Charmian Carr

  • Name: Charmian Carr
  • Date of Birth: December 27, 1942
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
Mini-bio: Charmian Carr was born Charmian Farnon on December 27, 1942. She got her name because supposedly her father liked the name after reading William Shakespear's Antony and Cleopatra. Charmian was the nam...( read more)e 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 Sharon was always there to watch out for her and their younger sister Darleen. 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) 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 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".
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Replace this image with an actor photoCharmian Carr mini-bio: Charmian Carr was born Charmian Farnon on December 27, 1942. She got her name because supposedly her father liked the name after reading William Shakespear'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 Sharon was always there to watch out for her and their younger sister Darleen. 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) 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 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". She is best known as Liesl Von Trapp in the Sound of Music.

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Nickname(s): Charmy
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Family: Daughter of Rita Oehmen and Brian Farnon.Younger sister of Sharon Farnon. Older sister of Darleen Carr and Eddy Farnon. Sister-in-law of Jameson Parker. Niece of Dennis Farnon and Robert Farnon. Was married to Jay Brent. Mother of Jennifer and Emily Brent. Grandmother of Emma and Derek.
Resides in: Encino, California.
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  • PinkBohemianSweetie
    PinkBohemianSweetie
    An incredible talent that deserves more projects.

    She seems nice! :-D
    posted 505 days ago
  • violette1
    violette1
    you were great in the sound of music and I think that you can sing very well.
    posted 615 days ago
  • abbydisney
    abbydisney
    hey
    I think that you are so cute in the movie
    I like it how you wanted your boyfriend to kiss you and he finally did after the dance
    :-)
    posted 684 days ago
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