Lisa Loring was an American actress. She is best known for her work as a child actress playing Wednesday Addams at six years old on the 1964–1966 sitcom The Addams Family.

She was born on Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, a United Nations Trust Territory at the time, which had been administered by the United States. Her parents both served in the United States Navy, and divorced shortly after her birth. She grew up in Hawaii and later moved to Los Angeles with her mother. She began modeling at age three and appeared in an episode of Dr. Kildare, which aired in 1964. Her mother died of alcoholism in 1974 at age 34.

Lisa Loring was best known for her role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family sitcom (1964–1966), the first adaptation of Charles Addams' cartoon strip of the same name published in The New Yorker. She was only 6 years old but her portrayal had a huge impact on a generation of TV watchers.

Her other acting roles included the ABC sitcom The Pruitts of Southampton and the character Cricket Montgomery.on CBS soap opera As the World Turns. She also appeared in three B-rate slasher films: Blood Frenzy (1987), Iced (1988), and Savage Harbor (1987).

Lisa Loring had a stroke caused by hypertension, and died at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, on January 28, 2023, at the age of 64. May she be at peace “In Heaven with the Stars.”