Lisa Loring, TV’s original Wednesday Addams, has died.
Her passing was first announced on Facebook by a friend, who wrote “4 days ago [Loring] suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure. She had been on life support for 3 days. Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night.”
Loring was only six years old when she began playing Wednesday opposite John Astin’s Gomez and Carolyn Jones’ Morticia on television. Her version of the character, which wasn’t quite as goth and sullen as later interpretations, received renewed attention last year thanks to Netflix’s hit update of . On the new show, Jenny Ortega’s Wednesday does a very unusual dance — which promptly went viral on social media.
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