Wednesday Addams

Wednesday Addams
Wednesday, as portrayed by Christina Ricci in Addams Family Values
First appearance	The New Yorker cartoon, (1938)
Created by	Charles Addams
Portrayed by	Lisa Loring, Cindy Henderson, Christina Ricci, Debi Derryberry, Nicole Fugere, Krysta Rodriguez, Rachel Potter Lauren Revere, Melissa Hunter
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Gender	Female
Family	Gomez (father) Morticia (mother) Lucas (husband) Pugsley (older brother) Pubert (younger brother) Fester (uncle) Grandmama (grandmother) Itt (cousin) Debbie Jellinsky-Addams (aunt)
Nationality	American

Wednesday Friday Addams is a fictional character created by American cartoonist Charles Addams in his comic strip The Addams Family. The character has also appeared in television and film, in both the live action and animated formats.

In Addams' cartoons, which first appeared in The New Yorker, Wednesday and other members of the family had no names. When the characters were adapted to the 1964 television series, Charles Addams gave her the name "Wednesday", based on the well-known nursery rhyme line, "Wednesday's child is full of woe". She is the sister of Pugsley Addams (and, in the movie Addams Family Values, also the sister of Pubert Addams), and she is the only daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams.

Wednesday's most notable features are her pale skin and long, dark twin braids. She seldom shows emotion and is generally bitter. Wednesday usually wears a black dress with a white collar, black stockings and black shoes.

In the 1960s series, she is significantly more sweet-natured, although her favorite hobby is raising spiders; she is also a ballerina. Wednesday's favorite toy is her Marie Antoinette doll, which her brother guillotines (at her request). She is stated to be six years old in the television series' pilot episode. In one episode, she is shown to have several other headless dolls as well. She also paints pictures (including a picture of trees with human heads) and writes a poem dedicated to her favorite pet spider, Homer. Wednesday is deceptively strong; she is able to bring her father down with a judo hold.

In the 1991 film, she is depicted closer to the original cartoons. She shows sadistic tendences and a dark personality, and is revealed to have a deep interest in the Bermuda Triangle and an admiration for an ancestor (Great Aunt Calpurnia Addams) who was burned as a witch in 1706. In the 1993 sequel, she was even darker: buried a live cat, tried to kill her baby brother Pubert, set fire to Camp Chippewa and [presumably] scared fellow camper, Joel, to death.