Samantha Burge in 1991 (Entertainment Daily, a UK showbiz outlet)
- The exact cause of Samantha Davis’s death
- Whether Davis is in a new relationship
- An independently verified net worth figure
- Any credible public report of a stroke
- 1983: first Ewok role in Return of the Jedi (StarWars.com) (BAFTA, the British film academy)
- 1988: title role in Willow (BAFTA, the British film academy)
- 2022: returned as Willow in the Disney+ series (IMDb, the movie database)
- Continues hosting ITV’s Tenable (IMDb)
- Receives a BAFTA Fellowship in 2025 (BAFTA)
Six biographical facts, one pattern: the career milestones are easy to verify, while money and health details stay out of official records.
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Full name | Warwick Ashley Davis |
| Born | 3 February 1970 (BBC Ouch) |
| Known for | Willow (BAFTA) · Wicket (StarWars.com) · Harry Potter (IMDb) |
| Spouse | Samantha Davis (1991–2024) (Entertainment Daily) |
| Children | 2 (BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs) |
| Current role | Host of ITV’s Tenable (IMDb) |
What are Warwick Davis’s film credits?
The filmography runs five decades deep, and the confusion online starts when a single franchise is treated as the whole story. The verified credits break down like this.
How old was Warwick Davis when he filmed Star Wars?
- Age at first Ewok performance: about 11 (BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs)
- Film: Return of the Jedi, released 1983 (StarWars.com, Lucasfilm’s official site)
Davis was a child when he joined Return of the Jedi. BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs puts his first Ewok performance at about 11, and StarWars.com’s archive identifies Wicket as his best-known Star Wars role. That furry debut opened a door he has kept walking through for four decades.
What roles did Warwick Davis play in Harry Potter?
- Professor Filius Flitwick — the tiny Charms teacher (per IMDb’s filmography)
- Griphook — a goblin (same IMDb credit list)
In the Harry Potter films, Davis played two different characters in the same wizarding world: Professor Filius Flitwick and Griphook. Both roles are listed in IMDb’s filmography for Davis, and they show how naturally he moved between creature work and character work in the same franchise.
What are Warwick Davis’s other films and TV shows?
- Willow (1988) — title role (BAFTA)
- Leprechaun series (1993–2003) (IMDb)
The 1988 fantasy Willow gave Davis the title role, and BAFTA’s Fellowship profile treats it as a defining credit of his career. He then headlined the Leprechaun horror-comedy series across releases from 1993 to 2003, per IMDb, before Harry Potter brought him back into blockbuster territory.
The pattern: nearly every signature credit — Ewok, goblin, leprechaun, Willow — depends on Davis’s physical presence, yet no single franchise owns him. Each new generation has discovered him through a different door.
What this means: the franchise credits are the verified core of Davis’s public record, and they are the easiest claims to check against the archives.
How many kids does Warwick Davis have?
This is the family question that drives a large share of Davis-related searches, and the verified answer is shorter than the rumor mill suggests.
Who is Warwick Davis’ daughter?
- Annabelle Davis — daughter of Warwick and Samantha
- Annabelle is an actress (per Entertainment Daily’s family profile)
Warwick and Samantha Davis had two surviving children, Annabelle and Harrison. The family portrait comes from BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, which names both children in its profile of Davis. Their daughter Annabelle followed her father into acting — a detail Entertainment Daily, a UK showbiz outlet, records in its family profile.
What happened to Warwick Davis’ son?
- Harrison Davis — son of Warwick and Samantha
- No credible public report documents a serious accident or injury involving him
Harrison has stayed almost entirely out of the public eye, and the online stories about a serious accident or recent injury involving him trace to no credible public report. The verified record about the couple’s sons is quieter — and sadder — than the headlines suggest. Their first son, Lloyd, died nine days after birth after inheriting the relevant genetic conditions from both parents, as BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs documented. Entertainment Daily adds that the couple also lost a second son during pregnancy or around birth, with secondary accounts differing on the precise medical timing.
The trade-off: the public keeps asking for a tidy family story, but the family has shared its brightest and hardest moments in fragments — Annabelle’s acting career in the open, Lloyd’s loss in a single radio interview. Silence about Harrison is not evidence of a scandal.
Did Warwick Davis marry again?
Widowhood questions produce some of the most click-hungry pages about Davis, so the facts deserve separation from the framing.
Why did Warwick Davis’ wife pass away?
