Maureen McCormick

Maureen McCormick was born on August 5, 1956 to Richard and Irene McCormick. Maureen has three older brothers, Michael, Kevin and Dennis. Maureen's acting career started at age seven when a grandmotherly next-door neighbor, who loved Maureen as a little girl invited her to her home. Maureen was a frequent visitor. One day Maureen’s next door neighbor came across an article in the newspaper, telling about the Baby Miss San Fernando contest, and told Maureen's parents that Maureen should enter the Baby Miss San Fernando contest, knowing that she had been a photographer's model since about 18 month of age and seemed to love "hamming it up" and performing. Soon after winning the contest, Maureen had won the lead role in Ray Stark's play "Wind It Up and It Breaks", which was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse. Within a year, McCormick was a popular choice for TV commercials and sitcoms. In addition to ads for Barbie and Kool-Aid, she won a continuing role on the sitcom Bewitched and worked for famed director Elia Kazan in her feature film debut, The Arrangement.

Maureen went on to perform in My Three Sons and Camp Runamuck and provided voice-over recordings for a dozen Mattel talking dolls, including the famous Chatty Cathy doll. Shortly after Maureen then answered "the call," along with hundreds of other child actors, to read for a role in the upcoming "Brady Bunch" TV series. Producer Sherwood Schwartz was suitably impressed and offered her the role of Marcia Brady, which she accepted. McCormick quickly became one of America's top teen role models, admired by millions. When the Brady kids became a singing group on the side, producers noticed her special talent for singing and encouraged her to record a number of solo tracks with some turning up later on the LP, Chris Knight and McCormick.

After touring and recording several albums with the original Brady Bunch cast, McCormick started her solo singing career at the age of 16. Her first solo release was the single "Little Bird," which she performed on American Bandstand for Dick Clark, who encouraged the young star to pursue a full time musical career. Years later, McCormick would revive her interest in singing and recorded a popular country pop record When You Get a Little Lonely with many leading Nashville musicians. McCormick also starred as country sensation Barbara Mandrell in the hit TV movie, Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story. In an interview with Barbara Mandrell she stated about McCormick, "In all candor, at first I thought ... when I see her playing me all I'm going to be able to think about is Marcia Brady, the truth is, when I saw the movie, not once did I think 'Marcia.' I liked that she was strong, kind of self-assured, and not wimpy. Because I'm not."

McCormick has appeared in many feature films such as Skatetown USA, Return to Horror High and Texas Lightning, for which she wrote the song, "Typical Day." She has also appeared in many TV guest spots. She was cast as a regular on Teen Angel, and she has made appearances on Herman's Head, Moesha and The Single Guy. McCormick continues to pursue all aspects of her career, including television, movies, theater, commercials and also voice work in cartoon shows. She appeared as a contestant on VH1's "Celebrity Fit Club," where she was part of the winning team and also set the record for personal percentage weight loss. She also appeared on CMT’s "Gone Country" and became a regular on its spin-off show "The Outsider's Inn." Maureen has also added the credit of best-selling author to her resume with her book "Here's The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice" which was released in 2008. Maureen is happily married to Michael Cummings and together they have one daughter, Natalie. Hide