Wenne Alton Davis, an actor who played a range of television roles including in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” died after being hit by a car in Manhattan late on Monday, the police and an agent said. She was 60 years old.
The police said on Wednesday that an S.U.V. traveling westbound on West 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan made a left turn onto Broadway and struck a pedestrian just before 9 p.m. on Monday. The police said she was pronounced dead at the hospital.
Jamie Harris, Ms. Davis’s agent at Clear Talent Group, confirmed that she was killed in the crash.
Wendy Davis was born on Oct. 18, 1965, in Durham, N.C., and used the name Wenne Alton Davis in acting roles, Mr. Harris said.
She lived in Forest Hills, Queens. Ms. Davis came to New York in her late 20s, he said, and pursued stand-up comedy before turning to acting, he said. While working as an actor, she also supported herself in a security job at John F. Kennedy International Airport, he said.
“She had a huge love for New York, for acting, for her colleagues at J.F.K. and, most of all, her family and her circle of friends (which was also huge),” he said in a statement.
Ms. Davis played a police officer in one episode of the comedy series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” in 2023. She also appeared as a driver in “Blindspot,” a drama series, in 2019, and had roles in “New Amsterdam” the same year and in “The Normal Heart” in 2014.
In 2022, she was cast as a carpenter in “Girls5eva” and appeared in two episodes of “Rescue Me” in 2009, as well as other roles, according to her IMDB profile.
Maia Coleman contributed reporting.
Christine Hauser is a Times reporter who writes breaking news stories, features and explainers.
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