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Lisa Loring, who played the original Wednesday Addams, dead at 64

Lisa Loring — who played the original Wednesday Addams character on the original “Addams Family” television show — has died. She was 64.

Loring was taken off life support on Saturday after suffering a “massive stroke,” her friend Laurie Jacobson said in a post on Facebook announcing the death.

“It is with great sadness that I report the death of our friend, Lisa Loring,” Jacobson wrote.

“4 Days ago she suffered a massive stroke brought on by smoking and high blood pressure. She had been on life support for 3 days.”

Loring’s family made the decision to remove the life support on Saturday and she passed overnight.

Jacobson added: “She is embedded in the tapestry that is pop culture and in our hearts always as Wednesday Addams.”

Lisa Loring.
Lisa Loring was taken off life support on Saturday after suffering a “massive stroke.” Getty Images
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Loring with co-star John Astin, who payed her father Gomez Addams in The Addams Family.
Loring with co-star John Astin, who payed her father Gomez Addams in The Addams Family.Disney General Entertainment Con
A photoshoot for the pilot of the original Addams Family on June 30, 1964.
A photoshoot for the pilot of the original Addams Family on June 30, 1964.Disney General Entertainment Con
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Loring was just 6 years old when she played Wednesday from 1964-1966.

She also appeared in the sitcom “The Pruitts of Southampton” and the epic CBS soap opera “As the World Turns.”