Lisa Loring, the first performer of the role of Wednesday Addams, has died

American actress Lisa Loring, the first performer of the role of Wednesday Addams in the cult series “The Addams Family” (1964−1966), died of a stroke at the age of 64. The death of Lisa Loring was confirmed by her daughter Vanessa Fumberg, Variety writes. “She passed away peacefully, and both daughters were holding her hands,” Fumberg said. A friend of the actress, the writer Lori Jacobson, wrote on her Facebook that Loring was admitted to the hospital with a stroke. “It is with great sadness that I announce the death of our friend Lisa Loring. Four days ago she suffered a massive stroke caused by smoking and high blood pressure. She was on life support for three days. Yesterday her family made the difficult decision to take it off and this evening she died,” Jacobson wrote. She noted that Loring’s name is “forever woven into the tapestry called pop culture,” and she herself will remain “in our hearts as Wednesday Addams.” Lisa Loring and John Austin in the series “The Addams Family” Lisa Loring was born in 1958, and already at the age of three she was acting as a model. At the age of 6-8 (from 1964 to 1966), she starred in the TV series “The Addams Family”, where she played the daughter of the main characters – the girl Wednesday, a gloomy child with gothic facial features and two long braids. She also starred in the series “The Girl from UNCLE”, “Fantasy Island”, “Barnaby Jones”, “As the World Turns”, the films “Wild Haven”, “Bloody Frenzy”. Actress Jenna Ortega, who recently reinterpreted Wendy Addams in the Netflix series Wednesday, said she was inspired by Loring’s portrayal of the character in the 1960s. Read also: What we will remember about Pavlychko: creativity, activism and poems that became hits



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