In that movie, Cindy Brady was played by Jennifer Runyon. Olsen has appeared in all Brady Bunch reunion movies, with the exception of A Very Brady Christmas in 1988, because she was on her honeymoon with her first husband. Actually, the episode was supposed to be included in Season 1. She also disliked the Season 5 episode "The Snooperstar" as it felt embarrassing for her to play a five-year-old Shirley Temple at the age of twelve. Because of the episode, she was shunned by her real-life peers, who did not understand the difference between actors and their characters. Olsen has said that the episode she dislikes the most is the (second season) "tattletale" episode, in which Cindy snitches on her brothers and sisters. While having no resentments towards the Brady Bunch in general, she didn't like the Cindy character. However, as she got older, the lisp became less desirable and ultimately, she had it surgically corrected.Īs an adult, Olsen has expressed that portraying Cindy made peer relations difficult for her as a child.
Thwartz" about her recent work on "Gunthmoke", which involved riding a "horth" and seeing a "thnake", Sherwood had laughed hard and hired her on the spot. According to an urban legend from the show's creator Sherwood Schwartz, Susan Olsen's lisp was a major factor in her being chosen as Cindy - when during the interview, Olsen told "Mr.
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She also attended Hollywood Professional School in 6th and 7th grade in 1972-1973 with TV siblings Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland.Īfter landing a number of supporting roles, most notably, Ironside, Gunsmoke, and Julia, at age seven she was cast as Cindy on The Brady Bunch. She graduated from William Howard Taft Charter High School (the same school her TV sister Maureen McCormick attended) in the class of 1979. Her older siblings had also all been involved in acting, but all had quit by the time she landed the role on The Brady Bunch.ĭuring childhood, she lived in Tarzana, California, attending Wilbur Avenue Elementary School from grades 1-5. Susan was born in Santa Monica, California, as the youngest of four children, with two older brothers Larry (24 years older) and Christopher (fourteen years older) and a sister Diane.
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