Lisa Loring, the actress who played Wednesday Addams in the first screen adaptation of The Addams Family, has died aged 64 of a stroke.
Loring's personal friend, author Laurie Jacobson, wrote on Facebook that Loring had "suffered a massive stroke caused by smoking and high blood pressure."
Jacobson praised Loring's legacy in cinematography. She will always be remembered as Wednesday Adams, a role she played from 1964 to 1966 in the first adaptation of "The Addams Family" published by Charles Addams in the New Yorker.
She took on the role of Adams' fearsome daughter when she was only 5 years old, and her performance greatly influenced how this character would later behave.
Even the dance that quickly turned into a trend in the Netflix series "Wednesday" has its origins in Loring's dance as she has been an inspiration for Orteg, and even the lead actress of this series, Jenna Ortega, has thanked Lisa Loring, when her dance went viral
