Lisa Loring

A five-year-old Loring played the original pigtailed oddball and she's been adored ever since by horror nerds, comedy fans and generations of women who felt ...

Now, after her death at the age of 64, the only living member of that Addams family is John Astin, who played her father, Gomez Addams. The dance, in which Ortega cuts a series of unexpected shapes on the dancefloor, went viral. Now a teenager, but still in the same pigtails and black dress, she brought a surly new monotone to Wednesday, while still making her innately lovable. While no longer in the limelight, she raised two daughters who were by her bedside this week after a stroke that proved fatal. At 11 and 13 in the films, Ricci’s Wednesday was a little older than Loring’s but had the same precocious demeanour and steely deadpan delivery. The original show was shot in black and white and only ran for two seasons, but it came to be regarded as a classic TV sitcom that balanced zany slapstick with political satire.

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 was only 6 years old when she won the hearts of international audiences for her portrayal of the gothic, pigtail-wearing Wednesday Addams.

She also worked regularly as a makeup artist on adult film sets under the name “Maxine Factor.” She was a recurring character on the daytime soap opera As the World Turns. On Twitter, Ortega thanked Loring, among others, for helping to create the highly replicated dance. The Addams Family, which was originally a New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams, has been revamped several times over the years. Loring was only six years old when she won the hearts of international audiences for her 1964 portrayal of Wednesday Addams. Read more:

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.

The Addams Family star Lisa Loring has died aged 64 after suffering a”massive stroke”. The original Wednesday Addams actress - a role since taken on by ...

And the legacy for her family and friends — a wealth of humor, affection and love will long play in our memories. Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa’s legacy in the world of entertainment is huge. She continued: “She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams.

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.

"She brought to life one of the most iconic characters in Hollywood history that is still celebrated today."

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.

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.