wednesday cast is the key to understanding Netflix’s gothic hit, because the show works through its characters: a deadpan heroine, a colorful roommate, a famous family and a school full of outcasts. Created by Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, with Tim Burton directing several episodes, Wednesday ran for two seasons and 16 episodes, beginning when Wednesday Addams is expelled after a piranha revenge plot and sent to Nevermore Academy. Here is who plays whom.
Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams
Jenna Ortega plays Wednesday Addams, the sharp-tongued, cello-playing teenager who solves mysteries while refusing to smile about it. Ortega’s deadpan delivery made the character a cultural phenomenon, and her performance carries the show: Wednesday is brilliant, antisocial and secretly loyal, and Ortega balances all three without ever softening the character’s edge. She is the rare lead who can hold a scene with nothing but a stare.
The Addams Family: Morticia, Gomez and Pugsley
Catherine Zeta-Jones plays Morticia Addams, Wednesday’s elegant, devoted mother, whose own Nevermore past shapes the show’s mythology. Luis Guzmán plays Gomez Addams, the passionate, devoted father whose warmth contrasts with his daughter’s cold exterior. Isaac Ordonez plays Pugsley Addams, Wednesday’s younger brother, who arrives at Nevermore in the second season and gets his own arc among the outcasts. Together they give the show its gothic heart — a family that is strange, loving and completely unbothered by being strange.
Nevermore’s Students: Enid, Tyler, Xavier and Bianca
Emma Myers plays Enid Sinclair, Wednesday’s werewolf roommate, whose color, warmth and optimism are the perfect foil to Wednesday’s monochrome gloom; their friendship is the show’s emotional spine. Hunter Doohan plays Tyler Galpin, the seemingly normal barista whose secrets drive the first season’s mystery. Percy Hynes White plays Xavier Thorpe, the brooding artist with a complicated connection to Wednesday. Joy Sunday plays Bianca Barclay, the siren queen bee whose rivalry with Wednesday hides a more interesting character underneath.
The Adults of Nevermore
Gwendoline Christie plays Principal Larissa Weems, Nevermore’s elegant headmistress, whose history with Morticia adds depth to the school’s politics. Christina Ricci plays Marilyn Thornhill, a character whose casting is a deliberate nod to the Addams legacy — Ricci played Wednesday herself in the 1990s films. And Thing, the disembodied hand who serves as Wednesday’s companion and spy, is brought to life by Victor Dorobantu’s hand work, becoming a breakout character in his own right.
The Season Two Additions
The second season widens the world in two directions: deeper into the Addams family, with Pugsley joining Nevermore and the family’s history taking center stage, and wider across the school, as new students and new threats test Wednesday’s already thin patience. The season keeps the formula that worked — a mystery, a monster and a reluctant friendship — while giving the supporting cast more room to grow. For returning viewers, the new faces are the reason to keep watching; for new viewers, they are proof that Nevermore is a place worth revisiting.
Why This Cast Clicks
The show’s casting works because it pairs a perfectly cast lead with a supporting ensemble that each represents a different kind of outcast — werewolves, sirens, psychics and gorgons all sharing dorms. Season one premiered in November 2022 with eight episodes, and the cast’s chemistry is what turned a familiar premise into a global hit. Whether you came for the Addams family or stayed for Nevermore, the characters are the reason to return, and the reason the show’s second season felt like a reunion rather than a sequel.
Ready to enroll at Nevermore? Start with Wednesday from season one, keep an eye on Thing, and meet the Addams family all over again.
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