The Brady Bunch: What The Leading Stars Look Like These Days

Conceived by Sherwood Schwartz, ABC's "The Brady Bunch" became one of America's best-loved sitcoms during its run from 1969 to 1974, thanks to its wholesome comedy, relatable scenarios, and surprisingly progressive blended-family setup. It made stars of its nine-strong main cast, including Robert Reed as dad Mike, Florence Henderson as mom Carol, and Ann B. Davis as housekeeper Alice, all of whom are sadly no longer with us.

However, all six kids in the Brady family are still very much alive and kicking more than 50 years on. They've appeared in several "The Brady Bunch" projects in recent years, including the HGTV miniseries "A Very Brady Renovation" and "RuPaul's Drag Race" spinoff "Dragging the Classics." But what else happened to them once the show came off the air? Who struggled to deal with life in the public eye? Who decided to shun showbiz for the world of concrete? And which three cast members recently joined forces to compete on a talent show as a mummified supergroup? Here's a look at their stories and what they look like today.

Maureen McCormick struggled to shake off her "The Brady Bunch" persona, Marcia Brady, following the show's cancellation, with most of her subsequent acting credits restricted to TV guest parts and minor film roles. She did, however, get much more screen time in the '00s thanks to the boom of reality television.

In 2007, McCormick appeared on "Dr. Phil" to settle a family row over the financial and physical well-being of her elderly father; she also lost 34 pounds to win Season 5 of "Celebrity Fit Club." The following year, McCormick competed for a record contract in the CMT talent show "Gone Country" and bagged her own spinoff, "Outsiders Inn," where she opened a Tennessee bed and breakfast. In 2016, she and dancing partner Artem Chigvintsev reached week seven of "Dancing with the Stars." She even ventured Down Under the year previously to compete in "I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here."

Sadly, McCormick experienced battles with bulimia and depression and developed a crippling addiction to quaaludes and cocaine following "The Brady Bunch." In fact, she lost out on a career-reviving part in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" after auditioning while high. Luckily, she got clean in the mid-'80s, thanks to an ultimatum from Michael Cummings, her husband and the father of her daughter, Natalie. "He came to me and said, 'If you ever do this drug again, I'm gone, I'm leaving,'" she told Fox News. "It woke me up."

If you or anyone you know needs help with addiction issues, help is available. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).

Quality, not quantity, seems to have been Eve Plumb's approach in the film world. The actor, who played middle daughter Jan Brady on "The Brady Bunch," has only appeared in a handful of movies since the sitcom wrapped up, but her filmography includes at least three bona fide cult classics.

Indeed, in 1989, Plumb — who once admitted she isn't living off the sitcom's residuals — showed up as Clarence Williams III's wife in blaxploitation parody "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka." Eight years later, she reunited with co-star Christopher Knight to portray a junkie's mom and dad in Gregg Araki's provocative Generation X drama "Nowhere." Then, in 2013, she played against type as a gun-toting matriarch in revenge thriller "Blue Ruin."

Plumb has been a little more prolific on the small screen, guesting on the likes of "Fantasy Island," "Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman," and "The Path," playing the mischievous titular character's mom in kids comedy "Fudge," and showing up in soap operas "All My Children" and "Days of Our Lives." On the stage, she's played the eponymous character in "Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage," appeared in Nora and Delia Ephron's "Love, Loss, and What I Wore," and played opposite John Bolton in the New Jersey staging of "Same Time, Next Year." Here's a look at things from "The Brady Bunch" you only notice as an adult.

Susan Olsen has had a somewhat varied career since playing youngest child Cindy in "The Brady Bunch." On the small screen, she's appeared in the crime drama "Pacific Blue," the soap opera "The Young and the Restless," and the TV movie "The Great Halloween Puppy Adventure." She's also appeared in festive films "Mama Claus, Deck the Halls with Guts" and "Blending Christmas"; published a coffee table book, "Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour"; and competed in Fox's "Gimme My Reality Show." 

Olsen, who also hosted her own Los Angeles radio show, "Two Chicks Talkin' Politics," in the 2010s, used it as an opportunity to spread the word about another issue close to her heart: animal rights. The former sitcom star is on the board of the cat rescue organization Precious Paws. As she explained to Jordan Schaul, she's also very hands-on with its day-to-day operations.

