Actress Mira Furlan, best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn on “Babylon 5” and the mysterious French woman Danielle Rousseau on “Lost,” died on Wednesday. She was 65.
Her Twitter account announced the news with “Babylon 5” creator J. Michael Straczynski posting a tribute to the actress later that night. The cause of death has not been revealed, but Straczynski said he and her co-stars had known for some time that her health was fading.
Born in the former Yugoslavia, the actress emigrated to the U.S. in 1991 and took on what became the female lead role in “Babylon 5” in 1993. She played the role across the show’s five seasons.
The series was one of the first to bring heavy serialisation to genre television and unlike many who came after, much of it was determined before the show began. As a result, it could plot out its story and character arcs – some considered quite prescient in recent years – carefully and strategically across the show’s full run. The entire series will be coming to HBO Max in full from this Tuesday (26th) with the new scans of the original 4:3 broadcast masters that recently showed up on iTunes.
Furlan then joined “Lost” in the first season in a recurring role, playing a scientist who had been shipwrecked on the mysterious island sixteen years before the crash. She also continued to act through last year, with dozens of credits across film and TV including the Oscar-nominated “When Father Was Away on Business”.
Source: Twitter
