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Florence Henderson
Florence Agnes Henderson (born February 14, 1934) is an American actress and singer, best known for playing the role of Carol Brady in the television program The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974. As of 2010, she hosts the American TV talk show The Florence Henderson Show.
Henderson, the youngest of ten children, was born in Dale, Indiana, a small town in the deep south of the state. Henderson was the daughter of Elizabeth (née Elder), a homemaker, and Joseph Henderson, a tobacco sharecropper.[1] Raised a Roman Catholic, she graduated from St. Francis Academy in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1951; shortly thereafter, she went to New York City, enrolling in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She is an Alumna Initiate of the Alpha Chi chapter of Delta Zeta Sorority.
NOTE: Bio updated on June 14, 2011.
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