This is a list of characters from the Netflix series Wednesday (2022–present).
Overview Portrayed by Character Species Appearances Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 Jenna Ortega Wednesday Addams Psychic (Raven) colspan="3" Jenna Ortega Goody Addams Spirit Gwendoline Christie Principal Larissa Weems Spirit Riki Lindhome Dr. Valerie Kinbott Human colspan="2" Jamie McShane Sheriff Donovan Galpin Human Hunter Doohan Tyler Galpin Hyde colspan="3" Percy Hynes White Xavier Thorpe Psychic (Raven) Emma Myers Enid Sinclair Werewolf colspan="3" Joy Sunday Bianca Barclay Siren colspan="3" Georgie Farmer Ajax Petropolus Gorgon colspan="3" Naomi J. Ogawa Yoko Tanaka Vampire colspan="2" Moosa Mostafa Eugene Ottinger Swarmer colspan="3" Christina Ricci Laurel Gates Human Victor Dorobantu Thing Hand colspan="2" Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo Sheriff Ritchie Santiago Human colspan="2" Isaac Ordonez Pugsley Addams Spark colspan="2" Luis Guzmán Gomez Addams Human colspan="2" Catherine Zeta-Jones Morticia Addams (née Frump) Psychic (Dove) colspan="2" Steve Buscemi Principal Barry Dort Pyro Owen Painter Isaac Night Zombie Billie Piper Isadora Capri Werewolf colspan="2" Noah B. Taylor Bruno Yuson Werewolf Evie Templeton Agnes DeMille Vanisher colspan="2" Joanna Lumley Grandmama Hester Frump Psychic (Raven) Eva Green Ophelia Frump Psychic (Raven) Tommie Earl Jenkins Mayor Noble Walker Human colspan="2" Iman Marson Lucas Walker Human colspan="2" George Burcea Lurch Human colspan="2" Joonas Suotamo colspan="2" Heather Matarazzo Judi Spannagel Avian Frances O'Connor Françoise Galpin (née Night) Hyde Winona Ryder Tabitha colspan="2" Chris Sarandon Balthazar colspan="2" Noah Taylor Cyrus colspan="2" Oscar Morgan Atticus colspan="2" Kennedy Moyer Daisy colspan="2" Calum Ross Rowan Laslow DaVinci colspan="2" William Houston Joseph Crackstone Zombie colspan="2" Nitin Ganatra Dr. Reggie Anwar Human colspan="2" Lewis Hayes Garrett Gates Human colspan="2" Fred Armisen Uncle Fester Addams Spark colspan="3" Haley Joel Osment Chet LaTroy Human Christopher Lloyd Professor Orloff Human Thandiwe Newton Dr. Rachael Fairburn Human Anthony Michael Hall Ron Kruger Human Liv Spencer Varicose Human colspan="2" Lady Gaga Rosaline Rotwood Spirit Casper Van Dien Arnold Hunt Human Lena Headey colspan="2" Andrew McCarthy colspan="2" James Lance colspan="2"
Outcast overview In the series, the term Outcast refers to anyone who has supernatural or paranormal abilities. It is because of their differences that Outcasts refer to regular humans as "Normies" and are often at odds with each other. Nevermore Academy is a school attended almost exclusively by several different species of Outcasts. They are sorted into the different categories listed below:
Avians – Outcasts that can control birds.
Cyclopes – Outcasts that were first mentioned in the episode "Hyde and Woe Seek" where Principal Barry Dort confirmed during the Outcast Day of Remembrance that they are extinct. DaVincis – Outcasts with telekinetic abilities. Faceless – Outcasts who have no eyes, noses, or mouths. Despite having no mouth, they can still eat food. Gorgons – Outcasts with snakes instead of hair that cause anyone who looks at them to turn to stone. The transformation does not appear to be permanent as in Greek legends but wears off after a few hours. Hydes – Mutated Outcasts who are banned from attending Nevermore Academy. It takes a traumatic event to unleash a person's Hyde form. Minotaurs – Outcasts that were first mentioned in the episode "Hyde and Woe Seek" where Principal Barry Dort confirmed during the Outcast Day of Remembrance that they are extinct. Psychics – Outcasts who can experience psychic visions. Some psychics are also experts at witchcraft. Two types of psychics exist: Doves have a kinder personality and see positive outcomes from their visions while Ravens have a more cynical personality and have a negative outlook regarding their visions. Pyros – Outcasts who possess pyrokinesis (the ability to generate and control fire).
Shapeshifters – Outcasts who can assume the form of anyone they encounter. Sirens – Outcasts whose siren songs can be used to brainwash and control anyone. Their songs will not work on anyone wielding an item made of Corinthian Coral. In addition, they can also turn their legs into a fish tail when submerged underwater. Sparks – Outcasts who possess electrokinesis (the ability to generate, store, and control electricity). Swarmers – Outcasts that can control arthropods. Vampires – Outcasts with extended lifespans that must wear sunglasses when in the sunlight. Though they can drink blood, the vampires eat other food as well. Vanishers – Outcasts who possess the ability to turn themselves invisible. Werewolves – Outcasts that assume bipedal wolf-like forms during a full moon and can retract their claws during the day. Yetis – Outcasts that were first mentioned in the episode "Woe What a Night", that had gone extinct in the 1950s. The "Abominable Snowman" name was considered offensive to them.
Main characters Wednesday Addams
Wednesday Addams (portrayed by Jenna Ortega as a teenager, Karina Varadi as a young girl) is the daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams. Wednesday is a Raven; a psychic who can see dark visions of past, present and future. She is new to Nevermore Academy, having been admitted mid-term after she was expelled from her old school for trying to kill her brother Pugsley's bullies by dropping piranhas in the school pool. She is introduced to her new school and her roommate, Enid Sinclair.
