Wenne Alton Davis, a 60-year-old actress who appeared in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” was struck and killed by a car Monday night while crossing a Midtown Manhattan street.
Davis was crossing Broadway near West 53rd Street around 9 p.m. Monday when a 2023 Cadillac XT6 making a left turn struck her, according to the NYPD. She suffered severe trauma to her head and body and was transported to Mount Sinai West Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.
The driver, a 61-year-old man, remained at the scene and has not been charged. The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad is investigating the incident.
Davis, whose legal name was Wendy Davis, worked full-time as a Customs and Border Protection officer at John F. Kennedy International Airport while pursuing acting on the side.
Neighbors said she was looking forward to retiring after years of dedicated service.
“She was working towards her retirement,” one Forest Hills neighbor told the New York Daily News. “This is a shock.”
Lucky Singh, president of the National Treasury Employees Union Chapter 153, posted a photo of Davis and wrote that she would be deeply missed.
Davis played a police officer in a 2023 episode of Amazon Prime’s Emmy-winning series “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” starring Rachel Brosnahan
She also appeared in NBC’s “Blindspot,” “New Amsterdam” and “Girls5eva,” as well as the 2011 film “Shame” and the 2004 short film “Ladies Room.”
Her manager, Jamie Harris, said that Davis moved to New York in her 20s to pursue stand-up comedy before transitioning to acting.
“I can only describe Wenne Davis as a bright light,” Harris told Entertainment Weekly. “She had a huge love for New York, for acting, for her colleagues at JFK and, most of all, her family and her circle of friends (which was also huge). She was someone for whom friendliness and kindness were not what she did but more who she was as a person.”
Just hours before the fatal accident, Davis told her neighbor Edward Reynoso, “I love you, I appreciate you.”
Another neighbor added: “She was the best, she was so nice. She was always working. I would see her walking out at 4 a.m. or coming back at 2 a.m.”
Davis was reportedly out to dinner with friends and walking to the E train to head home when the accident occurred. The crash happened less than four blocks from Radio City Music Hall and the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree.
Davis was 60 years old.