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The series was a huge hit on Netflix

Lisa Loring, the former child star who portrayed Wednesday on the original “The Addams Family” series, has died, a friend announced. She was 64.

Lisa was the first to play Wednesday in the live-action adaptation of Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoons and she's reported to have sadly passed away after a 'massive stroke'.

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 empowered by her

The actor died on Saturday night (January 28) at St Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California due to complications from a stroke

"RIP, Lisa. Damn, girl…you were a ton of fun."

Loring was just five when she starred in the 1964 TV adaptation of Charles Addams’ macabre cartoons – a performance that has set the character’s tone for decades

Lisa Loring, who was best known for playing Wednesday in The Addams Family in the mid-1960s has died, her close friend has confirmed

Without this movie, there would be no 'Wednesday.'

Tim Burton's series Wednesday, based on a new interpretation of the Addams Family, exceeds 1 billion watch hours, putting it in the top three most-streamed shows of all time on the platform.

As played by Christina Ricci, the only daughter of the Addams Family taught Nineties kids that it was OK to be strange, different and performatively murderous. As Wednesday returns in a new Netflix series, Isabelle Aron speaks to fans and experts about how this pre-teen goth hero became a Nineties…