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‘Wednesday’: Gwendoline Christie Joins Cast Of Tim Burton/Netflix Addams Family Series

by Dave Elliott

‘Wednesday’: Gwendoline Christie Joins Cast Of Tim Burton/Netflix Addams Family Series (photo: Netflix)

Tim Burton’s upcoming Addams Family inspired series Wednesday has expanded the ever-growing cast to include Gwendoline Christie, alongside a number of new faces, Netflix has announced.

The eight-episode series is described as a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday’s years as a student at the peculiar Nevermore Academy. Wednesday’s 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 of the strange and diverse student body.

Gwendoline Christie is set to take on the role of Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore Academy who still has an axe to grind with her former classmate Morticia Addams. Christie joins the previously announced cast of Catherine Zeta-Jones who takes the role of Morticia, with Luis Guzmán (‘Godfather of Harlem’, ‘Narcos’) playing Gomez, with Jenna Ortega (‘Jane the Virgin’, ‘You’) in the title role of Wednesday.

Christie is, of course, best known for her roles as Brienne of Tarth in ‘Game Of Thrones’ and playing Captain Phasma in the ‘Star Wars’ sequel films. She is next due to star as Lucifer in Neil Gaiman’s upcoming ‘Sandman’ series for Netflix.

Rounding out the family are Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams, George Burcea as Lurch and Victor Dorobantu as Thing, the family’s non-verbal disembodied hand. Additional casting announcements include Tommie Earl Jenkins as “Mayor Walker”, Iman Marson as “Lucas Walker”, William Houston as “Joseph Crackstone”, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as “Deputy Santiago”, Oliver Watson as “Kent”, Calum Ross as “Rowan”, and Johnna Dias Watson as “Divina”.

They join the previously announced cast of Hunter Doohan (‘Your Honor’, ‘Truth Be Told’) as 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’) as 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’) as 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’) as Enid Sinclair. She is Wednesday’s sunny and colourful Californian roommate at Nevermore Academy. Enid hails from a pack of San Francisco Werewolves; Naomi J. Ogawa (‘Skylin3s’) as 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’) as 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’) as 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’) as 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’) as Dr. Valerie Kinbott, a local therapist in the sleepy town of Jericho who takes a particular interest in her newest patient Wednesday Addams; And Jamie McShane (‘Mank’, ‘Bloodline’) as 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.

The series comes from Al Gough and Miles Millar, the duo behind ‘Smallville’, ‘Into the Badlands’, and ‘The Shannara Chronicles’. The acclaimed director of all things creepy, Tim Burton, is set to make his tv directorial debut on the series and will serve as showrunner alongside Gough and Millar. The team also includes 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’).

Wednesday‘ does not yet have an air date, but will premiere on Netflix UK and worldwide. If you want to keep track of this or any other shows, you can add them via our Never Miss system, and you’ll be notified when they get a UK premiere date.

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