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Susan Olsen was seen out and about!
The Brady Bunch star, 63, made a rare public outing in Los Angeles on Tuesday, July 29. She was spotted driving up to a post office in a white SUV and jumping out to pick up her mail in a casual and comfortable look.
She sported a black T-shirt featuring designs of the popular Japanese egg character Gudetama and burgundy shorts, dark flip-flops and sunglasses. Her platinum blonde hair was loose and on display — along with her signature bangs — as she completed her chore.
Olsen was best known for starring as Cindy Brady in the hit TV sitcom The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974, and after the show, she went on to appear in TV shows and movies like Pacific Blue and Young and the Restless. Her last movie listed on IMDB was 2021’s Blending Christmas.
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The actress has mostly retreated from the spotlight, living a private life and has only been seen at a handful of events over the years.
One of her more recent appearances includes a Brady Bunch cast reunion with her former costars Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland and Christopher Knight at The Chocolate Expo on Long Island, N.Y., in March.
At the event, Olsen reflected in an interview with PEOPLE on the cast’s bond, which has continued 50 years after The Brady Bunch’s final episode.
“We’re all still friendly and get together. I think it’s fun for us to all get together, which we do,” Williams said. “Some of them I like better than my own family … The chemistry — which you can’t fake — is genuine.”
Like family, she also showed up to support Knight and Williams on their The Real Brady Bros podcast, where she revealed never-before-heard stories on The Brady Bunch set, including that she “almost died” while shooting the show’s pilot, ”Honeymoon.”
“I was standing on a makeup chair and something from the catwalk, where they keep all the lights and everything, fell,” Olsen recalled. “It hit the makeup man first, [bounced] off the body makeup woman, and hit me in the face.”
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Despite the injury, she said the crew decided to continue with filming, and I Love Lucy makeup artist Hal King was brought in to help cover Olsen’s bruises before shooting the wedding scene.
“You can tell, if you look at the ceremony and you see the three girls on one side, if you were to zoom in really tight, you can see my face is quite swollen,” Olsen said. “I look different. You can even see it in some of the early publicity shots.”
“The saddest news is that we didn’t sue Paramount, because I would have made more off of that than the show,” she jokingly added.
