Christina Ricci, Chloë Grace Moretz, Lisa Loring… They played Wednesday Addams before Jenna Ortega

This Wednesday, November 23, Netflix offers its subscribers a new series simply titled

.

Produced by Tim Burton, this fiction whose first season has eight episodes, focuses on the only daughter of the well-known Addams Family.

Wednesday Addams is now a student at the unique Nevermore Academy and must investigate a series of murders that terrorizes the city, while adapting to the other students of the establishment.

A substantial promotion has been imagined by the streaming platform, starting with a countdown for several weeks on their social networks until the choice of the release day, a Wednesday... This is Jenna Ortega, seen in the series

who lends her features to the heroine.

Before her, several actresses played the worrying Wednesday Addams.

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Lisa Loring from 1964 to 1966

She is the first to have played on screen Wednesday Addams, already wearing her two emblematic pigtails.

The 64-episode black and white American series was produced by ABC in 1964. But it only aired in France on M6 from 1987. His character already showed a strong taste for decapitated dolls.

Unlike the films with Christina Ricci, she is younger than her brother Pugsley in this version.

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Christina Ricci in 1991 and 1993

It was the role that revealed him to the general public.

Barely 11 years old, the very young actress remains arguably the most popular incarnation of Wednesday Addams.

She stars in the two films directed by Barry Sonnenfeld,

and

Addams Family Values .

She will continue her career as a child star of the 1990s in the fantastic register, notably with

in 1995. This is not the first time that her path has crossed that of Tim Burton.

Indeed, she shares with Johnny Depp the poster for

, the director's gothic work from 1999. In the

series from 2022, Christina Ricci plays a professor from Nevermore Academy.

Nicole Fugere in 1997 and 1998

Canceled after just one season,

failed to convince.

Its distribution in France will even be interrupted, for lack of audience.

Note that Nicole Fugerer already played Wednesday in the TV movie

in 1997. She gave the reply to Daryl Hannah and Tim Curry.

Chloë Grace Moretz in 2019 and 2021

Revealed in the subversive

, Chloë Grace Moretz already collaborated with Tim Burton in 2012 for

.

The film is the adaptation of a series broadcast from 1966 to 1971 on ABC, which features a particular family frequenting witches, werewolves and vampires.

The actress plays the daughter of the family, Carolyn.

In 2019, Chloë Grace Moretz doubles another strange heroine.

She is the voice of Wednesday Addams in the eponymous cartoon and in its sequel

released in cinemas in 2021.