How Old Wednesday Is In The Addams Family Movies (& Netflix Show)
Wednesday Addams has been portrayed at ages 6 to 16 across various The Addams Family shows and movies. Here’s Wednesday Addam’s age explained.
The many adaptations of The Addams Family, including Netflix’s Wednesday, depict Wednesday Addams at different ages, raising the continual question of how old Wednesday is in the Addams Family movies and the Netflix show. The age in which the two Addams children Wednesday and Pugsley are portrayed varies depending on the project, with the 1960s Addams Family sitcom presenting Wednesday as the 6-year-old younger sibling while the 1990s movies made her the pre-teen eldest child. Considering Charles Addams’ original cartoons didn’t state the Wednesday Addams age, her exact age has been left ambiguous in many of The Addams Family movies and adaptations.
One reason Wednesday’s age varies is that most TV shows and movies depicting The Addams Family’s classic characters focus on Wednesday’s sadistic interest in torture and death — a comedy gold-mine with any age of fictional little girl. The daughter of Gomez and Morticia Addams, Wednesday inherited her parents’ fascination with the macabre, and is notable for her dark and deadpan sardonic wit. No matter what age Wednesday Addams is, The Addams Family almost exclusively depicts her wearing a black dress and white collar with dark braided pigtails. The latest The Addams Family project is Tim Burton’s 2022 Netflix TV series Wednesday. Starring scream queen Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams, the live-action show follows her time as a student at the supernatural Nevermore Academy, where she learns to hone her psychic powers to solve a supernatural mystery that affected her family 25 years ago. Wednesday Addams age in Wednesday is markedly older, so here’s the age of Wednesday Addams in every version of The Addams Family.
How Old Was Wednesday In 1991’s The Addams Family
Wednesday Addams was portrayed by Christina Ricci in 1991’s The Addams Family movie, at which time the actress was 10-11 years old. While 1991’s The Addams Family movie doesn’t explicitly reference the Wednesday Addams age, the screenplay confirms that the character is 10 years old. Since The Addams Family spans over the course of nearly a year (Christmas to Halloween), Christina Ricci’s Wednesday Addams is supposed to be about 11 years old by the time the movie ends.
How Old Was Wednesday In Addams Family Values
The 1993 Addams Family Values movie is set between one and two years after the ending of the 1991 adaptation, which saw Morticia tell Gomez that she was pregnant. Addams Family Values thus begins around 9 months later as it opens with Morticia having another baby, Pubert Addams, who was actually never featured in the original cartoons. In Addams Family Values, Morticia notably remarks that Wednesday is at that “special age” when a girl has only one thing on her mind — which is noted to be homicide. Apparently, that special time is about 12-13 years old, which is the age that both the actress Christina Ricci and the character are during the film. Since Addams Family Values ends exactly one year later on the first birthday of baby Pubert Addams, the Wednesday Addams age is around 13-14 years old in the final scene of the sequel.
How Old Was Wednesday In The Addams Family Animated Movies
The 2019 animated movie The Addams Family also sees Wednesday Addams as the older sister of Pugsley. In this comic-accurate film, Wednesday is revealed to be in middle school, and is hinted to also be about 12 or 13 years old. While Wednesday is supposed to be a pre-teen in junior high during the first animated The Addams Family movie, she was voiced by Chloë Grace Moretz, who was around 22 years of age when the film was released. The 2019 movie was then followed by the critically-panned animated sequel, The Addams Family 2, in 2021. Despite being released two years later, Wednesday Addams still seems to be the same age in the sequel when she presents her project at the middle school science fair.
