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Game of Thrones and Star Wars star Gwendoline Christie has joined the cast of Tim Burton’s Netflix Addams Family series, Wednesday.

She will play Larissa Weems, the principal of Nevermore Academy who still has an axe to grind with her former classmate Morticia Addams (played by Catherine Zeta-Jones). Jenna Ortega plays Wednesday with Luis Guzmán as Gomez.

The rest of the cast has also been announced: Victor Dorobantu will be a series regular as  Thing, the family’s non-verbal disembodied hand; the recurring actors are Issac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams and George Burcea as Lurch; along with Tommie Earl Jenkins (Mayor Walker), Iman Marson (Lucas Walker), William Houston (Joseph Crackstone), Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo (Deputy Santiago), Oliver Watson (Kent), Calum Ross (Rowan), and Johnna Dias Watson (Divina). They join Thora Birch, Riki Lindhome, Jamie McShane, Hunter Doohan, Georgie Farmer, Moosa Mostafa, Emma Myers, Naomi J. Ogawa, Joy Sunday and Percy Hynes White.