MIra Furlan has passed away from complications arising from the West Nile virus. She led an interesting life: well educated, and caught in the messiness of the breakup of Yugoslavia, she and her husband fled with nothing more than what they could carry. I remember her speaking about this when she was GoH at the Sci-Fi festival here in Montreal.—Cathy
Mira Furlan (7 September 1955 – 20 January 2021) was a Croatian actress and singer. Internationally, she was best known for her roles as the Minbari Ambassador Delenn in the science fiction television series Babylon 5 (1993–1998), and as Danielle Rousseau in Lost (2004–2010), and also appeared in multiple award-winning films such as When Father Was Away on Business (1985) and The Abandoned (2010).
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