Wenne Alton Davis died at 60 after being hit by a car in New York City in December 2025.

Driver charged in car crash that killed *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel *actor Wenne Alton Davis

Wenne Alton Davis died at 60 after being hit by a car in New York City in December 2025.

By Sharareh Drury

March 19, 2026 2:48 p.m. ET

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Wenne Alton Davis (left) and Rachel Brosnahan on 'The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel'. Credit:

The driver who is responsible for a hit-and-run that allegedly killed *The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel* actor Wenne Alton Davis has been arrested and charged.

Davis died on Dec. 8, 2025, at 60 after being hit by a car in Midtown Manhattan. The actor had been out to dinner with friends. Davis sustained severe trauma to the head and body and was transported to Mount Sinai West, where she died from her injuries.

MD Abdul Shomuz was arrested on Monday, March 16, and charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian, the NYPD confirmed to *.*

Wenne Alton Davis.

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"I can only describe Wenne Davis as a bright light," Davis' agent Jamie Harris told EW following the news of her death. "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."

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Harris added that "many of her friends in the past few days ... spoke of her generous spirit and love of life," and that she will be greatly missed "by all who knew and loved her."

"We all agree that she had much more to do in her career as an actor and her life. Literally, no one I've spoken to can believe that she's no longer with us," Davis said.

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'Marvelous Mrs. Maisel' actor Wenne Alton Davis dies at 60 after being hit by car

Davis (born Wendy Davis) appeared on season 5 of the Prime Video series* The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel* in one episode in 2023, playing a police officer opposite Rachel Brosnahan's titular lead character. This was Davis' most recent onscreen role.

She appeared on TV in episodes of *Girls5eva*, *New Amsterdam*, *Blindspot*, and* American Odyssey.* She also appeared in the 2014 TV movie *The Normal Heart *and the 2011 drama *Shame*.**

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