- Married Samantha Burge in 1991 (per Entertainment Daily’s family profile)
- Samantha Davis died in March 2024; exact cause not published in reviewed sources
Warwick Davis married actress Samantha Burge in 1991, according to Entertainment Daily’s family profile. Samantha died in March 2024, roughly 33 years after their wedding. The exact cause of her death has not been published in the sources reviewed for this article.
Is Warwick Davis with a new partner?
- No second marriage has been announced
- No new public relationship has been confirmed
Davis has not announced a second marriage, and no credible report confirms a new partner. That absence of an announcement is not evidence either way — it simply means the “new wife” stories that surface in some search results are built on nothing citable.
Why this matters: the demand for a relationship update outruns the record. Absence of news is being packaged as a story, and the search results reflect that gap.
What is Warwick Davis doing today?
Davis has not retired, and he has not slowed down. The current chapter combines TV presenting with franchise returns and a formal BAFTA honor.
Who are the current hosts of Tenable?
- Warwick Davis is the current host of ITV’s Tenable (per IMDb’s filmography)
The current host of ITV’s Tenable is Warwick Davis. He began presenting the quiz show in 2017, and his presenting credits also include ITV’s Celebrity Squares; both are listed in IMDb’s filmography for Davis.
Davis is now a daytime-TV fixture who still collects franchise returns, and the 2025 BAFTA Fellowship turns that double life into an official record.
Is Warwick Davis still acting?
- Reprised Willow in the 2022 Disney+ series Willow (per IMDb)
- Reprised Wicket in the 2023 Disney+ series Ahsoka (per IMDb)
Yes. In 2022 he returned as the title character in Disney+’s Willow series, and in 2023 he appeared once more as Wicket the Ewok in Ahsoka — both roles sit in the same IMDb filmography. Add a BAFTA Fellowship in 2025, and the verdict is clear: Davis is still very much working.
Where can you see Warwick Davis now?
- UK daytime TV: Tenable on ITV (IMDb lists Davis as host)
- Streaming: the Star Wars and Harry Potter libraries, Willow, and Ahsoka (IMDb’s filmography is the index)
For UK viewers, the simplest answer is Tenable on ITV. For streaming, Disney+’s catalog holds the Star Wars films, Willow, and Ahsoka, while the Harry Potter films stay in circulation across major platforms. The Leprechaun series and other older credits shift between services depending on region — IMDb’s filmography is the reliable index.
What this means: Davis has turned a four-decade film career into a present-tense TV brand, and the 2025 BAFTA Fellowship makes that transition official.
The implication: Davis’s calendar now spans both ITV and Disney+, and the two roles reinforce the same verified career record.
How rich is Warwick Davis?
Net worth content about Davis is everywhere, and almost all of it fails the most basic verification test.
Celebrity net-worth lists treat guesses as facts. No official Warwick Davis figure exists, yet the same estimate gets rewritten across sites until it stops looking like a guess.
What is Warwick Davis’s net worth?
- No official net worth figure has been published
- Public estimates vary and are not independently verified
There is no official Warwick Davis net worth. The actor has not published financial accounts, and the numbers in celebrity-wealth roundups are estimates that sites do not trace to a primary source.
How does Warwick Davis earn money?
- Acting: Star Wars, Willow, Harry Potter, Leprechaun, Ahsoka (IMDb’s credit list)
- Presenting: Celebrity Squares and Tenable on ITV (IMDb’s credit list)
- Business: Willow Management, the talent agency he co-founded (per BBC Ouch)
Davis’s income streams trace to the credits above plus one business venture. He co-founded Willow Management with his father-in-law, Peter Burroughs, to represent short and tall actors and performers, according to BBC Ouch. That agency gives him a second career layer beyond the camera work.
The catch: net worth is reverse-engineered. A guess becomes a headline, the headline becomes a citation, and three citations later the number reads as fact.
When did Warwick Davis have a stroke?
This question surfaces some of the most alarming pages about Davis, and the documented answer is that the premise collapses on inspection.
Has Warwick Davis had health problems?
- Documented condition: spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita (per BAFTA’s Fellowship profile)
- Stroke: no credible public report confirms one
No credible public report confirms that Warwick Davis has had a stroke. The condition that is documented — and that Davis has discussed — is spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare genetic skeletal condition associated with dwarfism, as BAFTA’s Fellowship profile states.
The stroke claim fails the source test. No credible public report documents a stroke, and Davis’s verified condition is SED — a bone-growth disorder, not a stroke narrative.
That distinction matters because the two claims get blurred online: a real condition (SED) gets mixed into an unconfirmed event (a stroke), and the unconfirmed event drives the clicks. After Samantha’s death in March 2024, Davis continued working in television, which is hard to square with the more dramatic health narratives circulating online.
