In May, we found out Jenna Ortega would be our sleuthing Wednesday Addams. In early August we found out Luis Guzmán was Gomez Addams and two weeks ago we found out Catherine Zeta Jones would be the matriarch of matriarchs, Morticia Addams. Today Deadline announced ten additional series regulars for the upcoming Netflix series Wednesday.
Thora Birch (Ghost World, The Walking Dead) is among the newly announced cast members, and will portray Tamara Novak, “Wednesday’s dorm mother and the only ‘Normie’ on staff at Nevermore Academy with a focus on all things botanical.” If you hear a high-pitched noise, it’s just us screaming with excitement. The newly announced cast and their character breakdowns give us a bit of a glimpse into the world of Wednesday and the Nevermore Academy; vampire and werewolf classmates are giving us slight Scooby-Doo And The Ghoul School vibes and we could not possibly be more “here for it”.
The complete list of cast members announced today are Riki Lindhome (Knives Out, Another Period), Jamie McShane (Mank, Bloodline), Hunter Doohan (Your Honor, Truth Be Told), Georgie Farmer (Treadstone, The Evermoor Chronicles), Moosa Mostafa (Nativity Rocks!, The Last Bus), Emma Myers (Girl in the Basement, Taste of Christmas), Naomi J. Ogawa (Skylin3s), Joy Sunday (Dear White People, The Beta Test) and Percy Hynes White (The Gifted, Pretty Hard Cases).
Here are the character descriptions from the original Deadline article:
Doohan 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.
Farmer will portray 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.
Mostafa will play Eugene Otinger. One of Nevermore Academy’s quirkiest students and president of the school’s bee-keeping club.
Myers will portray Enid Sinclair. She is Wednesday’s sunny and colorful Californian roommate at Nevermore Academy. Enid hails from a pack of San Francisco Werewolves.
Ogawa will play Yoko Tanaka. A vampire with Harajuku-inspired Goth flair and one of the cool kids at Nevermore Academy.
Sunday is Bianca Barclay. One of Nevermore Academy’s most popular students, Bianca descends from a long line of Sirens with a mesmerizing power to persuade.
White will play Xavier Thorpe. A charismatic and supernaturally artistic Nevermore Academy student, who comes from wealth thanks to his celebrity psychic father.
Lindhome 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.
McShane will portray 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.
