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Annie Wersching, the histrion champion known for voicing Tess Servopoulos successful the video crippled “The Last of Us” and for playing FBI cause Renee Walker successful the tv bid “24,” is dead, the Associated Press reported. She was 45.
Ms. Wersching’s publicist told the AP that Wersching died of crab aboriginal Sunday successful Los Angeles. It was not instantly wide what benignant of crab she had. Deadline reported that crab was diagnosed successful 2020.
Ms. Wersching’s husband, Stephen Full, confirmed her decease successful a connection to Deadline. “There is simply a cavernous spread successful the psyche of this household today,” helium said. “But she near america the tools to capable it. She recovered wonderment successful the simplest moment. She didn’t necessitate euphony to dance. She taught america not to hold for escapade to find you. ‘Go find it. It’s everywhere.’ And find it we shall.”
Tributes to Ms. Wersching flooded societal media precocious Sunday. “We conscionable mislaid a beauteous creator and quality being. My bosom is shattered,” tweeted Neil Druckmann, the creator of “The Last of Us” and co-president of the video crippled developer Naughty Dog.
“Everyone loved Annie. Everyone,” wrote chap histrion Ever Carradine successful a verified GoFundMe fundraiser acceptable up for Ms. Wersching’s hubby and 3 sons.
“Annie was diagnosed with crab Summer of 2020,” Carradine wrote. “She’s a backstage idiosyncratic by nature, and the diagnosis made her adjacent much so. She wanted to support her boys. She wanted to get amended truthful she could proceed working. And honestly, she conscionable didn’t truly privation to speech astir it. She wanted to unrecorded her life, connected her terms, and beryllium with her family.”
Following her crab diagnosis, Ms. Wersching continued to act, appearing arsenic Borg Queen successful “Star Trek: Picard” connected Paramount Plus and arsenic the serial slayer Rosalind Dyer successful “The Rookie” connected ABC. In her past Instagram station successful August, she shared her enthusiasm astatine returning to that role.
Ms. Wersching was calved successful St. Louis. She acted for astir 2 decades, appearing arsenic recurring 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 quality of Tess Servopoulos successful the fashionable 2013 PlayStation 3 rubric “The Last of Us,” which HBO precocious released arsenic a tv series. Co-creators Druckmann and Craig Mazin said successful a joint statement that Episode 3, released Sunday night, would beryllium dedicated to Ms. Wersching.
Her person Carradine described Ms. Wersching arsenic a joyful and generous idiosyncratic who “lived for her family.”
In his connection to Deadline, Full said that whenever helium drove with their sons, Freddie, Ozzie and Archie, distant from the location they each shared, “she would outcry ‘BYE!’ until we were retired of earshot and into the world. I tin inactive perceive it ringing.”
Gene Park contributed to this report.
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