The Brady Bunch Cast: Marcia, Jan, Greg and More Then and Now

Created by Sherwood Schwartz, ABC’s “The Brady Bunch” became one of America’s most beloved sitcoms during its 1969–1974 run. Its wholesome humor, familiar family situations, and notably progressive portrayal of a blended family helped make stars of its nine principal cast members, including Robert Reed as Mike, Florence Henderson as Carol, and Ann B. Davis as housekeeper Alice. Sadly, all three have since died.

The six Brady children, however, remain active more than five decades later. In recent years, they have reunited for projects including HGTV’s miniseries “A Very Brady Renovation” and the “RuPaul’s Drag Race” spinoff “Dragging the Classics.” Their lives after the original series took many different turns: some continued acting, one embraced the technology industry, and three even formed a mummified supergroup for a talent competition. Here’s what happened to the Brady kids and what they are doing today.

After “The Brady Bunch” ended, Maureen McCormick found it difficult to escape the image of Marcia Brady. Most of her early post-series acting work consisted of television guest appearances and small film roles, although reality TV gave her a much larger platform during the 2000s.

McCormick appeared on “Dr. Phil” in 2007 to address a family dispute involving her elderly father’s finances and physical well-being. She later lost 34 pounds to win the fifth season of “Celebrity Fit Club.” In 2008, she competed for a recording contract on CMT’s “Gone Country” and went on to star in the spinoff “Outsiders Inn,” which followed her efforts to run a Tennessee bed-and-breakfast. She also competed on Australia’s “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!” and, in 2016, reached week seven of “Dancing with the Stars” alongside professional partner Artem Chigvintsev.

McCormick also faced serious personal struggles after the sitcom, including bulimia, depression, and an addiction to quaaludes and cocaine. She lost a potentially career-reviving role in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” after auditioning while high. She ultimately became sober in the mid-1980s after her husband, Michael Cummings, gave her an ultimatum. “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.”

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Eve Plumb, who played middle daughter Jan Brady, has taken a selective approach to film work. Although she has appeared in only a limited number of movies since “The Brady Bunch,” her credits include at least three widely recognized cult favorites.

In 1989, Plumb—who once acknowledged that she does not live on the sitcom’s residuals—played Clarence Williams III’s wife in the blaxploitation spoof “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka.” Eight years later, she reunited with Christopher Knight in Gregg Araki’s provocative Generation X drama “Nowhere,” playing the parents of a drug addict. In 2013, she took on a very different role as a gun-wielding matriarch in the revenge thriller “Blue Ruin.”

Plumb has worked more consistently in television, with guest roles on “Fantasy Island,” “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” and “The Path.” She also played the title character’s mother in the children’s comedy “Fudge” and appeared on the daytime soaps “All My Children” and “Days of Our Lives.” Her stage credits include the lead in “Miss Abigail’s Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage,” Nora and Delia Ephron’s “Love, Loss, and What I Wore,” and a New Jersey production of “Same Time, Next Year” opposite John Bolton.

Susan Olsen’s career after playing youngest sibling Cindy Brady has moved across several fields. She appeared on television in the crime drama “Pacific Blue,” the soap opera “The Young and the Restless,” and the TV movie “The Great Halloween Puppy Adventure.” Her other projects include the holiday films “Mama Claus, Deck the Halls with Guts” and “Blending Christmas,” the coffee-table book “Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bunch Variety Hour,” and Fox’s reality competition “Gimme My Reality Show.”

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During the 2010s, Olsen also hosted the Los Angeles radio program “Two Chicks Talkin’ Politics.” The show gave her a chance to promote animal rights, an issue she supports through her work on the board of the cat-rescue organization Precious Paws. In an interview with Jordan Schaul, Olsen said she remains closely involved in the group’s daily activities.

“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. She also uses her artistic skills to paint portraits of pets and raise money for the Los Angeles-based organization.

Maureen McCormick is not the only Brady alum to compete on “Dancing with the Stars.” Barry Williams, who played her on-screen brother Greg Brady, joined the cast for the show’s 32nd season and advanced to eighth place with partner Peta Murgatroyd.

“I’m very proud of how far I went,” Williams said immediately after his elimination, according to Entertainment Weekly. “The reality is I was competing against some people that are more than 50 years younger than I am and holding my own.” He later displayed his singing skills on the eighth season of “The Masked Singer,” though he was eliminated after one performance while dressed as a mummy in a supergroup with former castmates Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland. His reality-TV appearances continued in 2026, when he entered the jungle for the 12th Australian season of “I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!”

Williams also waited until later in life to become a parent. He was nearly 50 when he welcomed his first child, Brandon, with his second wife, Elia Mary Matt. Almost a decade later, at nearly 60, he became a father again when he and former girlfriend Elizabeth Kennedy had a daughter, Samantha.

Christopher Knight appeared poised for a lasting acting career after “The Brady Bunch.” He guest-starred on “Happy Days,” “The Bionic Woman,” and “CHiPs,” then took recurring roles on the sitcom “Joe’s World” and the soap opera “Another World.” He also appeared with George Burns and Brooke Shields in the comedy “Just You and Me, Kid.” In 1988, however, Knight left acting to pursue a career in information technology.

Knight worked as an account sales manager at Martec, Inc. and later served as New Image Industry’s vice president of design system marketing. He eventually founded several companies, including 3-D developer Visual Software, interactive education business Kidwise Learningware, and television-tuner firm Eskape Labs. Speaking with HuffPost, he described his television fame as both an obstacle and an advantage in business: “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.”

Knight later expanded into furniture, launching an eponymous line that quickly captured a profitable share of the market. In 2019, he partnered with Emmy-nominated producer Phil Viardo to create Former Prodigy Media. The company’s biggest success to date has been “Truelove,” a documentary about the genetic condition Williams syndrome.

Mike Lookinland, who played youngest Brady son Bobby, also confronted serious problems after the show ended. He developed an alcohol dependency in his 20s and reached a low point in 1997, when he was arrested for driving under the influence. The incident prompted him to pursue sobriety.

Lookinland made occasional on-screen appearances in the Stephen King adaptation “The Stand,” the comedy “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star,” and the television movie “Gambler IV: Playing for Keeps.” Much of his later work, however, took place behind the camera as a producer and cameraman. His career changed direction after his wife, Kelly Wermuth, brought home a library book titled “How to Make Concrete Countertops,” sparking an idea that would lead him into a new profession.

“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).