Alan Rickman leaves £4 million in his will with £100,000 going to charities supporting dramatic arts and facial reconstruction

By MailOnline Reporter

Published: 07:46 EST, 25 May 2016 | Updated: 11:32 EST, 25 May 2016

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He was best known for playing ‘baddies’ such as Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series.

But it has been revealed that the Alan Rickman left £4million in his will including legacies of £100,000 to charity.

The actor, who died of cancer aged 69 in January, left the bulk of his UK assets to his wife Rima Horton, 68, who lived with him in west London.

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Generous: It has been revealed that the Alan Rickman left £4million in his will including legacies of £100,000 to charity

But he also left £25,000 each to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Sponsored Arts for Education, the Facial Surgery Research Foundation known as Saving Faces and the International Performers Aid Trust.

Rickman, a lifelong Labour supporter, was widely involved in the latter two charities in his lifetime. He also left £25,000 each to his three nieces.

The actor shot to fame as Bruce Willis’s adversary German terrorist Hans Gruber in 1988 film Die Hard and for his BAFTA winning role as a villainous Sheriff of Nottingham in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves in 1991.

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His last gift: The actor, who died of cancer aged 69 in January, left the bulk of his UK assets to his wife Rima Horton, 68, who lived with him in west London

What a man: But he also left £25,000 each to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Sponsored Arts for Education, the Facial Surgery Research Foundation known as Saving Faces and the International Performers Aid Trust

Probate records reveal that his net estate of £4,060,033 only covered his assets in the UK.

His will which was written just three months before he died in hospital from pancreatic cancer, stated that his assets in the US and Italy were being dealt with separately.

Rickman and his wife, a former Labour councillor and economics lecturer, married privately in New York in 2012, although they had been together since 1965 when he was aged 19 and she was 18.

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company after leaving Rada and became an acclaimed stage actor before his Hollywood roles.

Family man: Rickman, a lifelong Labour supporter, was widely involved in the latter two charities in his lifetime. He also left £25,000 each to his three nieces

Rickman became known to a fresh legion of fans as the villainous Professor Severus Snape in the Harry Potter films.

He also won a Golden Globe and an Emmy for his terrifying title role in the 1995 film Rasputin and was BAFTA-nominated for his parts in Michael Collins, Sense and Sensibility and Truly Madly Deeply.

One of his last roles was as a British general in the drone warfare thriller Eye in the Sky, also starring Helen Mirren, which was released last month.

He also did voice work for the newly released film Alice Through the Looking Glass.