Florence Henderson

Florence Agnes Henderson is an American actress and singer with a career spanning six decades. She is best known for her starring role as matriarch Carol Brady on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch from 1969 to 1974. Henderson has also appeared on film as well as on stage and hosted several longrunning cooking and variety shows over the years. She has appeared as a guest on many scripted and nonscripted television programs and as a panelist on numerous game shows. She was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2010. Henderson currently hosts her own talk show, The Florence Henderson Show, and cooking show, Whos Cooking with Florence Henderson, on Retirement Living TV .

Henderson, the youngest of ten children, was born on February 14, 1934, in Dale, Indiana, a small town in the southwestern part of the state. Henderson is a daughter of Elizabeth , a homemaker, and Joseph Henderson, a tobacco sharecropper. She is of Irish Catholic ancestry. During the Great Depression, she was taught to sing at the age of two by her mother, who had a repertoire of fifty songs. By the time she was eight, her family called her Florency, and by age twelve, she was singing at local grocery stores. Henderson 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.

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