Charmian Carr

Charmian Carr was an American actress and singer. She was best known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in the 1965 film version of The Sound of Music. Carr died in Los Angeles on September 17, 2016, from complications related to frontotemporal dementia at the age of 73.

About Charmian Carr in brief

Summary Charmian CarrCharmian Carr was an American actress and singer. She was best known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in the 1965 film version of The Sound of Music. Carr died in Los Angeles on September 17, 2016, from complications related to frontotemporal dementia at the age of 73. In 2014, Carr recorded with the great-grandchildren of the von Trapps on the album Dream a Little Dream by the Von Trapps and Pink Martini.

She owned an interior design firm, Charmian Carr Designs, in Encino, California, and wrote two books, Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl. In 1965, Carr worked with Van Johnson on a pilot for a television program, Take Her, She’s Mine. In 1966, she appeared in Evening Primrose, a one-hour musical written by Stephen Sondheim.