Editing Alan Rickman (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:AlanRickmanDec2009.jpg|thumb|upright|Rickman at a Hudson Union Society event in 2009]]
In 1965, when he was 19, Rickman met 18-year-old [[Rima Horton]], who became his partner in the early 1970s and would later be a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] councillor on [[Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council]] (1986–2006) and an economics lecturer at [[Kingston University]] in London.<ref name="Horton">{{cite news |title=Alan Rickman weds Rima Horton nearly 50 years after they met |url=https://www.today.com/popculture/alan-rickman-weds-rima-horton-nearly-50-years-after-they-t17296 |access-date=5 May 2023 |work=Today|quote=Alan Rickman met future economist and politician Rima Horton, it was 1965 and they were just teenagers.}}</ref><ref name="guardian-death"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://living.scotsman.com/features/A-man-for-all-seasons.2796621.jp |title=A man for all seasons |work=[[The Scotsman]] |location=Edinburgh |first=Jackie |last=McGlone |date=31 July 2006 |access-date=15 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309151551/http://living.scotsman.com/features/A-man-for-all-seasons.2796621.jp |archive-date=9 March 2011|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2015, Rickman confirmed that they had married in a private ceremony in New York City in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|last=Chiu|first=Melody|url=http://www.people.com/article/alan-rickman-married-rima-horton|title=Alan Rickman and Longtime Love Rima Horton Secretly Wed 3 Years Ago|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=23 April 2015|access-date=14 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160114133827/http://www.people.com/article/alan-rickman-married-rima-horton|archive-date=14 January 2016|url-status=live}}</ref>

Rickman was the godfather of fellow actor [[Tom Burke (actor)|Tom Burke]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Amer|first=Matthew |url=http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/backstage-pass/article/item149086/my-place-tom-burke/|title=My place: Tom Burke|website=Official London Theatre|date=26 July 2012|access-date=15 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151223061037/http://www.officiallondontheatre.co.uk/news/backstage-pass/article/item149086/my-place-tom-burke/|archive-date=23 December 2015|url-status=live}}</ref> Rickman's brother Michael is a [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]] district councillor in Leicestershire.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cmis.harborough.gov.uk/cmis5/Councillors/tabid/62/ctl/ViewCMIS_Person/mid/480/id/2152/ScreenMode/Ward/Default.aspx |title=Councillor Michael Rickman |publisher=[[Harborough District Council]]}}</ref>

Rickman was an active patron of the research foundation Saving Faces<ref>{{cite web|author=Staff|url=http://www.savingfaces.co.uk/news-media/latest-news/590-alan-rickman-14-jan|title=Farewell to our wonderful patron, Alan Rickman|website=Saving Faces|date=14 January 2016|access-date=30 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124091509/http://www.savingfaces.co.uk/news-media/latest-news/590-alan-rickman-14-jan|archive-date=24 January 2017|url-status=dead}}</ref> and honorary president of the International Performers' Aid Trust, a charity that works to fight poverty amongst performing artists all over the world.<ref>{{cite web |last=Rickman |first=Alan |title=A message from the President |url=http://ipat.org.uk/trustees/a-message-from-the-president/ |url-status=dead |website=IPAT |access-date=15 January 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226092138/http://ipat.org.uk/trustees/a-message-from-the-president/ |archive-date=26 February 2016}}</ref>

When discussing politics, Rickman said he "was born a card-carrying member of the Labour Party".<ref name=Guardian14Jan2016>{{cite news|last=Shoard|first=Catherine|title=Alan Rickman, giant of British screen and stage, dies at 70|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/jan/14/alan-rickman-giant-of-british-film-and-theatre-dies-at-70| date=14 January 2016|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|access-date=14 January 2016}}</ref> His last recorded work prior to his death was for a short video to help [[Oxford University]] students raise funds and awareness of the [[refugee crisis]] for [[Save the Children]] and [[Refugee Council]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Saul |first=Heather |title=Alan Rickman was helping students raise money for refugees just weeks before his death |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alan-rickman-was-helping-students-raise-money-for-refugees-just-weeks-before-his-death-a6812821.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160115044651/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/alan-rickman-was-helping-students-raise-money-for-refugees-just-weeks-before-his-death-a6812821.html |archive-date=15 January 2016 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |website=The Independent |date=14 January 2016 |access-date=6 August 2020}}</ref> According to his diaries, Rickman declined a [[Order of the British Empire|CBE]] in 2008.<ref name="Alan Rickman's secret showbiz diaries">{{cite web |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/sep/24/alan-rickmans-secret-showbiz-diaries-harry-potter |title=Alan Rickman's secret showbiz diaries: the late actor on Harry Potter, politics and what he really thought of his co-stars |website=The Guardian |date=24 September 2022 |access-date=24 September 2022}}</ref>

Rickman was political until his last days. His last onscreen performance was with [[Helen Mirren]] in the drama ''[[Eye in the Sky (2015 film)|Eye in the Sky]]'', which he had described as "a film about the moral responsibilities governments face regarding the use of drones." 

In 2003, after reading published emails by [[Rachel Corrie]], a US activist who advocated for [[Palestinians|Palestinian]] rights and was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]], he was motivated to produce ''[[My Name Is Rachel Corrie]]''; the play was well-received and popular in London.<ref name="Norton" /><ref>{{cite news |last=Baker |first=Jeff |title=Alan Rickman on Harry Potter, Louis XIV and Alice in Wonderland |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2015/06/alan_rickman_on_harry_potter_l.html |access-date=14 January 2022 |work=The Oregonian |publisher=Advance Local Media LLC |date=26 June 2015}}</ref>