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Susan Marie Olsen (born August 14, 1961) is an American actress and former radio personality. Olsen is known for her role as Cindy Brady, the youngest Brady child in the sitcom The Brady Bunch for the full run of the show, from 1969 to 1974.
Olsen graduated from William H. Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California in 1979.William H. Taft High School Yearbook, Atinian, 1979, Woodland Hills, CA, pg. 40
In 2005, VH1 ranked her No. 34 in The 100 Greatest Kid Stars of television and film. In 2007, Olsen and her fellow cast members were honored with the TV Pop Culture Award on the TV Land Awards, one of the few awards The Brady Bunch has ever won.
As a teen, Olsen was the spokesgirl for Sindy doll, made by Marx Toys from the mid-1970s. As an adult, Olsen moved into the graphic design business and in 1998 briefly marketed a brand of glow-in-the-dark shoes for Converse. She also worked as a talk radio at the Los Angeles radio station KNX-FM from 1995 to 1996 with Ken Ober, and co-hosted and co-wrote another radio show with comedian Allan Havey at Comedy World in 2000.
After graduating from high school in 1979, her acting roles were few, save for several Brady Bunch reunion specials. She reprised her role as Cindy Brady in in 1981, and the short-lived CBS drama series The Bradys in 1990. An urban legend claimed that Olsen had become an adult film star. In a late 1990s television interview, Olsen stated that her "porn" connection was that she created space ship sound effects for a porn film called Love Probe from a Warm Planet.
She appeared in episode 26 of Cartoon Network's talk show Space Ghost Coast to Coast, "Switcheroo", with Cassandra Peterson as "Elvira, Mistress of the Dark". Olsen has also been an advocate for migraine sufferers since 1998. She described her headaches on Larry King Live.
In the fourth quarter of 2008, Olsen appeared on Fox Reality's Gimme My Reality Show, in which celebrities compete to win their own reality show. She used this vehicle to make a statement about animal rescue, a cause with which she is deeply involved. On June 6, 2009, Olsen thanked retired game show host and animal rights activist Bob Barker when the Brady actors accepted an honor at the GSN Awards. An animal welfare advocate, she has served on the board of directors of the non-profit organization Precious Paws, a rescue group.
On September 1, 2009, Olsen released the coffee table book that celebrates the 1976–1977 television variety show The Brady Bunch Hour.
In September 2010, Olsen made a guest appearance on The Young and the Restless playing Mrs. Liza Morton, the owner of a preschool.
In 2011, she appeared in season 3, episode 43 of The Biography Channel's reality show Celebrity Ghost Stories.
In July 2012, Olsen was one of a limited number of artists and celebrities invited to show their work in Art with an Agenda: An Exhibit Inspired by Kelly Thomas at the PAS Gallery in Fullerton, California, inspired by the life and circumstances surrounding the killing of Kelly Thomas, a homeless, schizophrenia, 37-year-old man who was beaten by members of the Fullerton Police Department on July 5, 2011. Olsen's piece, "Still Life", showed a half-eaten donut in a puddle of blood beside a lit flashlight.
In December 2016, Olsen was reportedly let go from her radio show, "Two Chicks Talkin' Politics" on LA Talk Radio, after engaging in a Facebook feud with openly gay actor Leon Acord-Whiting. Responding to comments Acord-Whiting had made about her on another station, Olsen unleashed a profane rant against him, accusing him of cowardice. Acord-Whiting accused Olsen of homophobia for the remarks (which included repeated use of the word "faggot") and successfully lobbied to have Olsen fired. Despite this, Olsen told Fox News in 2019 that she has "been the subject of fake news" and "never got fired".
Olsen joined with the other surviving main cast members of The Brady Bunch in the 2019 television series A Very Brady Renovation on HGTV. In 2021, she starred in the Lifetime Christmas movie Blending Christmas alongside her Brady Bunch co-stars Christopher Knight, Mike Lookinland, Barry Williams, and Robbie Rist.
| 1969 | Auditioning Singer | ||
| 1995 | Mailwoman | Scenes deleted | |
| 2009 | Zombo | Frumpy Woman | Short |
| 2015 | Mama Claus, Deck the Halls with Guts | Mama Claus |
| 1968 | Ironside | Tracy Richards | "Barbara Who" |
| 1968 | Julia | Pamela | "Paint Your Waggedorn" |
| 1968–69 | Gunsmoke | Marianne Johnson | "Abelia", "A Man Called 'Smith'" |
| 1969–1974 | Cindy Brady | Main role | |
| 1970 | Lucy Owens | Disney TV film | |
| 1972 | Cindy Brady (voice) | "The Brady Kids on Mysterious Island" | |
| 1972–74 | Cindy Brady (voice) | Main role | |
| 1976–77 | Cindy Brady | Main role | |
| 1981 | Cindy Brady | TV film | |
| 1990 | Cindy Brady | Main role | |
| 1999 | Pacific Blue | Cindy Russell | "Stargazer" |
| 2010 | Liza Morton | 2 episodes | |
| 2012 | Rachel | TV film | |
| 2013 | Holiday Road Trip | Edna | TV film |
| 2013–2016 | Child of the '70s | Nickel Laundry | TV series |
| 2019 | A Very Brady Renovation | Susan Olsen | TV series |
| 2021 | Margie | Paramount Plus TV special | |
| 2021 | Blending Christmas | Valerie | TV film |
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