Lisa Loring, Star of Original Addams Family Wednesdays, Dies

Lisa Loring, who played the original Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family from 1964 to 1966, recently left the world. She was 64 years old. Loring was just six years old when she rose to fame with the role of her on Wednesday. Loring’s daughter, Vanessa Foumberg, this weekend confirmed reports that her mother died of a stroke on Saturday.

Foumberg recently said in the statement: “She left in peace with her two daughters holding hands.” Meanwhile, Laurie Jacobson, a friend, also confirmed the death on Facebook. Laurie wrote on Facebook that Loring “is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts forever as Wednesday Addams.”

For the inexperienced, Loring was born in the Marshall Islands to a naval family. However, her parents divorced shortly after her birth and she moved to Los Angeles with her mother at age three. Lisa started modeling and soon after she was cast in an episode of Dr. Kildare. She later got herself the role of Wednesdays. Loring’s macabre performance made the character a classic icon. And this alone inspired Wednesday’s Netflix 2022 release, starring Jenna Ortega.

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The character Wednesday and his Addams relatives began as an MGM adaptation of the New Yorker Charles Addams cartoons that first appeared in 1938, Entertainment Tonight reported. The Addams Family sitcom was the first time the characters were named. Loring reunited with most of the original cast in 1977 for the NBC television movie Halloween With the New Addams Family.