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Name: Marie Osmond
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Date of Birth:
October 13, 1959
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Place of Birth:
Ogden, Utah, USA
Mini-bio:
As part of Utah's Osmond dynasty, it seems only natural that bright-eyed and black-haired Marie Osmond, the second youngest of nine children and the only girl, would join the family business and becom... read moree an entertainer herself. She made her debut as a toddler on The Andy Williams Show where her older siblings performed in a weekly segment. Whereas her brothers all found success in pop music, Osmond was drawn to country & western from the age of six and at age 13 became a country & western singer herself with the chart-topping hit "Paper Roses." She toured with her brothers and then appeared on a Bob Hope television special and this led to numerous guest appearances on other shows. It was ABC programming president Fred Silverman who came up with the idea of teaming the still-teenaged Osmond with her older brother, Donny (himself a popular recording artist), to create The Donny and Marie Show in 1975. Beginning each week with Marie sweetly proclaiming, "I'm a little bit country," answered by Donny's "and I'm a little bit rock and roll," the toothy duo would host a series of comedy sketches and musical moments until 1979. The show was a number one hit and to cash in on their popularity the duo was starred in the awful Goin' Coconuts (1978). That same year, Osmond starred opposite Timothy Bottoms in The Gift of Love, the television adaptation of O. Henry's touching Christmas tale The Gift of the Magi. Other television movies included I Married Wyatt Earp (1983). In 1995, she attempted a television series with the sitcom Maybe This Time, co-starring Betty White, but it barely lasted a season. Though she has not had a hit record since the '80s, Osmond continues touring, bringing her four children with her. In addition to performing, she has made an exercise video for pregnant women, published a beauty book, designed a line of clothing patterns -- most notably designs -- and oversees the manufacturing of fine porcelain collector dolls which she hawks on shopping networks and Disney theme parks. Osmond was raised in a deeply religious Mormon family and though she is twice married, stays close to her faith. She is committed to helping children and in the '80s she and actor John Schneider founded the Children's Miracle Network, a charitable organization that helps children's hospitals around the world. As did many others of her generation, Marie Osmond achieved renewed fame via the "reality television" trend that began sweeping the airwaves in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2006, Osmond signed to appear as one of the judges on the FOX series Celebrity Duets, and the following year, ABC tapped her to perform as a celebrity participant on the fifth season of its blockbuster series Dancing with the Stars. On that program, Osmond danced opposite returning participant Jonathan Roberts. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Marie Osmond mini-bio: Born Olive Marie Osmond to Olive and George Osmond, Marie Osmond was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, along with her eight brothers Virl, Tom, Alan, Wayne, Merrill, Jay, Donny, and Jimmy Osmond. Since an early age, her brothers maintained a career in show business, singing and performing on national television. Osmond debuted as part of her brother's act The Osmond Brothers on the The Andy Williams Show when she was three, but generally did not perform with her brothers in the group's television performances through the 1960s. Marie and her brother Donny hosted a variety show on ABC titled the Donny & Marie show from 1976 to 1979. Marie's first "made for TV" movie was The Gift of Love which originally aired on ABC December 5, 1978. The movie was loosely based on the O. Henry story "The Gift of the Magi." Her co-star in the movie was Timothy Bottoms and she received her first on-screen kiss in this movie. Osmond had a recurring role on Ripley's Believe It or Not for two seasons (1985-86) where she introduced segments based on the travels and discoveries of oddity-hunter Robert Leroy Ripley. Along with actor John Schneider, Osmond is the co-founder of the Children's Miracle Network. The singer played her mother, Olive, in the TV movie Side By Side: The True Story Of The Osmond Family. She also starred in the TV movie I Married Wyatt Earp. She garnered rave reviews in the Broadway musicals The King and I (as Anna) and The Sound of Music (as Maria) in the mid-1990s. She returned to television first in the short-lived 1995 ABC sitcom Maybe This Time and then with brother Donny in 1998 to co-host Donny And Marie, a talk/entertainment show that lasted two seasons. She appeared as herself in the 2001 TV movie Inside The Osmonds, which showed how the brothers' egos, their father's fiscal mismanagement, and the family's quest to build a multimedia empire led to their downfall. The film was produced by her younger brother, Jimmy Osmond. In 2006, she was a judge on the short-lived show Celebrity Duets. Osmond had a radio show, Marie And Friends that was canceled after 10 months. Osmond has been married and divorced twice and has eight children in total from the two marriages. She married her first husband Stephen Craig, a Brigham Young University basketball player, in 1982. They had one child, Stephen James Craig in 1983. Osmond and Craig divorced in 1985. In May 1986 Osmond married record producer Brian Blosil in a Latter-day Saints wedding ceremony. While married to Blosil, Osmond had two more children: Brianna Patricia in 1997 and Matthew Richard in 1999. They also adopted five children: Jessica Marie in 1987, Michael Brian in 1991, Brandon Warren in 1996, Rachael Lauren in 1989, and Abigail Michelle in 2002. On March 30, 2007, Osmond and Blosil announced they were divorcing.[1] In 1999, Osmond revealed that she had suffered from severe postpartum depression.[1] She co-authored a book called Behind the Smile with Marcia Wilkie and Dr. Judith Moore which chronicles her experiences with postpartum depression. In August 2006, it was suggested by several U.S. tabloids that she had attempted suicide. These reports were denied by her publicity team, which claimed she had suffered an adverse reaction to a medication she was taking.[2] On November 14, 2007, MSNBC reported[3] that Osmond's 16-year-old son, Michael, had entered rehab. The news was confirmed the same night by Osmond to Larry King during a taping of his show Larry King Live. 
