Babylon five and misplaced actress Mira Furlan has died at the age of 65, her circle of relatives and management have shown. Furlan played Minbari ambassador Delenn in the Nineties sci-fi tv drama, Babylon 5, and Danielle Rousseau within the noughties mystery drama, misplaced. Her own family advised the Croatian actress died on Wednesday because of complications with the West Nile virus.

"it is with notable unhappiness that I affirm the passing of Mira Furlan" the statement read. "she changed into a girl full of kindness, power, and compassion." It persisted: "she died peacefully at her home in Los Angeles, surrounded by her family. "We are able to all continue to celebrate her life and legacy, and understand she'll always be right here with us."

West Nile virus is spread by using mosquitoes in many nations, however no longer within the united kingdom, according to the site. Babylon 5 author j Michael Straczynski described his "brilliant unhappiness", saying: "our pal and comrade had long past down the road wherein we cannot reach her."

A message on Furlan's Twitter account showed to be taken from the autobiography she turned into working on, examine: "I look at the stars. It's a clear night and the milky manner seems so near. That's where I will be going soon."

Straczynski stated he had "regarded for some time now that Mira's fitness becomes failing". He persisted: "we saved hoping that she might enhance. Mira became a terrific and kind lady, a stunningly gifted performer, and a chum to everyone within the solid and group of babylon five, and we're all devastated by way of the information."

Furlan starred in all 5 divisions of Babylon five, from 1994-1998, and then she gave start to her best son Marko lav and launched an album titled songs from films that have in no way been made. From 2004-2010, she worked a scientist stranded on a far-off island inside the hit thriller drama collection misplaced.

Born in Zagreb, the actress seemed in the movie while father changed into away on commercial enterprise, which won the coveted Palme d'Or prize at the 1985 Cannes movie festival. It additionally acquired an Oscar nomination for a first-class foreign language movie.

She emigrated to us together with her husband, director Goran magic, in 1991, at the beginning of the warfare within the former Yugoslavia. "it became completely like starting over, as though a person had taken a large eraser and erased my life," Furlan said in an interview with daily dragon online in 2012.