Walking Dead actress Thora Birch exits Tim Burton’s Wednesday series

Deadline is reporting that Thora Birch who played Mary/Gamma on The Walking Dead series has had to leave the Netflix series Wednesday. This series created by Tim Burton for Netflix is being filmed in Romania.

A rep from MGM, producer of the series, told Deadline, “Thora has returned to the States to attend to a personal matter and will not be returning to the production.” We hope things turn out well for Birch and her family.

Burch was able to film the majority of her role as Tamara Novak, dorm mother, to the titular character played by Jenna Ortega. The series follows Wednesday Addams during her time at Nevermore Academy, the school her parents attended.  Novak focuses on all things botanical at the school and is the only onsight “normie.”

Thora Birch Walking Dead

Birch portrayed Mary/Gamma on The Walking Dead series during season 10. She was a member of Alpha’s (Samantha Morton) Whisperers who wore the faces of the undead to camouflage themselves. Mary impressed the lead, and she anointed her Gamma, which would be third in command after Alpha and Beta (Ryan Hurst). She eventually defected from this group and was killed by Beta for betraying them.

Birch has been acting for almost all of her life. She acted in commercials at age four and landed a role on the sitcom Day by Day at the age of six. She would go on to star with Neil Patrick Harris in Purple People Eater, a role for which she won a Young Artist Award. She starred with Elijah Wood in Paradise and as Harrison Ford’s daughter in Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger.

Other roles she is known for include Hocus Pocus, Monkey Trouble, Now and Then, Alaska, American Beauty and Ghost World.  More recently, she starred in the film 13 Minutes with Anne Heche and Amy Smart.

Birch has also starred in two music videos, “Eat You Alive” by Limp Bizkit and “We Are All Made of Stars” by Moby.

Once again, we sincerely hope things turn out well for Thora Birch and her family.