Lisa Rowling is the actress who played Wednesday Addams in the classic television adaptation. the adams family, died. She was 64 years old.
Loring died Saturday night at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank from complications of a stroke caused by high blood pressure, said her daughter Vanessa Foumberg. Hollywood Reporter.
“She lived peacefully with her two daughters [Vanessa and Marianne] Hold my hand,” she said.
Loring is best known for playing Sick Pigtail Wednesday on ABC’s black comedy sitcom. the adams familya role she assumed in 1964 at the age of six. It was recently praised as a ration. Wednesday.
Born Lisa Ann Desyneth on February 16, 1958 in the Marshall Islands, Rowling’s parents divorced when Rowling was a young child and later moved to live with her mother in Los Angeles. She was given the stage name Lisa Rowling and she started modeling at the age of three. Her first television appearance was in her 1964 episode of her NBC medical drama. Dr. Kildare.
Live-action TV version of Charles Adams produced by MGM after winning the role of Wednesday on ABC New Yorker Rowling began working on the half-hour comedy series at the age of five and a half, and revealed in subsequent interviews that she “learned to memorize before reading” to say her lines. Fans At his conventions and in several interviews, Rowling has fondly recounted his time working on Addams and His Family. “It was like a real family. We couldn’t have picked a better cast and crew,” said Rowling. It was revealed in a 2017 YouTube interview at the convention Monsterpalooza. “Carolyn Jones, John Astin, Gomez and Morticia were like parents to me. They were great.”
Airing alongside CBS’ equally creepy sitcom munsters, the adams family It ran for two seasons with a total of 64 episodes. In 1977 he reunited nearly all of the original cast for the NBC television movie. Halloween with the New Addams Family.
With Rowling’s death, Astin is the last surviving member of the original cast Addams family.
Considered a rising talent, Loring the adams familyand co-starred alongside Astin in ABC’s Phyllis Diller-led sitcom Pruitts of Southampton, playing Susan “Susie” Pruitt. Both shows shared executive producer David Levy. Pretz However, due to poor reviews, it only lasts one season. In 1966, Rowling also appeared in the following episodes. uncle’s girlbut her career stalled for years afterward.
In 1973, Rowling married for the first time when she was 15, to her childhood friend Farrell Vonberg. The following year, she had her first child, but tragedy struck her when her mother Judith died of chronic alcoholism at the age of 34.
Rowling returned to acting in the 1977s Halloween with the new Addams Family Appeared in a popular network show fantasy island When Barnaby Jones. In the early 1980s, she had a recurring role on CBS’s Soaps. As the World Turnsplaying the character of Cricket Montgomery.
As her television career came to an end, Rowling appeared in a series of groundbreaking photographs in the late 1980s.she starred blood frenzy When Savage Harbor (both 1987) and ice (1988), but the push to feature was short-lived, and a troubled personal life, including a battle with a heroin addiction, effectively ended her acting career.
Loring and Foumberg’s first marriage ended in 1974. After that she got married. looking for tomorrow She dated actor Doug Stevenson in 1981, and the relationship ended in divorce two years later. In 1987, she married adult film star Jerry Butler, and her new husband promised to quit pornography. , which proved to be a huge strain on their marriage, divorced in 1992. She married Graham Rich in 2003 and she divorced him in 2014.
In addition to daughters, survivors include grandchildren Emiliana and Charles.
Mike Burns contributed to this story.