ANNIE WERSCHING AGE: 38 HOMETOWN: ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI TWITTER: @WERSCHING
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Annie Wersching, best known for playing FBI Special Agent Renee Walker in two seasons of the fast-paced FOX smash 24, is now dividing her time between Atlanta, where she stars as Lily Salvatore in The CW’s hit The Vampire Diaries, and Los Angeles, where she has a recurring role in the Amazon Prime crime show Bosch. Wersching spent the summer exploring Atlanta with her family, including husband Stephen Full and sons Freddie, five, and Ozzie, two. But now Wersching and Ozzie are camped in Atlanta while Freddie and Full have returned to Los Angeles for the start of kindergarten. “We decided that we would spend no longer than two weeks apart without the baby and I flying back or them flying here,” she says of the divide-and-conquer approach to keeping her career afloat while giving their kids a measure of stability and a home base. Wersching says she’s having a ball on the popular blood-thirsty drama, where she plays mom to vampire brothers Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder), and has begun shooting the next season—Wersching’s second and the series’ seventh. “We get along great, they’re such great guys,” she says of Wesley and Somerhalder. And while both 24 and Vampire Diaries offered plenty of thrills and suspense, Wersching says she thinks the appeal of Vampire Diaries has more to do with the supernatural than with the actual bloody bites. “It’s even more of an escape from your own life because it’s so far into fantasy. You can really give over to it from your actual life, where there aren’t these creatures,” she says. “Everything is so heightened, it’s so life or death, so it makes the scenarios you’re in so intense.” Wersching says visiting Savannah is on the agenda when her family is together again and has a little time off. Between filming series on two different coasts, there’s no telling when that might be.
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She stars opposite Titus Welliver in Amazon’s adaptation of Michael Connelly’s Harry Bosch crime novels, Bosch.
Wersching stars as Lily Salvatore in The CW’s hit The Vampire Diaries.
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"The Last of Us" video game features Annie Wersching's voice in the role of Tess, a survivor in a post-apocolyptic environment.