Lisa Loring, born in Hawaii before moving to Los Angeles, was best known for acting as Wednesday Addams in the original TV series “The Addams Family.”  Loring started her acting career in 1964 at the age of six and continued acting into the early 2000s.

After her role in “The Addams Family,” Loring had trouble finding roles. She acted in a lot of smaller film productions until her acting career came to an end. 

Although Loring started her acting career at six, she had been modeling since she was just three years old. She described her life as being “surreal” in an interview with “The Sydney Morning Herald.” 

Loring’s mother passed away when she was 14 from complications due to alcoholism. One year later, at the age of 15, Loring married her childhood sweetheart and first husband, Farrell Foumberg. The marriage only lasted a year, but they had a beautiful daughter together. 

In 1981, seven years after her divorce with Foumberg, Loring married actor Doug Stevenson, a contract performer on another CBS/Procter & Gamble soap opera, “Search for Tomorrow.” Their marriage was short-lived, and in 1983 their divorce was finalized. In 1984 however, Loring gave birth to a second daughter and acquired full custody of her. 

Loring’s third marriage, which she told “The Sydney Morning Herald” was “the biggest mistake of her life,” was to Jerry Butler, an adult film actor, who she met on the set of one of her movies. 

This marriage only lasted a few years; Loring ended the marriage after Butler had agreed to not make anymore adult films after their marriage in 1987 – but he had been doing them behind her back for the majority of their marriage. 

“I would not be involved with someone who did that… he was going behind my back and lying to me: that was it,” Loring said on “The Sydney Morning Herald.” She filed for divorce from him in 1992.

After the end of her marriage with Butler, she married her last husband, Graham Ritch, in 2003. Although their divorce was not finalized until 2014, their relationship ended in 2008 when they broke up.

A lot of people called her death “the end of an era” and she will never be forgotten for shaping the role of Wednesday Addams.