Lisa Loring, who starred as the original Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family from 1964 to 1966, has recently left the world. She was 64. Loring was just six years old when she rose to fame with her role of Wednesday. Loring’s daughter, Vanessa Foumberg, confirmed the reports this weekend that her mother died of a stroke on Saturday.
Foumberg recenty said in the statement, “She went peacefully with both her daughters holding her 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 always as Wednesday Addams.’
For the unversed, 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 began modelling, and was soon after cast in an episode of Dr Kildare. She later got the Wednesday role. Loring’s ghoulsih acting made the character a classic icon. And this only inspired Netflix’s 2022 release of Wednesday, starring Jenna Ortega.
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The character Wednesday and her Addams relatives began as an MGM adaptation of Charles Addams’ New Yorker cartoons which first appeared in 1938, as reported by Entertainment Tonight. The Addams Family sitcom was the first time the characters were named. Loring reunited with most of the original cast in 1977 for NBC’s TV film Halloween With the New Addams Family.