American actress Lisa Loring died of a stroke at the age of 64 on Saturday, according to American social networks and media. She played the character of Wednesday Addams as a child in the 1960s TV series ‘The Addams Family’.
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’, a producer and close friend of the deceased, Laurie Jacobson, wrote on Facebook, citing a serious cerebrovascular accident (CVA) due to the smoking and hypertension.
On an artificial respirator 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’.
His best-known role
Born in 1958 in the Marshall Islands, Lisa Ann DeCinces, her real name, began a career as a child model at the age of three, before playing little Wednesday in the TV series ‘The Addams Family’ in 1964. Her best-known role which she resumed when she was older in 1977.
This famous family, imagined in drawings in American newspapers in 1938 by Charles Addams, then experienced several adaptations, including the hit film ‘The Addams Family’ in 1991 with Christina Ricci in the role of Wednesday.
And Netflix has been broadcasting a new series since the end of November, ‘Wednesday’, directed by Tim Burton with Jenna Ortega in the title role.
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