"Wednesday" is currently on everyone's lips. The reason is the resounding success of a Netflix series dedicated to the member of the "Addams Family". But long before Jenny Ortega slipped into the role, Lisa Loring played the girl who always dressed in black. She has now died at the age of 64.
Actress Lisa Loring is dead. She died on January 28 at the age of 64 in California. This was announced by her good friend Laurie Jacobsen via Facebook.
Accordingly, Loring suffered a stroke four days before her death. Smoking and high blood pressure would have favored this, admits Jacobsen. After the actress was in a coma for three days, her family stopped life support.
Loring's daughter Vanessa Foumberg also confirmed her mother's death to The Hollywood Reporter. She and her stepsister Vanessa held the actress' hand as she fell asleep peacefully.
Lisa Loring was the first actress to play a role that everyone is talking about right now. In the sitcom "The Addams Family" she embodied Wednesday from 1964 to 1966, the youngest offspring of the horror family. Since November 2022, Jenny Ortega has played a teenage version of the Addams daughter in the Netflix offshoot "Wednesday". And with great success.
The Addams Family was based on the hilariously chilling cartoons that Charles Addams drew for The New Yorker in the 1930s. When it was first broadcast, the series was overshadowed by the similar format "The Munsters", which started at the same time. Only over the years "The Addams Family" became a cult.
After her debut as a child actress in "The Addams Family", Loring starred in various other series, for example in the long-running soap opera "Young and Passionate". However, there was no major breakthrough in film and television. In 1977, she slipped back into Wednesday's black clothes in the TV flick Halloween with the New Addams Family. Four years earlier, at the age of 15, she had married for the first time.
Since the mid-1980s, Loring has only appeared sporadically in films, most recently in the 2015 horror comedy Doctor Spine. She also worked as a make-up artist for porn, among other things. On the set of one of the erotic films, she met her third husband, porn actor Jerry Butler. After the divorce, she also married Graham Rich in 2003, but divorced again in 2014.
Her two daughters, on the other hand, come from her first two marriages. Loring was married to her childhood friend Farrell Foumberg from 1973 to 1974. Her marriage to Doug Stevenson lasted from 1981 to 1983. The actress also leaves behind two grandchildren.
