Beloved TV mom Florence Henderson, who portrayed Carol Brady on the blended family sitcom The Brady Bunch, has died at 82.
She died surrounded by family and friends, her manager, Kayla Pressman, said in a statement late Thursday.
The Brady Bunch ran between 1969 and 1974 on ABC with most or all of the original cast spawned a television movie, a variety show and an album. An attempt to reboot the franchise for a new generation in 1990, The Bradys, was short-lived.
In the show, Henderson and her three daughters "with hair of gold, like their mother" move in with Mike Brady and his three sons, a second marriage for both parents.
While the show was upbeat and sometimes saccharine, the depiction of second marriages was relatively new ground. The sitcom was created by Sherwood Schwartz, who had previously hit with Gilligan's Island.
After the show's main run ended, Henderson was a frequent guest on game shows and acted in guest appearances on shows such as The Love Boat, Murder, She Wrote, Ally McBeal and 30 Rock.
In recent years she appeared on reality shows The Surreal Life and Dancing With the Stars.
Henderson was married twice and the mother to four children, according to IMDB.com.
Robert Reed, who portrayed Mike Brady, died in 1992, while Ann B. Davis — the family's wisecracking housekeeper — passed away in 2014.
The late Robert Reed, right, and Florence Henderson, centre, are shown in an early episode of The Brady Bunch. The children on the show were portrayed by, from left to right, Christopher Knight, Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland, Maureen McCormick, Eve Plumb and Susan Olsen. (Paramount Television/Courtesy of Getty Images)
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