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[08/27/21 - 07:30 AM]
Netflix Sets Additional Cast for "Wednesday"
They'll join Jenna Ortega in the titular role of Wednesday Addams with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Luis Guzmán guest starring as Morticia Addams and Gomez Addams.

[via press release from Netflix]

Netflix Sets Additional Cast for "Wednesday"

www.netflix.com/wednesday

It was previously announced that Jenna Ortega (Scream, The Fallout) would star in the titular role of "Wednesday Addams" with Catherine Zeta-Jones (Chicago, Traffic) and Luis Guzmán (Boogie Nights, Traffic) guest starring as "Morticia Addams" and "Gomez Addams" respectively in the new live-action, comedic coming-of-age tale, Wednesday, from Netflix and MGM.

REGULARS

· Hunter Doohan (Your Honor, Truth Be Told) will play Tyler Galpin. A townie who strikes up an unlikely friendship with Wednesday Addams. Tyler has a troubled relationship with his father, the local sheriff.

· Georgie Farmer (Treadstone, The Evermoor Chronicles) will play Ajax Petropolus. A student at Nevermore Academy who also happens to be a Gorgon. Awkward and shy, Ajax is anxious about looking anyone in the eye.

· Moosa Mostafa (Nativity Rocks!, The Last Bus) will play Eugene Otinger. One of Nevermore Academy's quirkiest students and president of the school's bee-keeping club.

· Emma Myers (Girl in the Basement, Taste of Christmas) will play Enid Sinclair. She is Wednesday's sunny and colorful Californian roommate at Nevermore Academy. Enid hails from a pack of San Francisco Werewolves.

· Naomi J. Ogawa (Skylin3s) will play Yoko Tanaka. A vampire with Harajuku-inspired Goth flair and one of the cool kids at Nevermore Academy.

· Joy Sunday (Dear White People, The Beta Test) will play Bianca Barclay. One of Nevermore Academy's most popular students, Bianca descends from a long line of Sirens with a mesmerizing power to persuade.

· Percy Hynes White (The Gifted, Pretty Hard Cases) will play Xavier Thorpe. A charismatic and supernaturally artistic Nevermore Academy student, who comes from wealth thanks to his celebrity psychic father.

· Thora Birch (Ghost World, The Walking Dead) will play Tamara Novak. Wednesday's dorm mother and the only "Normie" on staff at Nevermore Academy with a focus on all things botanical.

· Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, Another Period) will play Dr. Valerie Kinbott. A local therapist in the sleepy town of Jericho who takes a particular interest in her newest patient Wednesday Addams.

· Jamie McShane (Mank, Bloodline) will play Sheriff Donovan Galpin. Born and bred in Jericho, this Sheriff has always had an issue with Nevermore Academy and a vendetta against former student Gomez Addams.

ABOUT THE SERIES:

· Logline: The series is a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago - all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.

· Episodes: 8

· Director / Executive Producer: Tim Burton (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands)

· Showrunners / Executive Producers: Al Gough and Miles Millar (Smallville, Into the Badlands)

· Executive Producers: Steve Stark (Medium, The Event), Andrew Mittman for 1.21 (The Addams Family, Alphas), Kevin Miserocchi (Tee and Charles Addams Foundation), Kayla Alpert (Code Black, Up All Night), Jonathan Glickman for Glickmania (RESPECT, Addams Family 2), and Gail Berman (The Addams Family, Alphas)

· Studio: MGM Television





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