Meet The Cast Of Netflix's Wednesday

Outside the Addams family, "Wednesday" will introduce us to a host of new characters. Larissa Weems, the headmistress of Wednesday's new school, Nevermore Academy, is played by Gwendoline Christie. Since appearing as Brienne of Tarth in "Game of Thrones," Christie has had something of a cult following. As she told The Guardian in 2019, "That character has changed my life. I feel emotional."

Since her career-defining role, Christie has appeared in plenty of other films and TV shows, including "Star Wars," "The Hunger Games," and "Top of the Lake," to name a few. 

For Christie, a fan of "The Addams Family," the chance to star in "Wednesday" was a dream come true. "It was a genuinely extraordinary project to be a part of, and also hugely collaborative," she gushed to Daily Dead. "When you work with a brilliant auteur like Tim Burton, you don't necessarily expect to have such an incredibly collaborative experience about how you see your character, how you see the performance, how you see interaction [but that is absolutely what happened]."