Sunday, January 29, 2023

Annie Wersching obit

Annie Wersching, Actress in ‘Bosch,’ ‘24,’ ‘Runaways,’ Dies at 45

Wersching, who was also known for her voicework on the videogame 'The Last of Us' and more recently as the Borg Queen on 'Star Trek: Picard,' was diagnosed with cancer in 2020.

 

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Annie Wersching, an actress known for her roles in TV dramas Bosch and 24, as well as her portrayal of Leslie Dean, the mother of alien superhero Karolina on Marvel’s Runaways, has died. She was 45.

Wersching died from cancer on Sunday morning in Los Angeles, a rep for the actress told The Hollywood Reporter. In a statement, her husband Stephen Full remembered his wife and the mother of their three children.

“There is a cavernous hole in the soul of this family today. But she left us the tools to fill it,” he said. “She found wonder in the simplest moment. She didn’t require music to dance. She taught us not to wait for adventure to find you. ‘Go find it. It’s everywhere.’ And find it we shall.”

“As I drove our boys, the true loves of her life, down the winding driveway and street, she would yell BYE! until we were out of earshot and into the world,” he continued. “I can still hear it ringing. Bye my Buddie. ‘I love you little family…'”

Wersching, who was diagnosed with cancer in 2020, most recently had a series of recurring roles on Star Trek: Picard, where she played the Borg Queen, as well as The Rookie, where she appeared as Rosalind Dyer, a murderer who escapes prison.

Before that, she had major roles in multiple seasons of 24, Bosch and Marvel’s Runaways. On 24, Wersching portrayed Renee Walker, a Washington Field Office FBI special agent, who teams with Kiefer Sutherland’s Jack Bauer through the Day 7 and Day 8 arcs, which play out during the series’ seventh and eighth seasons. (Read tributes from her co-stars.)

On Bosch, the actress portrayed Julia Brasher, a rookie cop in the LAPD’s Hollywood Division, whose path crosses with Harry Bosch professionally and personally across the first two seasons of the series, before she returned for season 7 in 2021. Between 2019 and 2021, Wersching starred in Marvel’s Runaways and for more than 30 episodes across three seasons of the Hulu series portrayed the mother of half-alien Karolina, in a villain-turned-ally role that initially pitted Leslie Dean against her daughter’s teen superhero group of friends.

Her longest-running role would be as television producer Amelia Joffe in 80 episodes of the daytime soap General Hospital, along with multi-episode arcs on The CW’s The Vampire Diaries — as the mother of Paul Wesley and Ian Somerholder’s leading vampires, Stefan and Damon — and NBC’s Timeless, as Emma Whitmore, a time traveler and pilot who fakes her death and become stranded in time.

Across her career, she would appear in a number of guest roles on popular shows like Angel, Boston Legal, Charmed, Cold Case, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Frasier, Hawaii Five-0, NCIS, Rizzoli and Isles and Supernatural.

In 2013, she would reunite in a one-off episode with several 24 co-stars, including Sutherland, for an episode of his FOX series Touch. She also reteamed with Supernatural showrunner Eric Kripke for a two-episode arc on his NBC series Revolution, as Billy Burke’s character’s former love interest.

While Wersching worked mostly in TV, she did voice work for video games, most recently in Bioware’s 2019 online action RPG Anthem. However, she is most notably known for her voice work in The Last of Us as Tess, a survivor of the apocalypse and smuggling partner to the Naughty Dog game’s leading character Joel Miller.

Born and raised in St. Louis, Wersching grew up performing in musical theater and competitive Irish dance before going to Millikin University, where she graduated in 1999 with a BFA in musical theatre. She resided in Chicago before touring with Anything Goes and A Christmas Carol, eventually performing in prominent theaters and festivals, including Chicago’s Victory Gardens, Marriott Lincolnshire and the Utah Shakespearean Festival.

She moved to Los Angeles in 2001, where she continued her run as a theater actress in the revival of Do I Hear A Waltz? at the Pasadena Playhouse before landing her first TV appearance on Star Trek: Enterprise.

A GoFundMe has been set up in her honor to support her family and address funeral expenses.

Wersching is survived by her husband, Full, and three children Freddie, Ozzie, and Archie.

Filmography

Film

Year       Title       Role

2003      Bruce Almighty Woman at Party

2010      Below the Beltway           Darcy

Television

Year       Title       Role       Notes

2002      Star Trek: Enterprise       Liana     Episode: "Oasis"

2002      Birds of Prey       Lynne Emerson 1 episode

2003      Frasier Esthetician          1 episode

2003      Angel     Margaret             Episode: "Shiny Happy People"

2004      Charmed              Demonatrix Two               1 episode

2005      Out of Practice Conner 1 episode

2005      Killer Instinct      Cecilia Johnson 1 episode

2005      E-Ring   Lieutenant          1 episode

2006      Cold Case             Libby Bradley (1979)       1 episode

2006      Boston Legal       Ellen Tanner       1 episode

2007      Supernatural      Susan Thompson              1 episode

2007      General Hospital               Amelia Joffe       Recurring role

2007      Journeyman       Diana Bloom       1 episode

2009–2010          24           Renee Walker    Main cast (seasons 7–8)

2010      CSI: Crime Scene Investigation    Priscilla Prescott               1 episode

2010      NCIS       Gail Walsh           1 episode

2011      Partners               Jesse-Lynn Mancini         Television film

2011      No Ordinary Family         Michelle Cotton                1 episode

2011      Rizzoli & Isles     Nicole Mateo     1 episode

2011      Hawaii Five-0     Samantha Martell            1 episode

2012      Harry's Law         Patricia Stanhope             1 episode

2012      Blue-Eyed Butcher           Allie       Television film

2013      The Surrogate    Allison Kelly        Television film

2013      Body of Proof     Yvonne Kurtz      1 episode

2013      Dallas    Alison Jones       4 episodes

2013      Touch    Kate Gordon       1 episode

2013      Revolution          Emma   2 episodes

2013;

2015      Castle    Kelly Nieman      3 episodes

2014      Intelligence         Kate Anderson 1 episode

2014–2021          Bosch    Julia Brasher       Main cast (season 1); guest star (seasons 2 & 7)

2014      Blue Bloods         Joyce Carpenter                Episode: "Insult to Injury"

2014      Extant   Femi Dodd          Recurring role

2015–2016          The Vampire Diaries        Lily Salvatore      Recurring role

2016      Code Black          Katie Miller         1 episode

2016      The Catch            Karen Singh        1 episode

2016      Major Crimes     Liz Soto                 1 episode

2017      The Other Mother           Jackie McClain   Television film

2017–2018          Timeless               Emma Whitmore              Recurring role

2017      Doubt    Bonnie Harris     1 episode

2017–2019          Runaways            Leslie Dean         Main cast

2018      Hell's Kitchen     Herself (guest diner)       1 episode

2019–2022          The Rookie          Rosalind Dyer     Recurring role (seasons 2–3, 5)

2022      Star Trek: Picard               Borg Queen        Recurring role (season 2)

Video games

Year       Title       Role       Notes

2013      The Last of Us    Tess       Voice and performance capture

2019      Anthem                Tassyn   Voice and performance capture

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