Wednesday has been making headlines from the start. The live action series from Netflix and Tim Burton, based on the classic characters from The Addams Family, has given us some major casting announcements. From Wednesday Addams herself, to finding out that Catherine Zeta Jones and Luis Gomez would play Morticia and Gomez respectively. Now it's time to find out who else we will see in this eight episode series.
Here are the rest of the series regulars:
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Naomi J. Ogawa (Skylin3s) will play Yoko Tanaka. A vampire with Harajuku-inspired Goth flair and one of the cool kids at Nevermore Academy.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. (Pictured above.)
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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.
There are definitely plenty of names and/or faces that you likely recognize on that list. We also get a bit of insight into their characters, as well. What beef could Sheriff Galpin have with Gomez from so many years ago? That's one thing that jumped out at me right away. It should be interesting to see how this affects Wednesday in this next chapter of her life.
Wednesday does not have a premiere date just yet. If you want more information about the series, go here. I'm sure you're ready to add it to your Netflix list though, so you can do that at www.netflix.com/wednesday. We'll have more updates as they become available.
Photo Credit: Elisabeth Caren/Provided by Netflix