1. Heather Margaret Brotherston Menzies Urich was a Canadian actress.
14 Facts About Heather Menzies
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Heather Menzies was known for her roles as Louisa von Trapp in the 1965 film The Sound of Music and Jessica 6 in the TV series Logan's Run.
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Heather Margaret Brotherston Menzies was born in Toronto on December 3,1949, to Scottish parents who had left the United Kingdom for Canada after the war.
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Heather Menzies had a younger sister, Sheila, and an older brother, Neil, who died in 2019.
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Heather Menzies was a graduate of John Burroughs High School in Burbank, California, in 1967, and she studied at Falcon Studio's University of the Arts.
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Heather Menzies was cast in The Sound of Music as Louisa, the third-oldest of the von Trapp children, at age 14, with no prior acting experience.
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Heather Menzies sang "So Long, Farewell" and "The Lonely Goatherd" in the film.
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Heather Menzies starred as Jessica 6 in the short-lived TV series Logan's Run.
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Heather Menzies was featured in Playboy magazine during 1973 in a pictorial titled "Tender Trapp", in reference to her The Sound of Music role.
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Heather Menzies was later cast in four television films: The Keegans, James Dean, Tail Gunner Joe, and Captain America.
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Heather Menzies married John Cluett in 1969 and divorced him in 1973.
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Heather Menzies-Urich was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in November 2017.
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Heather Menzies died on December 24,2017 surrounded by her children and family members.
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Heather Menzies was not in any pain but, nearly four weeks after her diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, she had enough and took her last breath on this earth at 7:22 pm.