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Lisa Rowling, known as the first actress to play Adams on Wednesday The author of the sitcom The Addams Family has died at the age of 64.
Loring’s daughter, Vanessa Foumberg, confirmed in a statement. variety that her mother died of a stroke on Saturday;
“She went peacefully with her two daughters holding hands,” Faunberg said.
Rowling’s friend Laurie Jacobson reported her death on Facebookshe said she “suffered a massive stroke caused by smoking and high blood pressure.”
“She was on life support for three days. Yesterday her family made the difficult decision to remove it and she passed away last night,” Jacobson wrote. Embedded in the tapestry of pop culture, he will always be in our hearts as Wednesday Addams.”
Following the news of her passing, fans took to social media to pay their respects, with one person writing on Twitter:
Rowling was Wednesday’s blueprint for wearing pale pigtails after appearing in the 1964 sitcom The Addams Family. She took on the role when she was six years old, and she played a death-obsessed character until the show ended her two years. later.
In 1977, she appeared as Wednesday Sr. in the television movie Halloween with the New Addams Family.
Rowling’s cast of deadpan characters, based on the New Yorker cartoon by Charles Addams, include Christina Ricci, who starred Wednesday in the 1991 hit film The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family Values. It paved the way for other actresses. ”
Jenna Ortega Following last year’s premiere of Tim Burton’s Netflix comedy-horror Wednesday, Rowling said her version of the pop culture icon was also inspired.
“I paid tribute to Lisa Rowling, the first Wednesday Addams. I did a little bit of the shuffle that she does,” Ortega said during an appearance on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” in December. said on the occasion.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Rowling was born Lisa Ann Desines in the Marshall Islands and was given her stage name when she began modeling at the age of three.
Following Wednesday’s stint on ‘The Addams Family,’ Rowling joined Phyllis Diller’s sitcom ‘The Pruitts of Southampton. She then made a recurring appearance playing cricketer Montgomery in ‘As the World Turns’.
Her acting credits also include the shows ‘The Girl From UNCLE’, ‘Fantasy Island’ and ‘Barnaby Jones’.