Person1956
Maureen Denise McCormick is an American actress, singer and author, best known for her role as Marcia Brady on the ABC television sitcom The Brady Bunch (1969–1974). She reprised…
Read and enrich the people, organizations and context referenced in case files.
Explore the cases that include this wiki entry.
No case files include this entry yet.
Investigate this subjectBe the first to comment.
Maureen Denise McCormick (born August 5, 1956) is an American actress, singer and author, best known for her role as Marcia Brady on the ABC television sitcom The Brady Bunch (1969–1974). She reprised the role in several of its various spin-offs and films, including The Brady Kids, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Brides and A Very Brady Christmas (1988).
Maureen Denise McCormick is an American actress, singer and author, best known for her role as Marcia Brady on the ABC television sitcom The Brady Bunch (1969–1974). She reprised the role in several of its various spin-offs and films, including The Brady Kids, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Brides and A Very Brady Christmas (1988).
Maureen Denise McCormick (born August 5, 1956) is an American actress, singer and author, best known for her role as Marcia Brady on the ABC television sitcom The Brady Bunch (1969–1974). She reprised the role in several of its various spin-offs and films, including The Brady Kids, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Brides and A Very Brady Christmas (1988).
In the 1980s and 1990s, McCormick ventured into film and stage acting, with supporting roles in the films The Idolmaker (1980), Texas Lightning (1981), and Return to Horror High (1987). On stage, she starred as Wendy Darling in a 1983 production of Peter Pan and as Betty Rizzo in a 1994 production of Grease. In the 2000s, McCormick was the first actress to portray Rebecca Hotchkiss on the television soap opera Passions, as well as appearing on various reality television series such as VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, CMT's Gone Country (which led to a short-lived spin-off series led by McCormick, Outsiders Inn) and the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!.
In music, McCormick recorded four studio albums with the Brady Bunch cast and toured with them. Her only release as a solo artist to date is a country music album, When You Get a Little Lonely (1995). McCormick's personal life was troubled following her initial period of success on The Brady Bunch, struggling with substance abuse, an eating disorder, and depression, which impeded her career. In 2008, McCormick published an autobiography, Here's the Story, which debuted at number four on The New York Times bestseller list.
McCormick was born on August 5, 1956, in the Encino section of Los Angeles, California, to Irene (née Beckman) and Richard McCormick, a teacher. She has three older brothers: Michael, Dennis and Kevin. She is of Irish and German descent, and was raised in a Catholic family.
At age six, she won the Baby Miss San Fernando Valley beauty pageant. In 1964, she first appeared on national U.S. television, in Mattel commercials for Barbie and Chatty Cathy dolls. Through the later 1960s, McCormick appeared in two episodes of Bewitched—in a season-one dream of Darrin's as one of his witch children named Little Endora, and then in a season-two Halloween episode as Endora herself transformed into a little girl. She also played guest roles on I Dream of Jeannie, Honey West, The Farmer's Daughter, and My Three Sons. In 1970, she lent her voice to a redesigned Chatty Cathy doll. McCormick attended Taft High School in Woodland Hills.
Source: Maureen McCormick (CC BY-SA)
We label verified structured information, user opinions, and AI-discovered relationships separately.
McCormick played the eldest daughter, Marcia, who had five siblings in The Brady Bunch, an American television sitcom about a blended family that aired from late 1969 to early 1974 on ABC, on Friday nights. She had a perky and popular personality. After its cancellation, the series was later rebroadcast in syndication for decades, as children's programming, gathering long-lasting, cross-generational popularity that led to spinoffs and movies. McCormick had a sporadic romance with her Brady Bunch co-star Barry Williams during the original series' run.
McCormick also voiced Marcia in the first season of the ABC Saturday morning cartoon The Brady Kids from 1972 to 1973. She recorded four albums with the Brady Bunch cast and toured with them as well. In 1972, she released her first solo single with the songs "Truckin' Back to You" and "Teeny Weeny Bit (Too Long)". The following year, McCormick recorded an album with her Brady Bunch co-star Christopher Knight, a pop recording titled Chris Knight and Maureen McCormick, which carried both duets and solo tracks. McCormick's second solo single "Little Bird", backed with "Just a Singin' Alone", had mild chart success in the western United States (reaching the top five at KCPX in Salt Lake City). McCormick later performed "Little Bird" on American Bandstand, where host Dick Clark encouraged her to follow a singing career. McCormick released another single in 1973, "Love's in the Roses", backed with "Harmonize".
In 2015, archive footage of McCormick as Marcia was used for an American TV commercial advertising Snickers chocolate bars. The commercial, which debuted during Super Bowl XLIX, features action film star Danny Trejo as young Marcia who (in the context of being hungry) is not acting like herself. After eating a Snickers, Marcia appears as McCormick once again.
Following the cancellation of The Brady Bunch, McCormick spent years addicted to cocaine and quaaludes, which impeded her career. McCormick later stated that she sometimes traded sex for drugs during her early 20s. She flubbed an audition with Steven Spielberg for a part in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), arriving for the audition under the influence of cocaine and having not slept for three days. She developed a reputation in Hollywood for being unreliable, to the point that one producer threatened that she would never work as an actress again. She also dealt with bouts of depression and bulimia.
Despite her struggles with addiction and depression, McCormick did appear in guest roles on numerous television series throughout the 1970s and 1980s, such as Happy Days, Donny & Marie, The Love Boat, Vega$, The Streets of San Francisco and Fantasy Island, along with supporting roles in The Idolmaker and B movies such as A Vacation in Hell (1979) and Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979). McCormick later claimed she failed to get a role as a prostitute or heroin dealer for the movie Midnight Express because she continued to be identified with her Brady Bunch role. She reprised her role as Marcia Brady on the short-lived series The Brady Bunch Hour from 1976 to 1977, and The Brady Brides in 1981, which was spun off from the movie The Brady Girls Get Married (1981). McCormick portrayed Wendy Darling in a touring stage production of Peter Pan, beginning in 1983.
McCormick married Michael Cummings on March 16, 1985. Shortly after getting married, McCormick went through a series of interventions, stints in rehabilitation, and experimental therapies. She was trea
