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Maureen McCormick
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Maureen McCormick is an American actress, singer, and author best known for playing Marcia Brady on The Brady Bunch and its spin-offs.
Biography
Maureen Denise McCormick (born August 5, 1956) is an American actress, singer, and author who gained fame as Marcia Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch (1969–1974). She reprised the role in several Brady spin-offs and films, and recorded four studio albums with the Brady Bunch cast; her only solo release to date is the country album When You Get a Little Lonely (1995).
In the 1980s and 1990s McCormick worked in film and on stage, with supporting roles in The Idolmaker (1980), Texas Lightning (1981), and Return to Horror High (1987), and stage appearances including Wendy Darling in Peter Pan (1983) and Betty Rizzo in Grease (1994). In the 2000s she was the first actress to portray Rebecca Hotchkiss on Passions and appeared on reality series such as VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, CMT's Gone Country (which led to the spin-off Outsiders Inn), and the Australian I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. Her personal life included struggles with substance abuse, an eating disorder, and depression, which impeded her career.
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Books by Maureen McCormick
Here's the story
Here's the Story is McCormick's 2008 autobiography in which she goes behind the scenes of The Brady Bunch, recounting friendships, jealousies, off‑screen romance, and her struggle with drug use and other personal challenges. The book debuted at number four on The New York Times bestseller list.