Lisa Loring

According to her friend Laurie Jacobson, Loring experienced a "massive stroke" and was on life support for three days.

She reprised her role in the 1977 television movie "Halloween with the New Addams Family." She added that Loring was a "beautiful, kind, a loving mother" and concluded her post: "The legacy for her family and friends -- a wealth of humor, affection and love will long play in our memories. I know she was very weak. Damn, girl...you were a ton of fun." "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."

Actor Lisa Loring, who played Wednesday Addams in the first screen adoption of 'The Addams Family', has died at the age of 64.

She began modelling when she was three and landed her first role on television soon after, in an episode of the NBC medical drama 'Dr. She even appeared in a number of shows in the late 80s, including 'Blood Frenzy', 'Iced', and 'Savage Harbor'. [The Guardian](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jan/30/lisa-loring-the-original-wednesday-addams-dies-at-age-64), Ms Loring is best known for playing the role of Wednesday Addams in ABC's sitcom 'The Addams Family'. As per the outlet, Ms Loring was born Lisa Ann DeCinces in the Marshall Islands in 1958. Announcing Ms Loring's death, her friend Laurie Jacobson wrote on Facebook that she had "suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure" and had been on life support for three days before her family decided to remove it on the weekend. Ms Jacobson paid tribute to Ms Loring's "legacy in the world of entertainment".

The actress, who was best known for her role as Wednesday in The Addams Family sitcom in the mid-1960s, died after being taken off life support. Her death was ...

Her edition of the series ran between 1964 and 1966, running for 64 episodes in total. Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa's legacy in the world of entertainment is huge. "It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend, Lisa Loring. [sign up to our bi-weekly newsletter](https://www.buzz.ie/news/climate-newsletter-environment-energy-biodiversity-27086905) [READ NEXT - The environmental wins and losses of 2022](https://www.buzz.ie/news/irish-news/environment-climate-change-ireland-2022-28447804) [READ NEXT - The top political stories in Ireland in 2022](https://www.buzz.ie/news/politics/politics-ireland-2022-main-events-28853157) "And the legacy for her family and friends — a wealth of humour, affection and love will long play in our memories." She continued: "She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams.

Loring's daughter Vanessa Foumberg confirmed the actor died Saturday due to complications from a stroke, Variety reported. "She went peacefully with both her ...

She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams," Jacobson wrote. And the legacy for her family and friends -- a wealth of humor, affection and love will long play in our memories. She added, "Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa's legacy in the world of entertainment is huge. I was in her company just a few weeks ago. I know she was very weak. She wrote: "It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend, Lisa Loring.

Lisa Loring, best known as the first actress to play Wednesday Addams in the original "The Addams Family" sitcom, has died at the age of 64.

“I paid homage to Lisa Loring, the first Wednesday Addams. She took on the role when she was six years old and played the death-obsessed character until the show ended two years later. Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night,” Jacobson wrote. “She brought to life one of the most iconic characters in Hollywood history that is still celebrated today,” Carbaugh said. In 1977, she appeared as Wednesday Sr. Following her stint as Wednesday in “The Addams Family,” Loring joined Phyllis Diller’s sitcom “The Pruitts of Southampton.” She later landed a recurring role in “As the World Turns,” playing Cricket Montgomery.

Loring's daughter Vanessa Foumberg confirmed the actor died Saturday (28 January) due to complications from a stroke, Variety reported. "She went peacefully ...

She also worked as a makeup artist on adult films. "Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa's legacy in the world of entertainment is huge. I was in her company just a few weeks ago. "Yesterday, her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night. Godspeed my friend." She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams.

Recently, Jenna Ortega's portrayal in the popular Netflix series "Wednesday" was credited as drawing influence from Lisa Loring.

When [Ortega](/topic/ortega)danced her own rendition of Wednesday's dance, she made reference to her performance, "The Drew," in the most recent season. [Wednesday Addams](/topic/wednesday-addams)in 1964 was portrayed by actress [Lisa Loring](/topic/lisa-loring), who passed away at the age of 64 at the St. After appearing in "The Addams Family," Loring also acted in the sitcom "The Pruitts of Southampton" and the espionage thriller "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." before landing a recurrent part on the venerable daytime drama "As the World Turns." Loring's "legacy in the world of entertainment" was honoured by her friend Laurie Jacobson. Lisa Loring was born Lisa Ann DeCinces in the Marshall Islands in 1958, according to the publication.

She was five when she starred in the first TV adaptation of The Addams Family in the 1960s.

The show is one of Netflix's most watched shows of all time. In December, Ms Ortega told Jimmy Fallon on the Tonight show she "payed homage to Lisa Loring, the first Wednesday Addams", doing "a little bit of her shuffle that she does". Lisa Loring, best known for her character Wednesday Addams in the first TV adaptation of The Addams Family in the 1960s , has died at the age of 64.

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.

Loring played the princess of all things morbid from 1964 to 1966 in The Addams Family, the first adaptation of Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons.

She started modeling at the age of three and then was cast in an episode of Dr. She lived in the Marshall Islands and Hawaii before coming to Los Angeles. I know she was very weak.

Former child star Lisa Loring, who is remembered as Wednesday Addams in the mid-1960s sitcom The Addams Family, died Saturday following a stroke.

Following The Addams Family, Loring appeared in episodes of The Phyllis Diller Show, The Girl From U.N.C.L.E., Fantasy Island and the detective drama Barnaby Jones, among other TV series. Her last acting credit was in the 2015 film Doctor Spine. As the original Wednesday, Loring was the blueprint for the pale, pigtail-wearing Wednesday for other actresses who inherited the role (including, at present, I was in her company just a few weeks ago. I know she was very weak. That led to her role on The Addams Family, which ran for two seasons, from 1964 to 1966.

Lisa Loring, the original Wednesday Addams actress from the first TV adaptation of The Addams Family in the 1960s, has died at the age of 64.

“Beautiful, kind, a loving mother, Lisa’s legacy in the world of entertainment is huge. She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and, in our hearts, always as Wednesday Addams. Yesterday [January 29] her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed last night.

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.