Meet the Cast of ‘Wednesday’ Season 2

Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams

Ortega is the latest actress to step into the role of Wednesday Addams, created by cartoonist Charles Addams, bringing a whole new side to the death-obsessed little girl previously played by stars like Lisa Loring and Christina Ricci.

“People have been telling me I look like her since I was six years old,” the actress told PEOPLE. “And I have a pretty dark sense of humor!”

Prior to Wednesday, Ortega was best known for her role as Ellie Alves in the second season of You, but she actually got her start as a child actress. The California native portrayed young Jane on Jane the Virgin from 2014 to 2019 and was later cast as Harley Diaz in Disney Channel’s Stuck in the Middle.

In addition to her TV roles, the young star has also amassed several film credits to date, appearing in Netflix’s Yes Day and The Babysitter: Killer Queen, as well as HBO Max’s The Fallout in 2021 alone. More recently, she took on the role of Astrid Deetz in 2024’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams

Zeta-Jones plays the role of the family matriarch, Morticia Addams.

The Academy Award winner started as a child actress in London’s West End, appearing in musicals like Annie and Bugsy Malone. After relocating to Los Angeles, Zeta-Jones became a household name with leading roles in films like The Mask of Zorro (1998), Entrapment (1999), Traffic (2000) and Chicago (2002), the latter of which won her the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

The actress returned to television in 2017 for the first season of Ryan Murphy’s anthology series Feud in the role of Olivia de Havilland.

In real life, Zeta-Jones is a mother of two children, Carys and Dylan, whom she shares with her husband, Michael Douglas.

Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams

Guzmán portrays Morticia’s husband and the affable Addams family patriarch in the Netflix series. Before playing Gomez, the Puerto Rican actor was best known for his role as Raoul “El Cid” Hernandez in HBO’s Oz, as well as his appearance in films like Boogie Nights (1997), Punch-Drunk Love (2002) and Traffic, where he first acted alongside his future TV wife, Zeta-Jones.

During a November 2022 appearance on The Rich Eisen Show, Guzmán shared how he was cast in Wednesday, revealing that he was approached by Burton personally and that the director offered him the role without an audition.

As for his personal life, Guzmán has been married to his wife, Angelita Galarza-Guzmán, since 1985. The couple have welcomed seven children together.

Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams

The role of Wednesday’s favorite torture victim, her brother Pugsley Addams, went to actor Isaac Ordonez. He previously appeared in Disney’s A Wrinkle in Time (2018) and a handful of indie and short films, though the Netflix series was the young actor’s breakout role.

However, as Ordonez told J-14 in November 2022, he wasn’t nervous “at all” to step into the shoes of such a well-known character.

“I just went in blind,” he explained, adding that he wanted to add a “funny” element to Pugsley. “I just went with it and created him.”

Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill

Joining the cast of Wednesday was a full-circle moment for Ricci, who previously played the titular character when she was 10 years old in 1991’s The Addams Family.

The actress reprised her role as Wednesday again in 1993 for Addams Family Values before going on to star in several ’90s hits, such as Casper and Now and Then. Ricci then went on to appear in more than a dozen films, including The Opposite of Sex (1998), Sleepy Hollow (1999) and Monster (2003).

She also broke into TV, appearing on ABC’s short-lived series Pan Am in 2011 and producing and starring in Lifetime’s The Lizzie Borden Chronicles. Ricci also currently plays Misty Quigley on Showtime’s critically acclaimed series Yellowjackets.

More than 30 years after she first donned Wednesday’s gothic look, Ricci returned to the Addams family world to play Marilyn Thornhill, the house mother of Wednesday’s dorm at Nevermore.

Aside from her career, Ricci is also a mother to two children. She welcomed her son, Freddie, in 2014 with her ex-husband, James Heerdegen, and her daughter, Cleopatra, in 2021 with her husband, hairstylist Mark Hampton.

Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair

Wednesday’s roommate, Enid Sinclair, quickly became one of the series’ fan favorites, thanks to Emma Myers’ portrayal of the werewolf-in-training as a positive (and colorful) influence on the gloomy protagonist.

Sinclair has been acting since she was a child, and previously appeared in films like Girl in the Basement (2021) and A Taste of Christmas (2020).

Not only did Wednesday mark her biggest role yet, but it also presented Myers with another career first — getting to work with actors her own age. The actress told Teen Vogue in November 2022 that one of the best parts of filming the series in Romania was bonding with her fellow castmates.

“I’ve never had a cast around my age before. I’m normally the youngest one on set,” she said. “We got along so well.”

Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay

Joy Sunday was excited to bring a new side to the stereotypical “mean girl” as Nevermore’s resident “it girl,” Bianca Barclay.

“I was just elated to be able to put my own spin on it and to really provide a nuanced take on the mean girl, the strong girl,” Sunday told Deadline in December 2022. “I feel lucky to have been able to play her.”

Sunday previously appeared in Netflix’s Dear White People and Freeform’s Good Trouble. She’s also lent her voice to the narration of a few audiobooks, including Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda.

Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin

Hunter Doohan plays the role of Tyler Galpin — a character whom Wednesday learns is deeply conflicted and deceptive.

Doohan previously appeared in Showtime’s Your Honor alongside Bryan Cranston. He also played a younger version of Aaron Paul in Apple TV+’s Truth Be Told.

Off-screen, Doohan married his longtime partner Fielder Jewett in June 2022 — and his on-screen dad, Cranston, served as the officiant.

