Lisa Loring, Original Wednesday Actress on ‘The Addams Family,’ Dies at 64Story by Abid Rahman • Yesterday 11:50 PM
... Loring died Saturday night at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of complications from a stroke caused by high blood pressure, her daughter Vanessa Foumberg told The Hollywood Reporter. ...
Loring is best known for her turn as the morbid, pigtailed Wednesday on ABC’s black comedy The Addams Family, a role she took on in 1964. She played the character for only two years but set the template for live-action portrayals of Wednesday and was recently praised as an inspiration for Jenna Ortega’s interpretation on the hit Netflix series Wednesday.
She was born Lisa Ann DeCinces on Feb. 16, 1958, in the Marshall Islands; her parents divorced when she was very young, and she came to live in Los Angeles with her mother. She was given the stage name Lisa Loring and started modeling at age 3. Her first television appearance came in 1964 on an episode of the NBC medical drama Dr. Kildare. ...
With Loring’s death, Astin is the last surviving member of the original cast of The Addams Family. ...
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