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Charmian Carr(1942-2016)

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Charmian Carr
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Charmian Carr was born Charmian Farnon on December 28, 1942. She got her name because, supposedly, her father liked the name after reading William Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra". Charmian was the name of one of Cleopatra's maids. She was the second of three daughters. Her mother, Rita Oehmen, had been a vaudeville actress with her brother Eddy, and her father, Brian Farnon, was a musician. She remembers her childhood as very nice, because her older sister Shannon Farnon was always there to watch out for her and their younger sister, Darleen Carr. She moved from Chicago to California when she was 13 and her father left her mother a few years after that. The girls hardly saw their father after that.

She wanted to travel and to visit Europe, little knowing that a movie she would make would be partially shot in Europe. She worked as a doctor's assistant for awhile until a friend of her mother's asked her to audition for the part of "Liesl Von Trapp" in the movie, The Sound of Music (1965). Her fictional family became part of her real family and she considers Nicholas Hammond (who played her brother "Freidrich Von Trapp") her real brother. After she made the movie, she spent much of the next several years promoting the movie around the world.

During a lull in the touring, she met and married Jay Brent and became the mother of two girls. She continued acting for a while, but decided that she wanted to stay home and raise her children. After her children were grown, she began a decorating company and met Michael Jackson, who became one of her clients. Other clients included members of her "Sound of Music" family, including Heather Menzies-Urich and her husband Robert Urich and Ernest Lehman.

She got divorced from Jay in 1991. In the late 1990s, she wrote a book about her life and her experiences being Liesl, called "Forever Liesl".
BornDecember 27, 1942
DiedSeptember 17, 2016(73)
BornDecember 27, 1942
DiedSeptember 17, 2016(73)
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Julie Andrews, Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies-Urich, and Debbie Turner in The Sound of Music (1965)
Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies-Urich, Eleanor Parker, and Debbie Turner in The Sound of Music (1965)
Julie Andrews, Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies-Urich, and Debbie Turner in The Sound of Music (1965)
Anthony Perkins and Charmian Carr in Evening Primrose (1966)
Anthony Perkins, Charmian Carr, and Dorothy Stickney in Evening Primrose (1966)
Anthony Perkins and Charmian Carr in Evening Primrose (1966)
Anthony Perkins and Charmian Carr in Evening Primrose (1966)
Anthony Perkins and Charmian Carr in Evening Primrose (1966)
Anthony Perkins, Charmian Carr, Larry Gates, Dorothy Stickney, and Margaretta Warwick in Evening Primrose (1966)
Charmian Carr in Evening Primrose (1966)
Anthony Perkins, Charmian Carr, and Michael Meola in Evening Primrose (1966)
Anthony Perkins, Charmian Carr, Larry Gates, Dorothy Stickney, and Margaretta Warwick in Evening Primrose (1966)

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Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies-Urich, and Debbie Turner in The Sound of Music (1965)
The Sound of Music
8.1
  • Liesl von Trapp
  • 1965
ABC Stage 67 (1966)
ABC Stage 67
7.5
TV Series
  • Ella Harkins
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
8.7
TV Series
  • Soundtrack("So Long, Farewell")
Salzburg Sight and Sound
6.9
Short
  • Self - narrator
  • 1965

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Actress

  • ABC Stage 67 (1966)
    ABC Stage 67
  • Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies-Urich, and Debbie Turner in The Sound of Music (1965)
    The Sound of Music

Soundtrack

  • MsMojo (2016)
    MsMojo
  • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2017)
    The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
  • Mad Men (2007)
    Mad Men
    • (uncredited)
  • 20 to 1 (2005)
    20 to 1
    • (uncredited)
  • ABC Stage 67 (1966)
    ABC Stage 67
  • Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Charmian Carr, Angela Cartwright, Duane Chase, Nicholas Hammond, Kym Karath, Heather Menzies-Urich, and Debbie Turner in The Sound of Music (1965)
    The Sound of Music
    • (uncredited)

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The Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition
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The Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition
The Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition
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The Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition
The Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collectors Edition
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The Sound of Music: 50th Anniversary Ultimate Collectors Edition
Evening Primrose
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Evening Primrose

Personal details

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    • Charmian Carr Enterprises
    • December 27, 1942
    • Chicago, Illinois, USA
    • September 17, 2016
    • Woodland Hills, California, USA(dementia)
    • May 21, 1967 - 1991 (divorced, 2 children)
    • Rita Oehmen
    • Darleen Carr(Sibling)
  • Other works
    Book: "Letters to Liesl," Arete-USA Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0962798214 with, Jean A.S. Strauss

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    Ran her business Charmian Carr Designs - among her clients was Michael Jackson, who gave her an interior-decorating job because he was a big fan of The Sound of Music (1965).
    • Bright, intensely blue eyes.

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