Actor Annie Wersching, best known for playing FBI agent Renee Walker in the series 24 and providing the voice for Tess in the video game The Last of Us, has died. She was 45.
Wersching passed away on Sunday in Los Angeles following a battle with cancer, her publicist said.
The type of cancer was not specified.
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“We just lost a beautiful artist and human being. My heart is shattered. Thoughts are with her loved ones,” Neil Druckmann, who created The Last of Us, wrote on Twitter.
“We love you Annie Wersching. You will be deeply missed,” actor Abigail Spencer, who appeared with Wersching on the sci-fi series Timeless, wrote on Twitter.
Born and raised in St Louis, Missouri, Wersching appeared on dozens of television shows over the course of her two-decade career.
Her first credit was in Star Trek: Enterprise, and she would go on to have recurring roles in the seventh and eighth seasons of 24, Bosch, The Vampire Diaries, Marvel’s Runaways, The Rookie and, most recently, the second season of Star Trek: Picard as the Borg Queen.
Wershing was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, according to Deadline, and continued working.
She is survived by her husband, actor Stephen Full, and three sons. A GoFundMe page was set up Sunday to support the family.
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