Annie Wersching, who died yesterday at the age of 45, belonged in the very best strata of the acting industry. Not quite a household name, Wersching was nevertheless a safe pair of hands who was able to drift into almost any show for an unspecified amount of time – sometimes just one episode, sometimes as a main character – and elevate it without even seeming to try.
In fact, so broad was Wersching’s filmography that almost everyone will remember her best for something different. Fans of The Vampire Diaries will know her as Lily Salvatore, the evil vampire who blew in during the later stages of the show in a flurry of stabbings, slapping and biting. She had a brief but important role in the Halle Berry sci-fi series Extant, as a woman committed to ridding the world of advanced technology.
