--- title: Kate Winslet Remembers 'Warm Hearted Puppy Dog' Alan Rickman description: friends from the acting community have reached out to pay tribute to the beloved British star. canonical: https://time.com/4181211/kate-winslet-remembers-warm-hearted-puppy-dog-alan-rickman/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-14T19:30:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:28:50.028Z og:title: Kate Winslet Remembers 'Warm Hearted Puppy Dog' Alan Rickman og:description: "My life was enriched by knowing him" og:url: https://time.com/4181211/kate-winslet-remembers-warm-hearted-puppy-dog-alan-rickman/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Kate Winslet Remembers 'Warm Hearted Puppy Dog' Alan Rickman twitter:description: "My life was enriched by knowing him" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Kate Winslet Remembers 'Warm Hearted Puppy Dog' Alan Rickman  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 14, 2016 7:30 PM UTC  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Jan 14, 2016 7:30 PM UTC Following Thursday’s news that actor Alan Rickman died of cancer at the age of 69, [friends from the acting community](http://time.com/4180432/alan-rickman-death-harry-potter-cast-reactions/) have reached out to pay tribute to the beloved British star. One of these peers was Kate Winslet, who first starred alongside Rickman in Ang Lee’s 1995 adaptation of Jane Austen’s _Sense and Sensibility_. --- > “” --- **Read More:** [Read Alan Rickman’s Touching Goodbye Letter to _Harry Potter_](http://time.com/4180663/alan-rickman-goodbye-to-harry-potter/) The pair worked together for the last time in 2014’s _A Litte Chaos_, a French period drama that Rickman co-wrote, directed and starred in. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4181211/kate-winslet-remembers-warm-hearted-puppy-dog-alan-rickman/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4181211/kate-winslet-remembers-warm-hearted-puppy-dog-alan-rickman/"},"headline":"Kate Winslet Remembers 'Warm Hearted Puppy Dog' Alan Rickman","datePublished":"2016-01-14T19:30:19.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:28:50.028Z","description":"\"My life was enriched by knowing him\"","url":"https://time.com/4181211/kate-winslet-remembers-warm-hearted-puppy-dog-alan-rickman/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","celebrities","Kate Winslet","Actors"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4181211/kate-winslet-remembers-warm-hearted-puppy-dog-alan-rickman/","name":"Kate Winslet Remembers 'Warm Hearted Puppy Dog' Alan Rickman"}}]}] ```