She portrayed Morticia as charming and illuminating by a magical glow around her eyes. # The Addams Family- Films in 19Īnjelica Huston played the role of Morticia in the film in 1991 and its sequel “Addams Family Values” in 1993. Decades later, in the version of the 1992 animated series, she was voiced by Nancy Linari.

This version of Morticia also appeared in The Addams Family comic books published by Gold Key Comics. The character of Morticia Addams was featured in the first animated series in 1973, where Janet Waldovoiced her. Morticia likes to ensure that her family validates the traditional Addams way. Weirdly enough, she enjoys feeding an African Strangler carnivorous plant, named Cleopatra. She often enjoys snipping rosebuds and keeping the stems. This was shown in every episode.Īdditionally, she is also inclined to music and has been shown playing a Japanese shamisen. Her ability to attract her husband effortlessly by speaking foreign languages.

Here Wednesday emphasizes that she uses baking powder instead of makeup. # The Addams Family- Television SeriesĬarolyn Jones, who played Morticia in the Addams Family in the original television series portrayed her quite fascinatingly. However, she mostly appeared with the family as one of the few significant members along with Gomez and Grandmama, in the cartoons. The first appearance of Morticia was in Charles Addams’ newspaper cartoons as the frowning and reserved matriarch of the family. The character appeared several times on screen, be it in film, television series, or cartoons as follows. Her attire is generally black Gothic dresses matching her hair, tightly form-fitting, with a hobble skirt. However, apart from being a wife and mother, she is the sister of Ophelia Frump and the daughter of Granny and Grandpa Frump.īeing slim and having extremely pale skin with straight long black hair, Morticia is depicted as a witch. The character Morticia is the wife of Gomez Addams and mother of Wednesday Addams, Pugsley Addams, and Pubert Addams.

Cartoonist Charles Addams created this character in 1933 to portray a queen of the matriarch with a name that suggests “mortician” or “death”. Morticia Addams is a fictional character featured in the Addams Family film and television series.

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