Annie Wersching is lifeless at age 45. The Vampire Diaries alum had been privately battling most cancers since 2020.
Her husband, Stephen Full, shared an announcement after his spouse’s demise. “There’s a cavernous gap within the soul of this household as we speak. However she left us the instruments to fill it. She discovered marvel within the easiest second. She didn’t require music to bop. She taught us to not anticipate journey to search out you. ‘Go discover it. It’s in all places.’ And discover it we will,” he mentioned through Deadline. “As I drove our boys, the true loves of her life, down the winding driveway and road, she would yell BYE! till we had been out of earshot and into the world. I can nonetheless hear it ringing. Bye my Buddie. ‘I really like you little household.’”
Actress Ever Carradine was among the many first to pay tribute her former Marvel’s Runaways costar. “We misplaced a ray of sunshine this morning,” Carradine, 48, wrote through Instagram on Sunday, January 29. “I ❤️ you @anniewersching and hope you’re dancing along with your beloved mama whereas watching over your candy boys. I’m so fortunate to have been your buddy.”
Annie Wersching and household. Annie Lesser/imageSPACE/Shutterstock
The Handmaid’s Story star additionally began a GoFundMe marketing campaign for Wersching’s husband Steve and three sons: Freddie, 12, Ozzie, 9, and Archie, 4.
Within the description, Carradine revealed that the late Missouri native saved her medical analysis quiet. “Annie was recognized with most cancers Summer time of 2020,” she defined. “She’s a personal particular person by nature, and the analysis made her much more so. She wished to guard her boys. She wished to get higher so she might proceed working. And truthfully, she simply didn’t actually wish to discuss it. She wished to stay her life, on her phrases, and be along with her household.”
The fund was arrange with a aim of $200,000 to assist the household with medical payments, funeral bills and extra. “Everybody cherished Annie. Everybody. However nonetheless a lot we cherished her, she cherished her boys extra. Let’s assist care for them for her. ❤️,” Carradine wrote.
Inside just some hours, the marketing campaign collected over $45,000 from donors. Actors Jonathan Frakes, Lea Thompson and Jeri Ryan had been among the many first to donate alongside Supernatural creator Eric Kripke and The Final of Us co-creator Craig Mazin.
“Heartbreaking. Annie was so variety, sensible, lively,” Kripke famous through Twitter on Sunday. “She was my secret weapon, I solid her in each present I made, was searching for her half in #TheBoys. I’ll all the time remorse not working along with her yet another time. Like to her household, assist in case you can.”
Kripke solid her on Supernatural, The Boys, Timeless and Revolution. Timeless alum Abigail Spencer additionally mourned her former costar. “We love you #AnnieWersching. You may be deeply missed. 💔,” the actress tweeted on Sunday. “Please #Timeless neighborhood donate no matter you possibly can to help Annie’s husband Steve & their boys as they transition by means of this very painful time.”
TV followers will acknowledge Wersching from quite a lot of different hit TV reveals. She starred on Normal Hospital as Amelia Joffe in 2007 and appeared on seasons 7 and eight of the drama 24 as Renee Walker. Within the sixth and seventh seasons of The Vampire Diaries, she performed Lily Salvatore, the long-lost mom of Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder).
“So unhappy to listen to this,” Vampire Diaries govt producer Julie Plec shared through Twitter on Sunday. “I grew to become a fan from 24 and was fortunate to have the ability to have Annie play mama to 2 of the most popular vamps on the town. This go fund me is for her household. RIP Annie, you fantastic soul.”
Annie Wersching and Kiefer Sutherland in ’24.’ Fox-Television/Kobal/Shutterstock
After her go to to Mystic Falls, she performed cult chief Leslie for 3 seasons of Marvel’s Runaways and stirred up drama on The Rookie as serial killer Rosalind Dyer from 2019 to 2022.
The Rookie present runner Alexi Hawley mourned Wersching’s demise through Twitter, writing: “Such unhappy information. Annie was a part of The Rookie household. A particular particular person and true expertise who introduced pleasure to our set and elevated each scene she was in. Please donate in case you are ready.”
Wersching began her profession on display screen with a gig on Star Trek: Enterprise in 2002. Her 2022 arc because the Borg Queen on Star Trek Picard was amongst her remaining roles earlier than her demise.
