Alan Rickman, who died on 14 January 2016, was one of last year’s more shocking celebrity losses. The star of Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually and the Harry Potter movies was just 69 years old, and had kept his terminal pancreatic cancer diagnosis private from all but his closest friends and family.

As the first anniversary of Rickman’s death approaches, one of his former co-stars has shared a moving story about how she remembers Rickman.

Kate Winslet appeared alongside Rickman in the 1995 movie adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, as well as 2014’s A Little Chaos. In an article for Entertainment Weekly, the actor wrote that Rickman “was always a great big softy”, adding: “If there was one word I could use to really describe Al, it would be kind. He was so kind.”

Kate Winslet remembers how Alan Rickman selflessly spent his Harry Potter money