Lisa Loring who played the original Wednesday Addams dead at 64

Lisa Loring who played the original Wednesday Addams dead at 64

Lisa Loring — who played the original Wednesday Addams character on the original “Addams Family” television show — has died. She was 64.

Loring was taken off life support on Saturday after suffering a “massive stroke,” her friend Laurie Jacobson said in a post on Facebook announcing the death.

“It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend, Lisa Loring,” Jacobson wrote.

“4 Days ago she suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure. She had been on life support for 3 days.”

Loring’s family made the decision to remove the life support on Saturday and she passed overnight.

Jacobson added: “She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams.”

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Loring with co-star John Astin, who payed her father Gomez Addams in The Addams Family. Loring with co-star John Astin, who payed her father Gomez Addams in The Addams Family.
A photoshoot for the pilot of the original Addams Family on June 30, 1964. A photoshoot for the pilot of the original Addams Family on June 30, 1964.

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Loring was just 6 years old when she played Wednesday from 1964-1966.

She also appeared in the sitcom “The Pruitts of Southampton” and the epic CBS soap opera “As the World Turns.”