Charmian Carr

 Charmian Carr (born Charmian Anne Farnon; December 27, 1942 – September 17, 2016)

Carr was an actress and singer best known for her role as Liesl, the eldest Von Trapp daughter in the 1965 film version of The Sound of Music. She wanted to travel and to visit Europe, little knowing that a movie she would make would be partially shot in Europe. She worked as a doctor's assistant for awhile until a friend of her mother's asked her to audition for the part of "Liesl Von Trapp" in the movie, The Sound of Music (1965). Director Robert Wise thought Farnon was too long a surname paired with Charmian. After he had given her a list of single syllable surnames, she chose Carr. Her fictional family became part of her real family and she considers Nicholas Hammond (who played her brother "Freidrich Von Trapp") her real brother. After she made the movie, she spent much of the next several years promoting the movie around the world. In 1967, she married a dentist, Jay Brent, and left show business. She and Jay had two daughters, Jennifer and Emily. The couple divorced in 1991. Carr owned an interior design firm, Charmian Carr Designs, in Encino, California, and wrote two books, Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl. Carr died in Los Angeles on September 17, 2016, from complications related to frontotemporal dementia at the age of 73.