‘NCIS: Los Angeles’ Actress Rach

Emotional tributes are flooding the internet.
Two beloved TV icons — from opposite sides of the world — are suddenly gone.
Fans are stunned, co‑stars shattered, families speaking through tears as final posts and quiet clues from their last days are uncovered. What really happened in those final weeks?

The loss of Australian actress Rachael Carpani at just 45 has left a raw ache across two continents. Her family’s statement, shared by her sister Georgia, spoke of an “unexpected and peaceful” passing after a long battle with chronic illness, but it was the outpouring beneath her old Instagram posts that revealed the depth of the shock. Fans remembered the girl from Drover’s Run, the fierce Claudia of Summer Bay, the woman who could joke from a hospital bed after emergency surgery and still thank the “amazing nurses” who patched her back together. Co‑stars like Matt Passmore and Bridie Carter wrote as if a family member had been torn away, calling her their “baby,” their “beautiful girl,” insisting the order of life itself now felt wrong.

Days later, grief deepened with the death of Anthony Geary, the legendary Luke Spencer of “General Hospital.” In Amsterdam, his husband Claudio Gama described three quiet decades of shared life suddenly ending after complications from a routine operation. His calm social‑media note about a simple dinner and a cat named Max, posted just before the tragedy, now reads like a heartbreak in slow motion. ABC and the “GH” family hailed Geary’s record‑breaking career, the wedding that stopped America, the standard he set for everyone who followed. Together, their deaths turned December into a month of remembrance: for a bright Australian talent whose future was still unfolding, and for an American icon who had already changed television forever.