All the Characters at Nevermore

Jenna Ortega leads “Wednesday” as the iconic daughter of the Addams family, who has returned to Nevermore Academy for her second year after saving the school in Season 1. After spending summer break honing her psychic abilities, she has a vision about her roommate dying, and works throughout Season 2 to solve a new mystery and save her.

The youngest Addams child, Pugsley enters Nevermore as a first-year student in Season 2. Though Wednesday outwardly shows disdain for her little brother, she’s very protective of him — she was only sent to Nevermore in the first place after violently retaliating against his bullies at their old school. After brief appearances in Season 1, Isaac Ordonez reprises the role as a series regular this time around.

Wednesday was already embarrassed by her mother, Morticia Addams, but that only gets exacerbated in Season 2 as the Addams family matriarch moves into a house on campus. Family tensions run high, especially with the addition of Morticia’s own mother, Hester Frump, to the mix.

Wednesday’s father, Gomez Addams, is a family man through and through. His every syllable is in praise of his wife and children — much to his daughter’s chagrin. In Season 2, with both Wednesday and Pugsley at Nevermore and Morticia accepting a new role on campus, Gomez gets to spend more time in the place he and his wife fell madly in love.

Romanian magician Victor Dorobantu will be back on screen in “Wednesday” Season 2 — or at least his disembodied hand will be. He plays Thing, a dutiful companion of the Addams family with unexplained origins. In the series, he lives with Wednesday at Nevermore and helps her spy on suspects and solve mysteries.

The Addams family’s trusted and towering Frankenstein-esque butler, Lurch is a staple of the Addams iconography. Previously played by George Burcea, Season 2 sees Joonas Suotamo in the role. Standing at 6’11”, Suotamo is best known for playing Chewbacca in multiple “Star Wars” films.

Emma Myers’ Enid is Wednesday’s roommate at Nevermore — and her best friend, even if Wednesday wouldn’t use those words herself. Her rainbow-tinted optimism is a frequent foil to Wednesday’s goth, cynical demeanor. Despite their differences, the two are loyal companions. Enid is a werewolf and finally “wolfs out” for the first time at the end of Season 1. By Season 2, her new comfort within the werewolf community changes her life and her social status.

Nevermore’s new headmaster, Principal Dort is loud, flamboyant and brings a penchant for “Outcast Pride” to the school, with no regard for normies. Known for a singular brand of zest and singularity, Steve Buscemi is a fitting choice to play the character and a logical addition to the Addams universe.

It was only a matter of time before “Wednesday” showcased its first zombie. Played by Owen Painter, Slurp is a corpse brought back to life to reveal truths about Nevermore’s past.

Wednesday has no shortage of rivals, but in Season 1, Joy Sunday’s Bianca was one of her fiercest. A siren and the school’s queen bee, Bianca competes with Wednesday constantly throughout Season 1 before they eventually reconcile their differences as Bianca saves Wednesday’s life. They will grow even closer in Season 2, but each will be tested in their own ways.

Curious, sweet and unexpectedly brave, Eugene is one of the few Nevermore students who Wednesday might dare call a friend. With the ability to control bees, he becomes a very powerful defender in the climax of Season 1. In Season 2, he becomes roommates with Wednesday’s brother, Pugsley.

Tyler was left in dire straits at the end of Season 1. Revealed as the monster — a hyde, to be exact — and captured by authorities, he was last seen being transported to the Willow Hill Psychiatric Facility. Though he successfully charmed Wednesday in Season 1, it’s unlikely that he’ll fool her again. But he does hold unique insights into the secrets of the town of Jericho, which could come in handy while Wednesday solves her next mystery.

Georgie Farmer’s Ajax is a Stoner at Nevermore, but not in the way you think. Beneath his beanie is a mop of snakes that will turn one to stone if looked at head-on — he’s a gorgon. He is a love interest of Enid’s, but their relationship enters precarious territory in Season 2 as they both figure out their supernatural abilities.

Bruno is the newest werewolf at Nevermore, whose good looks and charm throw some complications into Enid’s already tense romance with Ajax. He’s played by debut actor Noah B. Taylor.

After saving the school at the end of Season 1, Wednesday returns to Nevermore in Season 2 plagued by unwanted fame in Season 2. The leader of the fan club is Agnes, a new student whose idolization causes Wednesday immense annoyance.

Fester Addams made a late but memorable entrance into Season 1 as Wednesday’s weird, twisted and conniving uncle. Fred Armisen reprises the role in Season 2, helping Wednesday solve her cases with his electric superpowers and off-kilter sense of humor.

Hester Frump is Morticia Addams’ mother and Wednesday’s grandmother. Though her character dates back to the original Addams Family comics, she will make her Netflix debut in “Wednesday” Season 2, played by Joanna Lumley. The rich businesswoman behind Frump Mortuaries, she is cold and ruthless, making her one of the rare family members that helps Wednesday feel understood.

