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Actress Annie Wersching died of cancer early Sunday morning, her publicist Craig Schneider told CNN. Wersching was 45 years old.
She was best known for playing FBI agent Renee Walker on the series 24.
Wersching’s husband, Stephen Full, released a statement to CNN:
“There is a huge hole in the soul of this family today. But she left us the tools to fill it. She found miracles in the simplest of moments. She didn’t need music to dance to. She taught us not to wait for adventure to find you. “Go find it. It is everywhere.’ And we will find it,” he wrote.
Wersching also provided the voice for Tess in the video game The Last of Us. Neil Druckmann, creative director of the new HBO Max series based on the game, The Last of Us, tweeted on the death of Wesching:
“I just found out that my dear friend Annie Wersching passed away. We just lost a wonderful artist and person. My heart is broken. Thoughts are with their loved ones.”
(CNN and HBO Max are both part of the same parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery.)
A GoFundMe was set up by Handmaid’s Tale actress Ever Carradine to support Annie’s children and husband “so they can continue to live their lives in a way that would make Annie proud.”
Wersching appeared regularly in television dramas in the intervening years and into the 2010s. In 2007, she played Amelia Joffe on the long-running ABC soap opera General Hospital. Her breakthrough came in 2008 when she portrayed FBI agent Renee Walker on the hit Fox show 24, where she starred opposite Kiefer Sutherland for the seventh and eighth seasons.
Some of Wersching’s other notable TV appearances include her role as the love interest of Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) on Amazon Prime’s 2014 series Bosch, and a recurring role as the villainous vampire Lily Salvatore on The CW’s The Vampire Diaries.
When she portrayed the Borg Queen in 2022’s “Star Trek Picard,” Wersching frequently shared photos of herself in full costume, accompanied by messages of thanks to the makeup artists and prosthetics artists who transformed her into the intergalactic villain. Wersching’s role in Star Trek Picard, which airs on Paramount+, is listed as one of the actress’ last professional credits on IMDb.
Wersching’s husband ended his statement on Sunday with a touching memory.
“As I drove our boys, the true loves of their lives, down the winding driveway and road, she yelled BYE! until we were out of earshot and out into the world. I can still hear it ringing. bye my buddy ‘I love you little family…’”