Wednesday Addams

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Lisa Loring, original Wednesday Addams actress, dead at 64 (CNN)

Lisa Loring, best known as the first actress to play Wednesday Addams in the original "The Addams Family" sitcom, has died at the age of 64.

“I paid homage to Lisa Loring, the first Wednesday Addams. She took on the role when she was six years old and played the death-obsessed character until the show ended two years later. Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night,” Jacobson wrote. “She brought to life one of the most iconic characters in Hollywood history that is still celebrated today,” Carbaugh said. In 1977, she appeared as Wednesday Sr. Following her stint as Wednesday in “The Addams Family,” Loring joined Phyllis Diller’s sitcom “The Pruitts of Southampton.” She later landed a recurring role in “As the World Turns,” playing Cricket Montgomery.

Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams actress, dies at 64 (BBC News)

She was five when she starred in the first TV adaptation of The Addams Family in the 1960s.

The show is one of Netflix's most watched shows of all time. In December, Ms Ortega told Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight show she "payed homage to Lisa Loring, the first Wednesday Addams", doing "a little bit of her shuffle that she does". Lisa Loring, best known for her character Wednesday Addams in the first TV adaptation of The Addams Family in the 1960s , has died at the age of 64.

Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams, is dead at 64 (NPR)

Lisa Loring will be remembered as a Hollywood icon for playing the gloomy Wednesday Addams at age 6. She went on to fill roles on As the World Turns and the ...

According to her IMBD page, Loring was born in the Marshall Islands to Navy personnel. While the show wasn't an immediate hit (it only lasted two seasons), decades of re-runs turned the eccentric family into a beloved American treasure. Loring semi-retired from acting in the mid-1990s following a friend's suicide and her own drug addictions, according to IMBD. She solidified her place in the cultural canon while starring as the 6-year-old Wednesday in the original Addams Family series, which aired in 1964. "The legacy for her family and friends – a wealth of humor, affection and love – will long play in our memories," Jacobson wrote. Lisa Loring, best known for her role as Wednesday on the first run of The Addams Family, died on Saturday, her agent confirmed to NPR.

Lisa Loring, the Original Wednesday Addams, Dies at 64 (Vanity Fair)

Jenna Ortega, the latest Wednesday, recently thanked Loring for inspiring her viral dance.

When Ortega’s performance inspired a viral dance similar to moves Loring had once displayed, the younger actor [thanked](https://twitter.com/jennaortega/status/1596230597780770816?s=20&t=JQHbOa2t6oxJCIljMbpZ6g) Loring for her creative influence. [the onscreen role of Wednesday Addams](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/full-of-woe-wednesday-addams-through-the-ages) on TV’s The Addams Family, has died at the age of 64. [Coming to (and Leaving) Netflix](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/new-on-netflix-the-best-movies-and-tv-shows-coming-and-leaving-in-february-2023?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-011823)in February She later earned a recurring role as Cricket Montgomery on the soap opera As the World Turns from 1980 to 1983. I know she was very weak. After 64 episodes on The Addams Family, nearly all of the original cast (including Loring) would reunite in 1977 for the NBC TV movie Halloween With the New Addams Family. She is survived by her two daughters and grandchildren Emiliana and Charles. Her daughter Vanessa Foumberg told [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/general-news/lisa-loring-wednesday-actress-addams-family-dead-at-64-1235312488/) that Loring passed away Saturday night at Providence St. I was in her company just a few weeks ago. After The Addams Family, Loring secured roles on series such as Phyllis Diller’s sitcom The Pruitts of Southampton, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., Fantasy Island, and Barnaby Jones. Loring is best remembered for her delightfully macabre turn as Wednesday on ABC’s adaptation of Charles Addams’s beloved comic strip. [Netflix’s Wednesday](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/wednesday-netflix-season-2).

Lisa Loring dead: Original Wednesday Addams was 64 (Los Angeles Times)

The “Addams Family” and “As the World Turns” star died Saturday after a stroke, her daughter Vanessa Foumberg confirmed to Variety. “She went peacefully with ...

In the 1980s, Loring appeared in the long-running soap opera “As the World Turns” as Cricket Montgomery. Christina Ricci, who played Wednesday in the 1991 “Addams Family” movie and its sequels, also appears in the Netflix spinoff and reacted to news of Loring’s death by posting a broken-heart emoji [on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/stories/riccigrams/3027277495799361662/). Loring made her TV debut in a 1964 episode of the medical drama “Dr. And the legacy for her family and friends — a wealth of humor, affection and love will long play in our memories. Kildare” before delivering her breakout performance as Wednesday. “Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa’s legacy in the world of entertainment is huge.

Lisa Loring, Wednesday Addams in 'The Addams Family,' Dies at 64 (The New York Times)

With her dark clothes and pigtailed hair framing a pale face, Ms. Loring played Wednesday as a young girl obsessed with death on the ABC series, ...

Ms. Dominguez, Ms. Loring](https://twitter.com/jennaortega/status/1596230597780770816) among the inspirations for her iteration of Wednesday’s dance moves, which [became a sensation on TikTok](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/09/arts/dance/wednesday-dance-jenna-ortega.html) and [in dance clubs](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/style/wednesday-addams-dance.html). Acting “was not her love,” Ms. In addition to Ms. With her dark clothes and pigtailed hair framing a pale face, Ms. She married for the first time when she was 15, gave birth to her first child and then divorced a year later, her daughter said. Through those connections, Ms. “The Addams Family,” which premiered on ABC in 1964, was based on spooky but harmless characters that Charles Addams created for a series of cartoons that first appeared in The New Yorker in 1938. Loring did some child modeling work before she was offered the role on “The Addams Family” in 1964. Her death, in a hospital, was confirmed by her daughter Vanessa Callies Dominguez, who said Ms. Her grandmother owned a Mexican restaurant on Ventura Boulevard in the Sherman Oaks neighborhood of Los Angeles that was popular with people in the movie industry, Ms.