Wednesday's most notable features are her pale skin and long, dark braided pigtails. She has a tendency to startle people due to her gothic personality. She enjoys raising spiders and researching the Bermuda Triangle. Wednesday has been shown to care for Pugsley, but is often hostile towards him, and has tried to kill Pugsley many times.

Wednesday does most of her experiments on her brother Pugsley Addams for 'fun' or for punishment. Wednesday Addams is a typically young girl (in the original series, she is about six, in the two original movies and animated movies, she is 13, in the Netflix series, she is 15 and 16, and is 18 in the Addams Family musical) who is obsessed with death and is described as very brilliant, with a penchant for doing odd scientific experiments. Earlier adaptations depict her as the younger sibling, while later adaptations depict Wednesday as the elder Addams child. Wednesday is the only daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams and the sister of Pugsley Addams. Actress and poet Joan Blake, an acquaintance of Charles Addams, offered the idea for the name. Go tell him you'll poison him right back.' When the characters were adapted for the 1964 television series, Charles Addams named Wednesday based on the Monday's Child nursery rhyme line: 'Wednesday's child is full of woe'. The character that would later be known as Wednesday Addams first appeared in the August 26th, 1944 issue of The New Yorker in an illustration captioned, 'Well, don't come whining to me.

Wednesday has been portrayed by several actresses in various films and television series, including Lisa Loring in the television series The Addams Family (1964–1966) and in the television film Halloween with the New Addams Family (1977) Christina Ricci in the feature films The Addams Family (1991) and Addams Family Values (1993) Nicole Fugere in the direct-to-video film Addams Family Reunion (1998) and in the television series The New Addams Family (1998–1999) and Jenna Ortega in the television series Wednesday (2022).Īddams Family members were unnamed in The New Yorker cartoons that first appeared in 1938. She is typically portrayed as a morbid and emotionally reserved child that is fascinated by the macabre, often identified by her pale skin and black pigtails. Wednesday Addams is a fictional character from the Addams Family multimedia franchise created by American cartoonist Charles Addams. (youngest brother, Halloween with the New Addams Family)įester Addams (great-great-uncle/great-grand-uncle) (in the 1964 series) (uncle from then on)ĭebbie Jellinsky Addams (aunt via marriage to Fester, Addams Family Values deceased) (younger sister, Halloween with the New Addams Family) Pubert Addams (youngest brother, Addams Family Values) Lisa Loring as Wednesday in The Addams Family original TV series.

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