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Actress Annie Wersching handed away of most cancers early Sunday morning, her publicist, Craig Schneider advised CNN. Wersching was 45 years previous.
She was finest recognized for enjoying FBI agent Renee Walker within the sequence “24.”
Wersching’s husband, Stephen Full, launched an announcement to CNN:
“There’s a cavernous gap within the soul of this household as we speak. However she left us the instruments to fill it. She discovered marvel within the easiest second. She didn’t require music to bop. She taught us to not look ahead to journey to seek out you. ‘Go discover it. It’s in every single place.’ And discover it we will,” he wrote.
Wersching additionally supplied the voice for Tess in “The Final of Us” online game. Neil Druckmann, the artistic director of latest HBO Max sequence “The Final of Us” primarily based on the sport, tweeted on Wesching’s passing:
“Simply came upon my pricey buddy, Annie Wersching, handed away. We simply misplaced a wonderful artist and human being. My coronary heart is shattered. Ideas are along with her family members.”
(CNN and HBO Max are each a part of the identical mother or father firm, Warner Bros. Discovery.)
A GoFundMe was arrange by “Handmaid’s Story” actress Ever Carradine in help of Annie’s youngsters and husband “to allow them to proceed to stay life in a approach that they know would make Annie proud.”
Wersching often appeared in tv dramas all through the aughts and into the 2010s. In 2007, she performed Amelia Joffe on the long-running ABC cleaning soap “Common Hospital.” Her breakout position got here in 2008 when she portrayed FBI agent Renee Walker on the hit Fox present “24,” starring alongside Kiefer Sutherland all through the seventh and eighth seasons.
A few of Wersching’s different notable TV credit embrace her position because the love curiosity of Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) on Amazon Prime’s 2014 sequence “Bosch” and a recurring position because the villainous vampire Lily Salvatore on the CW’s “The Vampire Diaries.”
Portraying the Borg Queen in “Star Trek Picard” in 2022, Wersching regularly shared images of herself from set in full costume accompanied by messages of gratitude for the make-up and prosthetics artists that remodeled her into the intergalactic villain. Wersching’s position in “Star Trek Picard,” which airs on Paramount+, is listed as one of many actress’s final skilled credit on IMDb.
Wersching’s husband concluded his assertion with a touching reminiscence on Sunday.
“As I drove our boys, the true loves of her life, down the winding driveway and avenue, she would yell BYE! till we had been out of earshot and into the world. I can nonetheless hear it ringing. Bye my Buddie. ‘I like you little household…’”