The implication: if a headline claims Davis had a stroke, the burden of proof rests on the source. The documented record points to a bone-growth condition, not a stroke.
Warwick Davis: key dates
Ten dates trace the arc — from an Epsom childhood to a Disney+ revival, with a marriage, two children, and a loss in between. Filmography rows below follow IMDb’s credit list; biographical rows follow BBC, BAFTA, and family-profile reporting.
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Warwick Ashley Davis born in Epsom, England (BBC Ouch) |
| 1983 | First appeared as Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi (StarWars.com) |
| 1988 | Starred as Willow Ufgood in Willow (BAFTA) |
| 1991 | Married Samantha Burge (Entertainment Daily) |
| 1993 | Played the Leprechaun in Leprechaun (IMDb) |
| 2001 | Played Professor Flitwick in the first Harry Potter film (IMDb) |
| 2017 | Began presenting ITV’s Tenable (IMDb) |
| 2022 | Reprised Willow in the Disney+ series Willow (IMDb) |
| 2023 | Appeared as Wicket in the Disney+ series Ahsoka (IMDb) |
| 2024 | Samantha Davis died in March (Entertainment Daily) |
The pattern in one line: every decade since the 1980s has produced a new Warwick Davis audience — Ewok fans, Willow fans, Leprechaun fans, Potter fans, and now quiz-show viewers.
What’s confirmed and what isn’t
The verified record is thin in the places rumor loves most — money, health, and relationships. Institutions confirm the rest.
Confirmed facts
- Born 3 February 1970 in Epsom, England.
- Born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita.
- Played Wicket the Ewok in Return of the Jedi.
- Two surviving children, Annabelle and Harrison.
- Current host of ITV’s Tenable.
Verified in: BBC Ouch · BAFTA · StarWars.com · BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs · IMDb.
What’s unclear
- The exact cause of Samantha Davis’s death.
- Whether Davis is in a new relationship.
- His exact net worth; estimates vary and none are verified.
- Stroke claims; no credible public report confirms one.
- Harrison Davis’s private life; no credible incident report exists.
The pattern: the confirmed list comes from institutions — the BBC, BAFTA, Lucasfilm’s archive — while the unclear list comes from the absence of institutional sources.
What the sources say
Four statements, four different institutions — together they cover the public record without merging into one narrative.
“Davis was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare genetic skeletal condition associated with dwarfism.”
BAFTA, the British film academy
“His best-known Star Wars role is Wicket the Ewok.”
StarWars.com, Lucasfilm’s official site
“Warwick and Samantha Davis had two surviving children, Annabelle and Harrison.”
BBC Radio 4, Desert Island Discs
“Their daughter Annabelle Davis became an actress.”
Entertainment Daily, a UK showbiz outlet
Read together, they show why Davis’s public story keeps fracturing: the facts live in separate institutional silos, so anyone pulling from a single source gets an incomplete picture.
The takeaway
Warwick Davis’s career is easier to verify than his personal life, and that gap explains most of the misinformation about him. The filmography is documented across the BBC, BAFTA, Lucasfilm’s archive, and IMDb; the family record is thinner and far more private. The cause of Samantha Davis’s death has not been officially published, no second marriage has been announced, no verified net worth exists, and the stroke claim fails the most basic source test. For anyone researching Warwick Davis online, the choice is clear: verify each headline against the BBC, BAFTA, and IMDb’s credit list — or watch a half-true story about Davis repeat itself as fact.
Frequently asked questions
What condition does Warwick Davis have?
Warwick Davis was born with spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a rare genetic skeletal condition associated with dwarfism, according to BAFTA’s Fellowship profile.
What is Warwick Davis’s height?
Published height figures vary across celebrity databases. The verified record is that Davis has spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia congenita, a skeletal condition that affects growth, as documented by BAFTA.
Where was Warwick Davis born?
Warwick Davis was born in Epsom, Surrey, England, on 3 February 1970, according to BBC Ouch.
How did Warwick Davis get into acting?
Davis began his screen career as an Ewok in Star Wars: Return of the Jedi at about age 11, according to BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs and StarWars.com.
How long was Warwick Davis married?
Davis married Samantha Burge in 1991, and she died in March 2024 — roughly 33 years of marriage, according to Entertainment Daily’s family profile.
Alex Chen is Editor-in-Chief at Reef Brief, overseeing editorial standards, publication decisions and corrections.