Her sharp black gaze with her girlish waist as high as three apples has gone around the world. Lisa Loring, a child propelled into stardom by her role in “The Addams Family” in the 1960s, died on Saturday January 28 following a heart attack. She was 64 years old. Long before the Netflix series, which revived the macabre adventures of the black-haired family, Lisa Loring had popularized the character of Wednesday with her pigtails and her passion for animals (dead if possible).
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It was her friend, the writer Laurie Jacobson who, in a Facebook post, announced her death.
due to “his smoking and high blood pressure”. “Beautiful, sweet, loving mother… what Lisa bequeaths to the world of entertainment is immense,” she explains in her text:
Facebook – Laurie Jacobson
Born in 1958 in the Marshall Islands, Lisa Loring took part in other series after having played her flagship character (“L’îlefantastique”, “As the World Turns”, “The Pruitts of Southampton”…) but her addictions , notably to heroin, and repeated depressions have unfortunately interrupted his career.
