- Name: Marie Osmond
- Date of Birth: October 13, 1959
- Place of Birth: Ogden, Utah, USA
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Born Olive Marie Osmond to Olive and George Osmond, Marie Osmond was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with her eight brothers Virl, Tom, Alan, Wayne, Merril...( read more)
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Marie Osmond mini-bio: Born Olive Marie Osmond to Olive and George Osmond, Marie Osmond was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with her eight brothers Virl, Tom, Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, and Jimmy Osmond. Since an early age, her brothers maintained a career in show business, singing and performing on national television. Osmond debuted as part of her brother's act The Osmond Brothers on the The Andy Williams Show when she was three, but generally did not perform with her brothers in the group's television performances through the 1960s.
Marie and her brother Donny hosted a variety show on ABC titled the Donny & Marie show from 1976 to 1979.
Marie's first "made for TV" movie was The Gift of Love which originally aired on ABC December 5, 1978. The movie was loosely based on the O. Henry story "The Gift of the Magi." Her co-star in the movie was Timothy Bottoms and she received her first on-screen kiss in this movie.
Osmond had a recurring role on Ripley's Believe It or Not for two seasons (1985-86) where she introduced segments based on the travels and discoveries of oddity-hunter Robert Leroy Ripley.
Along with actor John Schneider, Osmond is the co-founder of the Children's Miracle Network. The singer played her mother, Olive, in the TV movie Side By Side: The True Story Of The Osmond Family. She also starred in the TV movie I Married Wyatt Earp. She garnered rave reviews in the Broadway musicals The King and I (as Anna) and The Sound of Music (as Maria) in the mid-1990s. She returned to television first in the short-lived 1995 ABC sitcom Maybe This Time and then with brother Donny in 1998 to co-host Donny And Marie, a talk/entertainment show that lasted two seasons.
She appeared as herself in the 2001 TV movie Inside The Osmonds, which showed how the brothers' egos, their father's fiscal mismanagement, and the family's quest to build a multimedia empire led to their downfall. The film was produced by her younger brother, Jimmy Osmond.
In 2006, she was a judge on the short-lived show Celebrity Duets.
Osmond had a radio show, Marie And Friends that was canceled after 10 months.
Osmond has been married and divorced twice and has eight children in total from the two marriages. She married her first husband Stephen Craig, a Brigham Young University basketball player, in 1982. They had one child, Stephen James Craig in 1983. Osmond and Craig divorced in 1985.
In May 1986 Osmond married record producer Brian Blosil in a Latter-day Saints wedding ceremony. While married to Blosil, Osmond had two more children: Brianna Patricia in 1997 and Matthew Richard in 1999. They also adopted five children: Jessica Marie in 1987, Michael Brian in 1991, Brandon Warren in 1996, Rachael Lauren in 1989, and Abigail Michelle in 2002.
On March 30, 2007, Osmond and Blosil announced they were divorcing.[1]
In 1999, Osmond revealed that she had suffered from severe postpartum depression.[1] She co-authored a book called Behind the Smile with Marcia Wilkie and Dr. Judith Moore which chronicles her experiences with postpartum depression. In August 2006, it was suggested by several U.S. tabloids that she had attempted suicide. These reports were denied by her publicity team, which claimed she had suffered an adverse reaction to a medication she was taking.[2]
On November 14, 2007, MSNBC reported[3] that Osmond's 16-year-old son, Michael, had entered rehab. The news was confirmed the same night by Osmond to Larry King during a taping of his show Larry King Live.
