Lisa Loring | |
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 Loring interviewed in 2009 forCount Gore de Vol | |
| Born | Lisa Ann DeCinces (1958-02-16)February 16, 1958 |
| Died | January 28, 2023(2023-01-28) (aged 64) Burbank, California, U.S. |
| Known for | Wednesday Addams onThe Addams Family |
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| Children | 2 |
Lisa Loring (bornLisa Ann DeCinces; February 16, 1958 – January 28, 2023) was an American actress. She was best known for her work as achild actress from age six playingWednesday Addams on the 1964–1966sitcomThe Addams Family.[1][2]
Loring was born onKwajalein Atoll,Marshall Islands, aUnited Nations Trust Territory at the time, which had been administered by the United States. Her parents, Judith Ann (Callies) and James P. DeCinces,[3] both served in theUnited States Navy, and divorced shortly after her birth. She grew up inHawaii and later moved toLos Angeles with her mother. She began modeling at age three and appeared in an episode ofDr. Kildare, which aired in 1964.[4] Her mother died of alcoholism in 1974 at age 34.[4][5]
Loring was best known for her role portraying Wednesday Addams in the sitcomThe Addams Family (1964–1966). She was one of the longer-surviving members of the show's main cast. She later reprised the role for the TV movieHalloween with the New Addams Family which aired in October 1977. In 1966, she joined the cast of the ABC sitcomThe Pruitts of Southampton. From 1980 to 1983, she played the character Cricket Montgomery[4][5] on theCBSsoap operaAs the World Turns. She also appeared in threeB-gradeslasher films:Blood Frenzy andSavage Harbor (1987); andIced (1988).[6]
Loring married Farrell Foumberg in 1973 when she was 15, and had a daughter.[4][5] The marriage ended a year later. 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[4][5] and their marriage ended in 1983.
In 1987, Loring married adult film actorJerry Butler.[7] They met on the set of the 1987 adult filmTraci's Big Trick, on which Loring worked as a make-up artist and uncredited writer. In the ensuing years of their marriage, Loring voiced her dissatisfaction with Butler's continued involvement inpornography, and eventually Butler began to secretly participate in porn shoots without her knowledge. In an interview withDateline NBC in the 1990s, Butler described himself as "addicted to the lifestyle”, ashamed of his clandestine behavior and its effect on his marriage. The couple later appeared on theSally Jessy Raphael Show, again discussing the damage Butler's porn career was causing to their marriage. Butler and Loring divorced in 1992, which was also the year he began to exit the hardcore pornography industry, and, by choice, virtually disappeared from the public eye for many years.[4][5]
Loring was married for a fourth time in 2003 to Graham Rich. The couple separated in 2008 and divorced in 2014.[8]
Loring died of astroke, caused byhypertension, atProvidence Saint Joseph Medical Center inBurbank, California, on January 28, 2023, at age 64.[1][9]
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