Annie Wersching, ‘The Last of Us’ voice actress, dies at 45



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Annie Wersching, the histrion good recognized for voicing Tess Servopoulos successful the video crippled “The Last of Us” and for playing FBI cause Renee Walker wrong the tv bid “24,” is useless, the Associated Press stated.She changed into 45.

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Ms. Wersching’s publicist informed the AP that Wersching died of crab aboriginal Sunday successful Los Angeles. It changed into present not consecutive distant cleanable what signifier of crab she had. Deadline mentioned that astir cancers was recognized successful 2020.

Ms. Wersching’s husband, Stephen Full, showed her dying successful a assertion to Deadline. “There is simply a cavernous hollow wrong the psyche of this household nowadays,” helium said. “But she near america the instrumentality to capable it. She determined astonishment wrong the simplest moment. She didn’t necessitate tune to bounce. She taught america present not to expect escapade to find you. ‘Go observe it. It’s anywhere.’ And find it we shall.”

Tributes to Ms. Wersching flooded societal media precocious Sunday. “We conscionable misplaced a beauteous creator and person. My coronary bosom is shattered,” tweeted Neil Druckmann, the writer of “The Last of Us” and co-president of the online crippled developer Naughty Dog.

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“Everyone loved Annie. Everyone,” wrote chap histrion Ever Carradine successful a confirmed GoFundMe fundraiser acceptable up for Ms. Wersching’s hubby and 3 sons.

“Annie go recognized with crab Summer of 2020,” Carradine wrote. “She’s a backstage antheral oregon pistillate with the assistance of nature, and the diagnosis made her adjacent much so. She wanted to support her boys. She desired to get higher truthful she whitethorn privation to support running. And honestly, she simply didn’t really request to talk astir it. She desired to unrecorded her lifestyles, connected her phrases, and beryllium with her ain family.”

Following her astir cancers diagnosis, Ms. Wersching continued to behave, performing arsenic Borg Queen successful “Star Trek: Picard” connected Paramount Plus and due to the fact that the serial slayer Rosalind Dyer successful “The Rookie” connected ABC. In her last Instagram enactment up successful August, she shared her enthusiasm astatine returning to that role.

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Ms. Wersching changed into calved successful St. Louis. She acted for astir decades, acting arsenic habitual and one-off characters successful dozens of tv series, including “Bosch,” “Runaways,” “The Vampire Diaries” and “Star Trek: Enterprise.”

She gave dependable and question to the antheral oregon pistillate of Tess Servopoulos wrong the fashionable 2013 PlayStation 3 rubric “The Last of Us,” which HBO lately launched arsenic a tv collection. Co-creators Druckmann and Craig Mazin stated successful a joint declaration that Episode 3, launched Sunday night, would beryllium devoted to Ms. Wersching.

Her pal Carradine described Ms. Wersching arsenic a pleased and beneficiant idiosyncratic who “lived for her family.”

In his connection to Deadline, Full said that each clip helium drove with theirsons, Freddie, Ozzie and Archie, faraway from the location they each shared, “she would outcry ‘BYE!’ until we were retired of earshot and into the sector. I tin nevertheless perceive it ringing.”

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Gene Park contributed to this document.