... played Liesl, the eldest daughter of the von Trapp family, who was "sixteen going on seventeen". Her real name was Charmian Anne Farnon, and she was 22 years old when The Sound of Music was released.
Liesl was Charmian Carr's first acting role; she was in college, studying speech therapy and philosophy, when her mother arranged for her to audition for the part. Later in 1965, she worked with Van Johnson on a pilot for a television program, Take Her, She's Mine. She then appeared in Evening Primrose, a one-hour musical written by Stephen Sondheim, which was broadcast in 1966 on ABC Stage 67 (a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, as well as original musicals). The following year, she married a dentist, Jay Brent, and left show business.
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