Victor Dorobantu as Thing

Magician Victor Dorobantu is the man behind the Addams family’s disembodied hand. While versions of Thing have appeared in every Addams family adaptation, Burton’s take on the five-fingered character was a bit more, well, Burton-esque.

“Thing was a very different type of Thing. It was scarred with stitches. It’s a whole different kind of interpretation,” Dorobantu told Vanity Fair in December 2022.

Wednesday is the Romanian hand performer’s first major television project, and though only a small part of him appeared on-screen, the character required serious preparation. Dorobantu told the publication he studied American Sign Language, Morse code and military hand gestures when developing Thing’s language. While filming, he donned a bluescreen suit, crouching behind Ortega to stay as invisible as possible.

Fred Armisen as Uncle Fester

Fred Armisen’s Uncle Fester is one of the most notable characters in the series. And even though his role is small, Armisen has fully committed to the part, telling Vanity Fair in October 2022 that he opted to shave his head instead of wearing a bald cap “to just make it that much more convincing.”

The casting of Uncle Fester was kept secret ahead of the show’s premiere, and though fans had several theories about who would take on the part of the Addams family’s electrifying relative, showrunner Miles Millar told TVLine in November 2022 that Armisen “was always that first choice.”

Armisen’s role in Wednesday adds to a long list of other guest appearances he’s made over the years, popping up in shows like 30 Rock, Parks and Recreation, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and more. He’s best known, however, for his long-running stint on Saturday Night Live and his sketch comedy show Portlandia.

Armisen was previously married to singer Sally Timms and actress Elisabeth Moss. He is currently married to Riki Lindhome, whom he met while filming Wednesday and secretly wed in June 2022. Together, they are raising Lindhome’s son Keaton, whom she welcomed via surrogate in March 2022.

Joanna Lumley as Grandmama Hester Frump

Lumley portrays Morticia’s formidable mother, Grandmama Hester Frump, and the fabulously wealthy mogul behind Frump Mortuaries.

Born in India, the British actress began her career as a model in the 1960s before transitioning to acting. She is best-known for roles like Patsy Stone in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous, Maudeline Everglot in Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride (2005) and Aunt Emma in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).

Lumley has one son, Jamie, whom she welcomed at the age of 21 and shares with photographer Michael Claydon. She went on to marry screenwriter Jeremy Lloyd in 1970, but their union only lasted a few months, according to Express. In 1986, she wed Stephen Barlow, according to The Independent.

Joonas Suotamo as Lurch

Joonas Suotamo plays the Addams family’s trusty driver, Lurch.

The actor, who is nearly 7 feet tall, played professional basketball before his life took a turn in 2015 when he was cast as the body double for Peter Mayhew, who played Chewbacca, in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens. He went on to fully assume the role of Chewbacca in Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi (2017), Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) and Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker (2019).

Suotamo has been married to wife Milla Suotamo since 2018, per Instagram. They share three kids.

Steve Buscemi as Principal Dort

Buscemi portrays the rather wacky Principal Dort, head of Nevermore Academy, in season 2 of Wednesday.

Buscemi began his working life as a New York City firefighter before pivoting to acting in the early 1980s. His breakout role was as Mr. Pink in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs in 1992. He became known for off‑beat, eccentric roles in favorites like Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Ghost World and action films including Con Air and Armageddon.

On television, he achieved widespread recognition as corrupt politician Nucky Thompson in HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, winning a Golden Globe and multiple SAG Awards.

The actor was married to Jo Andres from 1987 until her death in 2019. They shared one son.

Evie Templeton as Agnes DeMille

Evie Templeton plays Agnes DeMille — a young Nevermore outcast who is completely starstruck by Wednesday. 

Templeton’s acting career is just getting started. She debuted on-screen in 2022 with minor roles in Pinocchio and the BBC series Life After Life. Her first major film role came a year later when she was cast as Grace Holland in the horror movie Lord of Misrule.

Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Sheriff Ritchie Santiago

Luyanda Unati Lewis‑Nyawo’s character, Ritchie Santiago, was promoted from deputy to sheriff of Jericho in season 2 of Wednesday.

Before joining the cast of the Netflix show in 2022, Lewis‑Nyawo appeared in smaller roles on series like Devs and The Dungeon Run.

Lewis‑Nyawo is currently dating sound designer Em Edwards, per Instagram.

Billie Piper as Isadora Capri

Former teenage pop star Billie Piper was fittingly cast as Isadora Capri — Nevermore’s head of music.

Piper quit music to pursue acting, and her breakthrough role came in 2005 when she starred as Rose Tyler in the BBC revival of Doctor Who. More recently, she starred in I Hate Suzie (2020) and Scoop (2024) before joining Wednesday.

The actress was married to TV host Chris Evans from 2001 to 2007, and later to actor Laurence Fox from 2007 to 2016. She shares two sons with Fox and has a daughter with musician Johnny Lloyd, according to The Independent.

Lady Gaga as Rosaline Rotwood

Following the viral use of her song “Bloody Mary” over clips from season 1, Lady Gaga joined Wednesday season 2 as Rosaline Rotwood — a mysterious teacher at Nevermore Academy.

The Grammy-winning artist made her acting debut in American Horror Story: Hotel (2015). She then stunned audiences with her performance as Ally in A Star Is Born (2018) opposite Bradley Cooper — a role that earned her an Oscar nomination. Lady Gaga is also known for her portrayal of Patrizia Reggiani in House of Gucci (2021) and Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux (2024).

She is currently engaged to businessman Michael Polansky.