Tim Burton is bringing in a ringer to play Aunt Ophelia. Eva Green — who has starred in Burton’s Dark Shadows and Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children — is joining Wednesday season three as Morticia Addams’s long-lost sister, Ophelia Frump. “I’m thrilled to join the woefully twisted world of Wednesday as Aunt Ophelia,” Green told Netflix’s Tudum . “This show is such a deliciously dark and witty world. I can’t wait to bring my own touch of cuckoo-ness to the Addams family.”
Aunt Ophelia has existed in most of the Addams Family media. She first appeared in the comics series as a blonde woman who seems to be wearing a flower crown. Turns out flowers grow out of her head. On the ’60s TV show, Ophelia was engaged to Gomez Addams until he heard Morticia speak French, and

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