Rima Horton Bio, Family, Career, Husband, Net Worth, Measurements

Rima Horton is an English former Labour Party councilor on the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council from 1986 to 2006. She further has worked as a writer and became a contributor to The Elgar Companion to Radical Political Economy in 1994. Additionally, she also worked as a senior lecturer at Kingston University.

Furthermore, she is also recognized as the wife of the late actor, Alan Rickman. He is best known for portraying Hans Gruber in the 1988 film Die Hard and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter franchise. The duo was together for nearly 50 years until the death of Alan on 14 January 2016 at the age of 69. Let us scroll over to know more information on the actor’s wife then keep on scrolling.

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Caption: Rima and her late husband Alan.
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Rima Horton: Bio, Family, & Career

The former political personality was born on 31 January 1947 as Rima Elizabeth Horton in Bayswater, London, the United Kingdom into a working-class family. She is the third of four children of the parents of Elice Irene (née Frame, 1906–1984) and Wilfred Stewart Horton (1905–2003). She has three siblings but there is no information about them. Further, she has a nationality of British and belongs to native white ethnicity.

Regarding her education, she attended the co-Ed private St. Vincent’s primary school and City of London School for Girls. After that, she joined the University of Southampton. At the age of 15, she had performed in theatre at school and joined several amateur groups including the Brook Drama Club with whom she went to Paris in 1962.

She won the Most Promising Youngster Award at the Southhall Music & Drama Festival at the age of 18. She ventured into her career as a politician and spokesperson for different organizations and parties. In 1986, she served as a Chief Whip after she won the election as a Labour Party councilor on the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council. After fighting for a Labor candidate for Parliament twice, both times, she lost to the Conservative candidate.

However, she then started to work as a senior economics lecturer at Kingston University in London, retiring in 2012. She later served on the board of The Making Place in 2002 and stepped down from the position in 2005. Also, she sited on the board of trustees of the Gate Theatre in Notting Hill. Besides, she emerged as a writer and in 1994, she became a contributor to The Elgar Companion to Radical Political Economy.

Rima Horton: Personal Life & Husband

As we have mentioned earlier, she was married to the actor Alan Rickman. The duo first met in an amateur theatre group at Chelsea College of Arts in 1965. At the time, she was 18 while Alan was 19. After twelve years of dating, they moved in together and later married in 2012.

However, they publicized their relationship in 2015 and were together until Rickman’s death in January 2016. The actor died in London at the age of 69 on 14 January 2016 and had suffered terminal cancer as well as a minor stroke in August 2015. Furthermore, the pair didn’t produce any children from their marriage.

Caption: Rima and her late actor-husband Alan Rickman.
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Rima Horton: Net Worth & Social Media Profiles

The English politician makes a good income from her career. Though she has not provided exact information on her earnings, she surely maintains an average amount from her career as a writer as well. Therefore, she has an estimated net worth of above $100 thousand. Her husband had an estimated net worth of around $16 million at the time of his death.

She has an unverified Instagram account @rimahorton with 600 followers. Apart from this, she is not available on different social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook.

Rima Horton: Body Measurements

The writer has an average body type that stands to a height of 5 feet 5 inches or 1.65 meters. No information on her body measurements of chest or waist. She further has brown hair color with dark brown eyes color.