Upon her arrival, she tries to run away from Nevermore, but decides to stay to investigate the Hyde monster's murders after she is almost killed by Rowan Laslow and witnesses him being murdered by the Hyde soon after. Disapproving of the scheming employed by Bianca to win the annual Poe Cup boat race, she becomes Enid's copilot and following the race credo that there are no rules, applies her wits and wins the race for their House. Shortly afterwards, she discovers the Nightshade Library, which she starts to visit often. In one of her visions, it is revealed that Joseph Crackstone tried to burn her ancestor Goody Addams alive.
Wednesday also finds a love interest in Tyler Galpin, going with him to the school dance after Thing pretends to be her and asks him out. After her father is arrested for murder, Wednesday and Morticia work together and discover that Garrett was not killed by Gomez, but by the nightshade poison he had in his pocket. She notices that Laurel Gates, presumed drowned as a girl, is still alive and witnesses Noble Walker being run over by a car. She attends Mayor Walker's funeral and runs into her uncle Fester afterwards. With his help, she discovers from Nathaniel Faulkner's journal that the monster she was looking for is called a Hyde.
While she goes on a date with Tyler, Goody's journal is stolen and Thing is stabbed. Wednesday later discovers that Tyler is the Hyde and deduces that his master is Marilyn Thornhill. She confronts Thornhill with Principal Larissa Weems. After Weems is killed, Wednesday is knocked out and taken to Joseph Crackstone's crypt so Thornhill can use her blood to break the bloodlock which was placed on him by Goody Addams. After escaping from the crypt, she goes to Nevermore and kills Joseph Crackstone, having been advised on how to do so by Goody.
At the start of Season Two, Wednesday uses her Raven powers to track down an elusive serial killer. The misuse of her gift renders it unreliable and frequently inaccessible, straining her relationship with Morticia. She has a vision of Enid's premature death and is determined to prevent it.
Wednesday discovers that the nearby WIllow Hill Insane Asylum has been using Outcasts for experimental purposes. Following Tyler's capture at the end of Season One, he is confined there for treatment but breaks out following a massive power failure caused by Uncle Fester, who had been working undercover there for Wednesday. After being in a coma for two weeks due to being defenestrated by Tyler, she gains Larissa Weems as her new spirit guide. The season also confirms that Wednesday is allergic to color.
Following the death of Isaac Night who had intended to use Pugsley as the power source for a machine he had built to remove Françoise Galpin's Hyde, and Francoise's suicide, Wednesday and Thing are joined by Uncle Fester in searching for Enid, who is trapped in her werewolf form. It is presumed this is how Wednesday and her team will spend the summer break: tracking Enid down and bringing her back to her human form.
Goody Addams Goody Addams (portrayed by Jenna Ortega) is Wednesday's deceased ancestor from the 1600s. She is a witch, psychic and ghost that only Wednesday can see in her visions, which reveal that Goody escaped the extermination of Jericho's Outcasts at the hands of Joseph Crackstone, the founder of Jericho, Vermont, whom she later killed, and placed under a bloodlock on Crackstone's crypt using her own blood. Goody also founded the Nightshade Society, a secret society that was dedicated to fighting for equality between Outcasts and Normies which later evolved into an elite social club. Shortly after Marilyn Thornhill uses Wednesday's blood to resurrect Crackstone (a bloodlock can only be broken by the blood of a direct descendent of the person who placed it) and leaves her to die in the crypt, Goody appears and heals her mortal stab wound; but warns Wednesday that after she does so, Wednesday will never see her again.
Larissa Weems Larissa Weems (portrayed by Gwendoline Christie as an adult, Oliver Wickha as a young woman) is Nevermore Academy's shapeshifting principal and Morticia's former roommate when they were Nevermore students. She introduces Wednesday to the school and her roommate, Enid, despite Wednesday's lack of interest. In "Chapter II: Woe Is the Loneliest Number", it is revealed Weems shapeshifted into Rowan after the real Rowan is killed by a Hyde. In "Chapter VIII: A Murder of Woes", she disguises herself as Tyler to trick Marilyn Thornhill into confessing that she's actually Laurel Gates, who manipulated Tyler into killing victims as part of her plan to resurrect Joseph Crackstone, her deceased ancestor from the 1600s, and wipe the Outcasts from existence. After Weems reveals herself, Thornhill kills Weems by injecting her with nightshade poison.
In season two, Weems is succeeded by Barry Dort. Larissa Weems later returns as Wednesday's spirit guide. When Wednesday states that it would be impossible as the Addams family's spirit guides are usually a dead relative, Weems reveals that they are 13th cousins twice removed.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin#Basic_definitions She is annoyed upon learning Dort was picked to succeed her as Nevermore's principal when she did not have him on her list of possible successors; and doesn't plan on honoring her sacrifice at the Outcast Day of Remembrance ceremony. Morticia soon starts to interact with Weems as her spirit guide when she detects her. Following the deaths of Isaac Night and Françoise Galpin, Weems returns to the afterlife.
It is not yet known if Weems will return as Wednesday's spirit guide for season three.
Dr. Valerie Kinbott Dr. Valerie Kinbott (portrayed by Riki Lindhome) is Wednesday's Nevermore Academy-appointed therapist from the local town of Jericho. She is killed by the Hyde after Wednesday suspects her of being its master due to seeing her in the forest with Xavier.
Donovan Galpin Donovan Galpin (portrayed by Jamie McShane as an adult, Ben Wilson as a young man) is Jericho's skeptical sheriff who dislikes Nevermore, is suspicious of Wednesday, and has a history with Gomez dating back to Gomez's time as a Nevermore student.