"We foster from our homes, we do pet adoptions on the weekends at our local Petco, we do TNR of cats, we help the public as best we can with advice, and financially when funds are available, we do the best we can to serve the local community with our little grassroots group," Olsen said. As a keen artist, she also paints pet pictures to raise funds for the Los Angeles-based initiative.

Maureen McCormick isn't the only "The Brady Bunch" graduate to have graced the "Dancing with the Stars" stage. Barry Williams, who played her on-screen sibling Greg Brady, competed in the prime-time smash in its 32nd season. He went much further by finishing in eighth place with partner Peta Murgatroyd.

"I'm very proud of how far I went," Williams said (via Entertainment Weekly) immediately after being eliminated. "The reality is I was competing against some people that are more than 50 years younger than I am and holding my own." The star also showed off his vocal abilities in the eighth season of "The Masked Singer." He didn't make it quite as far, though; he was voted out after one performance while dressed up as a mummy in a supergroup that also included his former castmates, Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland. The Californian's reality TV journey continued in 2026 when he headed into the jungle for the 12th Australian season of "I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here."

As with his ventures into singing and dancing, Barry Williams waited a while to become a father. He was almost 50 years old when he welcomed his first child, Brandon, with his second wife, Elia Mary Matt. And he was nearly 60 when he became a second-time dad to daughter Samantha with ex-girlfriend Elizabeth Kennedy. Here's a look at stars from "The Brady Bunch" you didn't know had died.

Christopher Knight, who played Peter Brady, looked set for an enduring showbiz career following the cancellation of "The Brady Bunch." He guested on "Happy Days," "The Bionic Woman," and "CHiPS." Knight also landed recurring roles in the sitcom "Joe's World" and the soap opera "Another World," and shared the screen with George Burns and the fascinating Brooke Shields in the comedy film "Just You and Me, Kid." However, in 1988, he left acting behind to pivot into information technology.

After serving as Martec, Inc.'s account sales manager and New Image Industry's Vice President of Design System Marketing, Knight went on to launch several businesses of his own, including 3-D company Visual Software, interactive education enterprise Kidwise Learningware, and TV tuner firm Eskape Labs. In a chat with HuffPost, he acknowledged the pros and cons of his sitcom past on his entrepreneurship: "As I was starting in my high-tech career, a good deal of it was this recognition thing that I had to just get over in order to conduct business, but it was a good door-opener."

If that wasn't enough, Knight also branched out into furniture with an eponymous line which quickly gained a lucrative share of the market. He also added another string to his bow in 2019 when he joined forces with Phil Viardo, an Emmy-nominated producer, to launch the production company Former Prodigy Media. Their biggest success so far has been "Truelove," a documentary focusing on the genetic condition known as Williams syndrome.

Like many of his "The Brady Bunch" castmates, Mike Lookinland, aka the youngest Brady boy, Bobby, also hid a dark secret after the show's end. He developed an alcohol problem in his 20s and hit rock bottom in 1997 when he was arrested for driving under the influence, a development which inspired him to seek sobriety.

Although Lookinland occasionally popped up on screen — in the Stephen King adaptation "The Stand," the comedy "Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star," and the TV movie "Gambler IV: Playing for Keeps" — most of his post-sitcom career was behind the scenes as a producer and cameraman. But thanks to a library book taken out by his wife, Kelly Wermuth, titled "How to Make Concrete Countertops," he experienced an epiphany that would completely change the course of his career.

"I said, 'Honey, I'm quitting my job,'" Lookinland recalled to HuffPost about the light bulb moment. "I'm going to make concrete countertops for a living." And the actor, who subsequently founded his own company, Just Add Water, has never looked back. "From the age of eight, I learned that nothing in the entertainment industry is real. It's all fake. Your face, your clothes, what you say — it's all a fake. I think I was drawn to something more real that I could do myself." Lookinland also made a surprise return to acting when he joined his on-screen brothers and Susan Olsen in the 2021 TV movie "Blending Christmas" to play the family members of the two romantic leads.

If you or anyone you know needs help with addiction issues, help is available. Visit the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration website or contact SAMHSA's National Helpline at 1-800-662-HELP (4357).