Mira Furlan, ‘Babylon 5’ and ‘Lost’ Actress, Dies at 65

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Mira Furlan, ‘Babylon 5’ and ‘Lost’ Actress, Dies at 65

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https://variety.com/2021/tv/news/mira-f ... 234890117/
Mira Furlan, best known for her roles as Delenn on “Babylon 5” and Danielle Rousseau on “Lost,” died on Wednesday. She was 65.

Her Twitter account announced the news on Thursday, and “Babylon 5” creator J. Michael Straczynski posted a tribute to the actress later that night.

While a cause of death has yet not been revealed, Straczynski said the cast 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 said he later got the call from “Babylon 5” co-star Peter Jurasik that Furlan’s husband, director Goran Gajić, was “bringing her home.”
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The Babylon Curse strikes again. :(
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We'll see her again, in the place where there are no Shadows. :(
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headcanon: Delenn learns this song and sings it to Sheridan on one of their wedding anniversaries.
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65 is way too young. And to die from the West Nile virus? Wow.
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McAvoy wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 3:20 am 65 is way too young. And to die from the West Nile virus? Wow.
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