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Born | Olive Marie Osmond October 13, 1959 Ogden, Utah, U.S. |
Years active | 1973–present |
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Spouses | Stephen Lyle Craig
(m. 1982; div. 1985)
(m. 2011, remarried)Brian Blosil
(m. 1986; div. 2007) |
Children | 8 |
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Relatives | Donny Osmond (brother) |
Family | The Osmonds |
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Website | Official website ![]() |
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Olive Marie Osmond (born October 13, 1959)[1] is an American singer, actress, television personality, author, and businesswoman. She is known for her girl next door image and her decades-long career in many different areas, including a freedom-inducing musical performance during the EPCOT Center: The Opening Celebration. Her musical career, primarily focused on country music, included a large number of chart singles with four reaching number one on the Billboard Hot Country Songs charts. Her 1973 single "Paper Roses", released when she was 14, made her the youngest female act to have a number-one country single. Between 1985 and 1986 she also had number-one country singles with "Meet Me in Montana", "There's No Stopping Your Heart", and "You're Still New to Me". As a television personality, she has been a host of Donny & Marie (alongside brother Donny Osmond) and on The Talk. Her acting career includes appearances in television films and Broadway musicals; she has also written several books and helped found the Children's Miracle Network.
The eighth of nine children in the Osmond family, she made her television debut on The Andy Williams Show. At age 13, she established a career as a country recording artist and with her debut single "Paper Roses" (1973). She began recording alongside Donny Osmond, which ultimately turned into the siblings having their own syndicated variety show through 1979. In the early 1980s, the Osmond family lost a majority of their fortune and Marie performed alongside her siblings. She also attempted an acting career, experimenting with the variety show Marie. She then refocused her attention towards the country genre and signed a contract with Capitol Records in 1985. Between 1985 and 1990, she had three number one singles and released several albums including There's No Stopping Your Heart (1985).
In the 1990s, Osmond established her own collection of dolls which were sold on the QVC network. She made her Broadway debut in The King and I in 1994. Between 1998 and 2000, she reunited with Donny for the network talk show Donny & Marie. During this period, she publicly spoke about her struggles with postpartum depression, which were later recorded in her book Behind the Smile: My Journey Out of Postpartum Depression. In 2004, she hosted her own radio series titled Marie & Friends and in 2007 appeared in a season of Dancing with the Stars.
She reunited again with Donny between 2008 and 2019 for a residency at the Flamingo hotel in Las Vegas. The show later produced an album of duets between the pair in 2009. In 2010, she returned with the solo studio album I Can Do This. It was followed in 2016 by the country album Music Is Medicine and then in 2021 by the classical album Unexpected. Osmond also co-hosted The Talk between 2019 and 2020. She also appeared in several Lifetime television films such as The Christmas Edition in 2020.