‘Sound of Music’ actress Charmian Carr, who played Liesl von Trapp, dies at 73

Charmian Carr, as Liesl, the eldest von Trapp sibling, in The Sound of Music. Photo: 20th Century Fox

Charmian Carr, the actress best known for sweetly portraying the eldest von Trapp daughter in Rogers & Hammerstein’s The Sound of Music, has died. She was 73.

Carr died Saturday of complications from a rare form of dementia in Los Angeles, Carr’s spokesman, Harlan Boll, said.

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