Catherine Zeta-Jones to Play Morticia Addams for Netflix's WEDNESDAY Series

Catherine Zeta-Jones has joined the cast of the Netflix eight-episode series "Wednesday" from director Tim Burton and showrunners Al Gough and Miles Millar ("Smallville", "Into the Badlands").

Zeta-Jones will star as the matriarch of the Addams Family, Morticia Addams. The cast also includes Luis Guzman as Gomez Addams, Morticia's husband, and Jenna Ortega as the titular character.

Zeta-Jones joins the list of actresses who have previously played Morticia Addams including Anjelica Huston, Charlize Theron, Daryl Hannah and Carolyn Jones.

The series has been described as a supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Wednesday's attempts to master her emerging psychic ability, thwart a monstrous killing spree that has terrorized the local town, and solve the supernatural mystery that embroiled her parents 25 years ago - all while navigating her new and very tangled relationships at Nevermore.

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