American actress Lisa Loring, who played the character of Wednesday Addams as a child in the 1960s television series "The Addams Family", died Saturday of a stroke at the age of 64, according to American social networks and media. The death of Lisa Loring, revealed overnight from Sunday to Monday by the specialized media Variety and by CNN, quoting her agent, has a certain resonance in the United States and Europe because of the new series on Netflix, "Wednesday" , by Tim Burton with Jenna Ortega.
"It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend Lisa Loring," producer and loved one Laurie Jacobson wrote on Facebook, citing a severe stroke due to the smoking and hypertension. On life support for a few days, her family made the decision to let her die on January 28. According to Ms. Jacobson, "she will remain Wednesday Addams, etched forever in pop culture and in our hearts."
Born in 1958 in the Marshall Islands, Lisa Ann DeCinces, whose real name was, began a career as a child model at the age of three, before playing little Wednesday in the television series "The Addams Family" in 1964. Her the best-known role that she resumed when she was older in 1977. This famous family, imagined in drawings in American newspapers in 1938 by Charles Addams, then had several adaptations, notably the hit film "The Addams Family" in 1991 with Christina Ricci as Wednesday. And Netflix has been airing a new series since late November, "Wednesday," directed by Tim Burton with Jenna Ortega in the title role.
