{"id":2194979,"date":"2025-12-11T14:12:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2194979"},"modified":"2025-12-11T14:12:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T14:12:09","slug":"marvelous-mrs-maisel-star-wenne-alton-davis-struck-killed-by-car-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/marvelous-mrs-maisel-star-wenne-alton-davis-struck-killed-by-car-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Marvelous Mrs. Maisel&#8217; star Wenne Alton Davis struck, killed by car in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7YEZYOEDYFFBDDWMAX5VQGJNOA\">Wenne Alton Davis, an actress known for her roles in \u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u201d and \u201cNew Amsterdam,\u201d died Monday after she was struck by a car. She was 60.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ZHJEKSNZV5DBBPSYUEARDAJ7HU\">Davis was hit by an SUV at the intersection of West 53rd Street and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan just before 9 p.m. on Dec. 8, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/10\/us\/wenne-alton-davis-dead.html#:~:text=Wenne%20Alton%20Davis%2C%20an%20actor,She%20was%2060.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/12\/10\/us\/wenne-alton-davis-dead.html#:~:text=Wenne%20Alton%20Davis%2C%20an%20actor,She%20was%2060.\">The New York Times reported<\/a>. She was brought to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"I2DLARSKONDTXGWUVXONSMTDBM\">Davis\u2019s agent, Jamie Harris, also confirmed to NYT that she died in the crash. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"N4LY3PAXSVFBTJADLNDAFI3PXQ\">Born Wendy Davis on Oct. 18, 1965, in Durham, North Carolina, the actress moved to New York in her late 20s. She started out as a stand-up comedian before switching to acting. Harris said Davis worked full time as a customs agent at John F. Kennedy International Airport but took acting jobs on the side. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"TGI4GQNGYBGLHBW4GX6L5BUT2I\">\u201cShe 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),\u201d he told the NYT. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"VKZHKDWNHJCCPD4TUWLYLFRD4I\">Davis\u2019 most recent role was in 2023 as a police officer in \u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"XJOQM7SRHVHBHEPZRRDWO44NHQ\">Other shows she appeared in were \u201cBlindspot,\u201d \u201cRescue Me,\u201d and \u201cAmerican Odyssey.\u201d She also appeared in the 2011 film \u201cShame,\u201d starring Michael Fassbender and Carey Mulligan.<\/p>\n<section class=\"Stories-By-Section-Tag-module_wrapper__69Ed7 Stories-By-Section-Tag-module_masslive__fsdaU\" data-gaid=\"_R_1n1b8m_\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.masslive.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wenne Alton Davis, an actress known for her roles in \u201cThe Marvelous Mrs. Maisel\u201d and \u201cNew Amsterdam,\u201d died Monday after she was struck by a car. She was 60. Davis was hit by an SUV at the intersection of West 53rd Street and Broadway in Midtown Manhattan just before 9 p.m. on Dec. 8, The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2194979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2194979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2194980,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2194979\/revisions\/2194980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2194979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2194979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2194979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}