Eva Green joins Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ season 3 as long-lost aunt Ophelia, bringing a major power shift to the Addams Family saga

Eva Green is officially stepping into the darkly whimsical universe of Wednesday. The acclaimed actor, known for Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Dark Shadows and her Golden Globe–nominated turn in Penny Dreadful, has joined the hit Netflix series as Aunt Ophelia, becoming a series regular for Season 3.

The announcement confirms long-running theories about the identity of Morticia Addams’ elusive sister, who was only glimpsed from behind in the Season 2 finale. With Green’s casting, Netflix closes the door on speculation that Lady Gaga’s Rosalyn Rottwood might secretly be Ophelia Frump.

Wednesday is a sleuthing, supernatural coming-of-age series that follows Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) through her years at Nevermore Academy, where she grapples with emerging psychic abilities and dark family secrets. Blending mystery, horror and dark comedy, the show reimagines Charles Addams’ iconic character for a new generation. It has become one of Netflix’s most-watched English-language series of all time.

Who is Eva Green?

Eva Green is a French actress best known for her dark, magnetic screen presence and roles in major films and prestige TV. She broke out globally as Vesper Lynd in Casino Royale, and went on to star in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Dark Shadows and the acclaimed horror series Penny Dreadful, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination. Known for her intense, genre-defining performances, Green continues to work across film and television, with several upcoming projects on the way.

Released in two parts across August and September, Wednesday Season 2 climbed to the No. 4 spot among Netflix’s most-watched English-language series of all time, while Season 1 continues to hold the No. 1 position.

A raven like her niece, Wednesday (Jenna Ortega), Ophelia pushed her psychic abilities far past their limits, leading her and Morticia’s mother, Hester Frump (Joanna Lumley), to commit her to Willow Hill Psychiatric Hospital before she ultimately escaped. Long believed missing, she resurfaces when Wednesday reads her aunt’s journal and has a vision of a blond woman wearing a flower crown.

Reading the journal triggered a vision of a woman with long blond hair and a flower crown, a stark visual contrast to Morticia’s signature gothic style. Moments later, viewers saw Hester descend into the basement of her mansion, where a woman in a red dress, shown only from behind, scrawled “Wednesday must die” in blood. That woman is now confirmed to be Green’s Ophelia.

“I’m thrilled to join the woefully twisted world of Wednesday as Aunt Ophelia,” Green said in a statement. “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.”

“Wednesday” remains one of Netflix’s most successful series to date, with Season 1 holding the No. 1 spot on the global TV chart. Based on Charles Addams’ iconic characters, the hit show also features Emma Myers, Hunter Doohan, Joy Sunday, Moosa Mostafa, Georgie Farmer, Isaac Ordonez, Billie Piper, Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo, Victor Dorobantu, Evie Templeton, Luis Guzmán and Fred Armisen.

The series is created and written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who also serve as executive producers and showrunners, with Tim Burton directing and executive-producing for MGM Television.