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Mira Furlan, ‘Babylon 5’ and ‘Lost’ Actress, Dies at 65
Mira Furlan, finest recognized for her roles as Delenn on “Babylon 5” and Danielle Rousseau on “Lost,” died on Wednesday. She was 65.
Her Twitter account introduced the information on Thursday, and “Babylon 5” creator J. Michael Straczynski posted a tribute to the actress later that evening.
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While a explanation for loss of life has but not been revealed, Straczynski mentioned the solid and crew of “Babylon 5” had “known for some time now that Mira’s health was fading.” “We kept hoping that she would improve,” he wrote. “In a group email sent to the cast a while back, I heard that she might be improving.”
However, Straczynski mentioned he later acquired the decision from “Babylon 5” co-star Peter Jurasik that Furlan’s husband, director Goran Gajić, was “bringing her home.”
“Mira was a good and kind woman, a stunningly talented performer, and a friend to everyone in the cast and crew of ‘Babylon 5,’ and we are all devastated by the news,” he wrote. “The cast members with whom she was especially close since the show’s end will need room to process this moment, so please be gentle if they are unresponsive for a time. We have been down this road too often, and it only gets harder.”
It is an evening of nice unhappiness, for our pal and comrade had gone down the highway the place we can not attain her. But as with all issues, we are going to meet up with her in time, and I consider she can have many tales to inform us, and many new roles to share with the universe. pic.twitter.com/HyQlqyC19v
— J. Michael Straczynski (@straczynski) January 22, 2021
Furlan was born within the former Yugoslavia, the place she had a lot of stage roles and was a part of the Croatian National Theatre, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1991. She joined area opera “Babylon 5” as Delenn, the Minbari ambassador to the titular area station, in 1993, and would go on to star within the collection for its full 5 seasons. In 2004, she made her debut in ABC’s megahit “Lost” as Danielle Rousseau, a scientist who’d been shipwrecked on the present’s mysterious island 16 years earlier than the crash of the Oceanic Flight 815. She recurred all through the collection over its subsequent few seasons.
Furlan continued to behave by means of final yr, and racked up dozens of credit throughout movie and TV all through her life. Her movie credit embody Emir Kusturica’s Oscar-nominated “When Father Was Away on Business,” “Beauty of Vice,” “Three For Happiness” and “In the Jaws of Life.”
She is survived by Gajić and their son, Marko Lav Gajić.
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