Christopher Plummer and Charmian Carr Starring In Sound of Music

This is Charmian Carr. She is the actress who played ‘Liesl’ in the musical, The Sound of music, starring Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, and Heather Menzies.Is there really anyone out there that can’t sing Rolf and Liesl’s ‘You are 16, going on 17′ song from The Sound of Music? Charmain Carr is forever identified with that character and that song. It’s hard to believe it was forty years ago when The Sound of Music was released into theatres. It remains a favorite on the screen and on stage even today.

Charmian Farnon or Charmian Carr was born on December 27, 1942 in Chicago, Illinois so her age is 66. Charmian is best known for her role as Liesl, the oldest Von Trapp daughter in The Sound of Music where she starred with Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Nicholas Hammond, Heather Menzies, Duane Chase, Angela Cartwright, Debbie Turner, and Kym Karath.

Her parents were Vaudeville actress Rita Oehman and musician Brian Farnon who named her Charmian after a character from Shakespeare’s play Antony and Cleopatra. It was her mom, Rita, who got her an audition for a role in The Sound of Music. Charmian at the time was working and going to college and her mother never even asked her if she wanted to try out for the part.

It seems the director for The Sound of Music thought ‘Farnon’ too long a last name for her, and after handing her a list of single syllable surnames she chose Carr to be her stage name.Charmian says working on the movie was a very happy experience for her, but during the filming of the gazebo scene she slid straight through a window and had to complete the scene in alot of pain.

While publicising The Sound of Music after it’s release, she met and married Jay Brent in May of 1967 and had two daughters, Jennifer and Emily. The marriage lasted until 1991. She now has two grandchildren, Emma and Derek.Charmian Carr also appeared in Evening Primrose, a one-hour musical written by Stephen Sondheim, which aired in 1966. The male lead was Anthony Perkins. She has done little acting since.

Charmian started an interior decorating company whose clients include Michael Jackson and has written two books, Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl.On December 12th, 2007, Charmian Carr made a rare television appearance as a guest on Loose Women where she shared some of her memories of making The Sound of Music with the hosts.

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Christopher Plummer’s Sex Romp Made William Shatner a Star!

Veteran actor Christopher Plummer has reveals in his upcoming autobiography ‘In Spite of Myself’ how he was once replaced by William Shatner to perform ‘Henry V’ when he was hit by a painful stone problem, following a one-night stand in a bar.He writes that he was to perform the role, which finally ended up making Shatner a star, the following day."I woke up alone the next morning . . . (pain) all around my groin and lower abdomen . . . I started to whimper like a whipped dog. ''So this is what syphilis is like?'' I thought. ''I suppose I deserve it, but Christ, how the hell was I to know?''" the New York Post quoted him as writing.The book states that Plummer’s sex romp dislodged a kidney stone, which doctors had to remove through a horrifying procedure with a surgical wire."It began to sink in . . . Shatner, my understudy, would have to go on . . . (It) instantly brought back the pain. I screamed for a nurse who jabbed me with more morphine," he reveals.He recalls that Shatner did not let the big opportunity get away.

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Christopher Plummer (Celebrity In Spotlight)

Arthur Christopher Orme Plummer is a Canadian theatre, film and television actor. In a career that spans over five decades and includes substantial roles in film, television, and theater, Plummer is perhaps best known for the iconic role of Captain Von Trapp in The Sound of Music.

Plummer began his professional career on stage and radio in both French and English. After Eva Le Gallienne gave him his New York debut (1954), he performed in two plays with Katharine Cornell, The Constant Wife, and The Dark Is Light Enough by Christopher Fry, for which he won a Theatre World Award.Plummer went on to star in many celebrated, prize-winning productions on Broadway and London's West End including Elia Kazan's production of Archibald MacLeish's Pulitzer winning play J.B. and the title role in Anthony Burgess' musical Cyrano for which Plummer won his first Tony. A recent Broadway success was as Barrymore for which he won a Tony Award, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award — The Edwin Booth Award, the Boston Critic's Award, Chicago's Jefferson Award, and Los Angeles' Ovation Award as best actor 1997-1998.

Plummer's eclectic career on screen began in 1958 when Sidney Lumet cast him in Stage Struck. Since then he has appeared in a vast number of notable films which include The Man Who Would Be King, Battle of Britain, Waterloo, The Silent Partner, Dragnet, Inside Daisy Clover, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Malcolm X, Dolores Claiborne, Wolf, Twelve Monkeys, Murder by Decree, Somewhere in Time and Syriana. Recent successes include Michael Mann's Oscar-nominated The Insider playing television journalist Mike Wallace, for which he won the Boston, Los Angeles, Chicago, Las Vegas and the National Critics Awards, and Ron Howard's Academy Award winning A Beautiful Mind as well. He played Arthur Case in Spike Lee's 2006 film Inside Man, and the philosopher Aristotle in Alexander, alongside Colin Farrell. In 2004, Plummer played John Adams Gates in National Treasure.Owing to the box office success and continued popularity of The Sound Of Music, Plummer is perhaps best known for his portrayal of Captain Von Trapp.

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