Nina Dobrev and Paul Wesley Mourn Death of Vampire Diaries Makeup Artist Essie Cha

Director Adrian Carr, who worked with Essie on his 2005 short film Blood Makes Noise, also paid tribute to the makeup artist that day.

“How does one process the loss of a vital, vivacious, loving, intellectual, kind, generous, ageless, beautiful spirit… RIP Essie,” he wrote on Facebook. “Devastated… This morning Rosemary and I learned our dear, dear friend and colleague, Essie Cha was taken while she slept. Heaven’s light brightened and Earth’s dimmed.”

Secret Harris, who worked with Essie as a crew member on The Vampire Diaries, the 2016 movie The Fundamentals of Caring and Tell Me Lies also shared her own homage to her friend and colleague.

“We lost a positively radiant soul Essie Cha last night,” Harris wrote on Facebook March 25. “She unexpectedly passed away in her sleep. She was one of the sweetest people to work with and a very talented MU artist.”