A straight-shooting cop who follows the evidence, Sheriff Galpin is a normie who butts heads with Wednesday, wishing the teenage girl would stay out of his way. Nevertheless, the two are both invested in keeping Jericho safe and cracking its paranormal cases, so they find themselves collaborating. But after his son was revealed to be a monster at the end of Season 1, he loses his job as well as the town’s trust. In Season 2, he plays a crucial role in guiding Wednesday towards the newest mystery she needs to solve.

Ron Kruger is a Phoenix Cadet Master who brings his troop to the same campground as the Nevermore Academy retreat. Refusing to back down, he and Principal Dort pit their students against each other in a normie vs. outcast battle that determines which group gets to stay.

Played by Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Sheriff Santiago takes the reins from Sheriff Galpin as the town’s new first line of defense. Smart and driven, Santiago wants to do right by the community and, unlike her predecessor, is willing to work with Wednesday to solve Jericho’s most recent mysteries.

Dr. Fairburn is the head doctor at the Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital, an institution that’s run by normies but purports to help troubled outcasts. She’s the author of the book “Unlocking the Outcast Mind” and is considered an expert in outcast mental health, but most outcasts treat her and the hospital with suspicion.

Judi is Dr. Fairburn’s assistant who’s typically all smiles, but she seems to take Wednesday’s disdain for Willow Hill and its medical professionals very personally.

Billie Piper joins “Wednesday” Season 2 as Miss Capri, Nevermore’s new music teacher, who attempts to nurture Wednesday’s musical abilities while also offering guidance to Enid as a fellow werewolf. A gifted musician from an early age herself, she brings some history to Nevermore, and perhaps a few secrets.

Christopher Lloyd joins “Wednesday” Season 2 as Professor Orloff, the oldest and strictest teacher at Nevermore, whose head is preserved and encased in a jar. The casting marks a return to the Addams Family universe for Lloyd, as he previously played Uncle Fester in the 1991 film “The Addams Family” and reprised the role in 1993’s “Addams Family Values.”

Haley Joel Osment guest stars in the first episode of “Wednesday” Season 2 as a serial killer called the Kansas City Scalper, who Wednesday has fixated on since she was a child. In a sneak peek released in May, he appears unkempt and unhinged, wielding a creepy doll that looks eerily similar to our titular heroine — who, predictably, hunts him down.

Gabrielle is the mother of Nevermore it-girl Bianca. The two were at odds in Season 1, with Gabrielle trying to pull Bianca back into the Morning Song cult, but by Season 2, Bianca is working hard to protect her mother’s safety.

After her tragic death in Season 1 , Weems reappears from beyond the grave at the beginning of Season 2 Part 2. She’s become Wednesday’s new spirit guide, a job that can typically only be done by a relative — like Goody Addams did in Season 1 — but Weems reveals a surprise loophole: She and Wednesday are 13th cousins, twice removed. Throughout the end of the season, Weems serves Wednesday some hard truths about what she needs to do to get her investigation and her psychic ability back on track. Hint: She’s going to have to do something about her tense relationship with her mother.

Lady Gaga’s long-anticipated cameo is finally revealed in Part 2: She plays late Nevermore professor Rosaline Rotwood, a legendary psychic who Wednesday’s grandmother, Hester Frump, idolized during her time as a student. At a standstill in her investigation, Wednesday visits Rotwood’s grave in hopes of accessing her own psychic powers again. 

The quiet, sweet-looking woman Wednesday liberated from Willow Hill at the end of Season 1 Part 1 isn’t as harmless as she seems. It’s revealed that she’s Francoise Galpin, wife of the late Sheriff Galpin and, most importantly, Tyler’s mother and fellow hyde. For years, everyone has thought she was dead, but she had actually been kidnapped and experimented on by Augustus Stonehurst as part of his plot to take outcasts’ abilities away and give them to normies. After escaping the asylum, Francoise runs into Morticia, her former Nevermore classmate, who agrees not to call the police as long as she takes Tyler and leaves Jericho for good. But as with any family story in “Wednesday,” things get a bit more complicated than that.

Part 2 gives a closer look at the history of the Morning Song cult, which Bianca grew up in because of her mother’s relationship and eventual marriage to its leader, Gideon Sterling, whose real name is Arnold Hunt. 

Yes, Owen Painter’s name is on this list twice. That’s because Slurp, the lovable-if-violent zombie reanimated by Pugsley in Part 1, has his full identity revealed in Part 2. Just like Ajax said, he was a brilliant Nevermore student who saved his own life by designing himself a clockwork heart to replace his failing one before being killed by the explosion of another of his inventions. His name was Isaac Night, and his family history is intricately tied up with Pugsley and Wednesday’s.