Morticia Addams

Morticia Addams is the wife of Gomez Addams and mother of Wednesday, Pugsley and Pubert Addams. She first appeared in Charles Addams’ newspaper cartoons as the stern, aloof matriarch of the family. She was portrayed by Carolyn Jones in the TV series and by Anjelica Huston in the film. Bebe Neuwirth replaced her in the role of Morticia on June 28, 2011.

About Morticia Addams in brief

Summary Morticia AddamsMorticia Addams is a fictional character from The Addams Family television and film series. Morticia is the wife of Gomez Addams and mother of Wednesday, Pugsley and Pubert Addams. She first appeared in Charles Addams’ newspaper cartoons as the stern, aloof matriarch of the family. She was portrayed by Carolyn Jones in the TV series and by Anjelica Huston in the film. In 2010, Bebe Neuwirth replaced her in the role of Morticia on June 28, 2011.

The character was also one of the inspirations for the Disney character Magica De Spell, a villain from the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons, also based on Morticia’s mother, Hester Frump. In 2009, she was included in Yahoo!’s Top 10 TV Moms from Six Decades of Television for the time period 1964–1966.