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Susan
Olsen was born to act. She was the third child born to the Olsen
family, and the third to go into show biz. Her older brother,
Larry, was a very active child actor, best known as the kidnapped
son of Doris Day and James Stewart in The Man Who Knew Too
Much. At the tender age of fourteen months, Susan followed
in the footsteps of her older brother and sisters, taking her
first role in a fabric softener commercial.
At age five, Susan was chosen to sing the Monkees tune "I'm
A Believer" on the Pat Boone Show and soon after she
made her dramatic debut on a 1968 episode of Ironside.
She did a couple of episodic television shows like
and Julia and then in 1969 appeared in the Elvis Presley
film The Trouble With Girls.
Susan embraces the role of Cindy Brady, and in the late
'70s, did a commercial for England's answer to the Barbie
doll, called Sindy. She also has returned for most of the
Brady reunions (with the exception of A Very Brady Christmas)
She did do a scene for The Brady Bunch Movie although
as happened to Mike Lookinland, her scene ended up on the
cutting room floor.
Susan has kept herself busy over the years, primarily as
a graphic designer. She was responsible for a line of awesome
glow-in-the-dark Converse shoes in the mid-'80s. She was in
a rock 'n' roll band for a while, and a radio DJ in Los Angeles.
Currently, Susan is a spokesperson for sufferers of migraine
headaches and tours college campuses with an informational
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