Charmian Carr was born Charmian Anne Farnon in Chicago, Illinois on December 27, 1942. She was an actress who appeared as Liesl von Trapp in The Sound of Music and in the 1966 Stephen Sondheim television musical Evening Primrose. She stopped acting to raise her children and later ran her own design business. She wrote two books during her lifetime entitled Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl. She died from complications of a rare form of dementia on September 17, 2016 at the age of 73.
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