Susan Marie Olsen (born August 14, 1961) is an American television actress. She was born in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children, with two older brothers Larry and Christopher (fourteen years older) and a sister Diane. Her brother Christopher was also a child actor, perhaps best known for his role in The Man Who Knew Too Much. She is best known for her role as Cindy Brady on the 1970s television sitcom The Brady Bunch for the f...
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Susan Marie Olsen (born August 14, 1961) is an American television actress. She was born in Santa Monica, California, the youngest of four children, with two older brothers Larry and Christopher (fourteen years older) and a sister Diane. Her brother Christopher was also a child actor, perhaps best known for his role in The Man Who Knew Too Much. She is best known for her role as Cindy Brady on the 1970s television sitcom The Brady Bunch for the full run of the show, from 1969 - 1974.
After landing a number of supporting roles, most notably, Ironside, and Julia, at age seven she was cast as Cindy on The Brady Bunch. She was the youngest actress ever to appear in the series.
As an adult Olsen has expressed that portraying Cindy made peer relations difficult for her as a child. Olsen has said that the episode she dislikes the most is the "tattletale" episode in which Cindy snitches on her brothers and sisters. Because of the episode, she was shunned by her real-life peers who did not...
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