Lisa Loring, original Wednesday Addams actor, dies at 64 – National | globalnews.ca

Lisa LoringBest known for generating youthful, funky icons wednesday adams in 1960’s sitcom the addams family, Dead. She was 64 years old.

Loring’s daughter, Vanessa Faumberg, confirmed the news of the actor’s passing to Variety on Sunday. she said loring died of a stroke,

“She passed away peacefully with both of her daughters,” Faumberg told the outlet.

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On Facebook, Loring’s friend Laurie Jacobson wrote that “she suffered a massive stroke… smoking and high blood pressure, Jacobson said Loring had been on life support for three days before her death.

Lisa Loring attends Chiller Theater Expo Halloween 2022 at the Hilton Parsippany on October 29, 2022 in Parsippany, NJ

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Loring was only six years old when she won the hearts of international audiences in 1964 for her portrayal of Wednesday Addams. She played the gothic, pigtail-wearing Addams daughter for two years until the sitcom ended in 1966.

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Addams Family, What was originally a New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams has been redesigned several times over the years. Most recently, popular actor Jenna Ortega wore a jet-black top in the Tim Burton-led Netflix series Wednesday,

In a viral dance scene, Ortega, 20, paid homage to Loring’s famous Wednesday frog dance, called “The Drew,” with a jig of her own. On Twitter, Ortega thanked Loring, among others, for helping him create the highly replicable dance.

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Loring, whose real name is Lisa Ann Dessins, was born in 1958 in the Marshall Islands. She started her modeling career at the age of three.

Later the addams familyLoring starred in the TV show Pruitts of Southampton And uncle’s girl, She was a recurring character on the daytime soap opera as the world Turns,

In the 1980s, Loring starred in several slasher films, including savage harbor And blood frenzy, She also worked regularly as a make-up artist on adult film sets under the name “Maxine Factor”.

Loring has two daughters, Marianne and Vanessa. Her husband, adult film actor Jerry Butler, died in 2018.

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