Lisa Loring facts for kids
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Lisa Loring
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Loring interviewed in 2009 for Count Gore de Vol
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Lisa Ann DeCinces
February 16, 1958 Kwajalein Atoll, Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands (now Marshall Islands)
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| Died | January 28, 2023 (aged 64) Burbank, California, U.S.
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| Known for | Wednesday Addams on The Addams Family |
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Farrell Foumberg
(m. 1973; div. 1974)Doug Stevenson
(m. 1981; div. 1983)Jerry Butler
(m. 1987; div. 1992)Graham Rich
(m. 2003; div. 2014) |
| Children | 2 |
Lisa Loring (born Lisa Ann DeCinces; February 16, 1958 – January 28, 2023) was an American actress. She is best known for her work as a child actress playing Wednesday Addams at six years old on the 1964–1966 sitcom The Addams Family.
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Life and career
Her parents both served in the United States Navy, but divorced shortly after her birth. She was born in Kwajalein, Marshall Islands, a United Nations Trust Territory at the time, which had been administered by the United States. She grew up in Hawaii and later moved to Los Angeles with her mother. She began modeling at age three and appeared in an episode of Dr. Kildare, which aired in 1964. Her mother died in 1974 at age 34.
She is best known for her role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family sitcom, 1964–1966.
She joined the cast of ABC sitcom The Pruitts of Southampton in 1966. After her childhood career, she also was a cast member of the CBS soap opera As the World Turns from 1980 to 1983, where she created the role of Cricket Montgomery.
She appeared in the slasher films Blood Frenzy (1987) and Iced (1988).
Personal life
Loring married her childhood sweetheart Farrell Foumberg in 1973 when she was 15, and had a daughter. The marriage ended a year later, in 1974. Loring married her second husband, actor Doug Stevenson, in 1981. He was a contract performer on another CBS/Procter & Gamble soap opera Search for Tomorrow. Loring had a second daughter with Stevenson, and their marriage ended in 1983.
In 1987, Loring married actor Jerry Butler. Butler and Loring divorced in 1992. Loring married for a fourth time in 2003 to Graham Rich. The couple separated in 2008, and as of June 2014 were in the process of a divorce.
Death
Loring had a stroke caused by hypertension, and died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, on January 28, 2023, at the age of 64.
See also
In Spanish: Lisa Loring para niños
