Rima Elizabeth Horton (born 31 January 1947)[1] is a retired English academic and former Labour Party politician.

At 18, she won the Most Promising Youngster Award at the Southall Music & Drama Festival, where young Alan Rickman acted beside her.

[6][7] Horton won election as a Labour Party councillor on the Kensington and Chelsea London Borough Council in 1986,[4] serving as its Chief Whip and a spokesperson on education during her tenure.

She cited "much recent work" suggesting that health status and mortality rates in developed countries "actually depends on the distribution of income".

[10] Horton met aspiring actor Alan Rickman in 1965,[11] when they both found themselves in an amateur theatre group at Chelsea College of Arts[12] he was attending.