Ms. Wersching’s husband, Stephen Full, confirmed her loss of life in an announcement to Deadline. “There’s a cavernous gap within the soul of this household as we speak,” he stated. “However she left us the instruments to fill it. She discovered surprise within the easiest second. She didn’t require music to bop. She taught us to not look ahead to journey to search out you. ‘Go discover it. It’s in every single place.’ And discover it we will.”
Tributes to Ms. Wersching flooded social media late Sunday. “We simply misplaced a good looking artist and human being. My coronary heart is shattered,” tweeted Neil Druckmann, the creator of “The Final of Us” and co-president of the online game developer Naughty Canine.
“Everybody cherished Annie. Everybody,” wrote fellow actress Ever Carradine in a verified GoFundMe fundraiser arrange for Ms. Wersching’s husband and three sons.
“Annie was identified with most cancers Summer season of 2020,” Carradine wrote. “She’s a non-public individual by nature, and the prognosis made her much more so. She wished to guard her boys. She wished to get higher so she might proceed working. And actually, she simply didn’t actually need to discuss it. She wished to stay her life, on her phrases, and be along with her household.”
Following her most cancers prognosis, Ms. Wersching continued to behave, showing as Borg Queen in “Star Trek: Picard” on Paramount Plus and because the serial killer Rosalind Dyer in “The Rookie” on ABC. In her final Instagram publish in August, she shared her enthusiasm at returning to that position.
Ms. Wersching was born in St. Louis. She acted for about twenty years, showing as recurring and one-off characters in dozens of tv collection, together with “Bosch,” “Runaways,” “The Vampire Diaries” and “Star Trek: Enterprise.”
She gave voice and movement to the character of Tess Servopoulos within the widespread 2013 PlayStation 3 title “The Final of Us,” which HBO not too long ago launched as a tv collection. Co-creators Druckmann and Craig Mazin stated in a joint assertion that Episode 3, launched Sunday evening, could be devoted to Ms. Wersching.
Her pal Carradine described Ms. Wersching as a joyful and beneficiant one that “lived for her household.”
In his assertion to Deadline, Full stated that each time he drove with their sons, Freddie, Ozzie and Archie, away from the house all of them shared, “she would yell ‘BYE!’ till we had been out of earshot and into the world. I can nonetheless hear it ringing.”
Gene Park contributed to this report.