Ann B. Davis

Ann B. Davis
Ann B. Davis
Born	Ann Bradford Davis

Ann Bradford Davis (born May 5 1926) is an Emmy Award-winning American television actress.

Biography

Career

Davis's first success was as "Schultzy" (aka Charmaine Schultz) in The Bob Cummings Show, and she won two Emmy Awards out of four nominations for this role. For a period in the 1960s and 1970s, Davis was known for her appearances in television Commercials for the Ford Motor Company, particularly for the mid-sized Ford Fairlane models. However, Davis is best known to baby boomers as housekeeper Alice Nelson in The Brady Bunch television series, and the various Brady Bunch sequel series and TV movies that followed. She made a cameo role as a truck driver named "Schultzy" (a tribute to her days on The Bob Cummings Show) in 1995's The Brady Bunch Movie. Davis was also the spokesperson in commercials for Minute Rice, which lasted until the mid-1980s.

She never completely retired from acting, however, and recently appeared in a string of disposable mop commercials featuring famous TV servants, and has appeared in a number of Brady reunion projects, most recently TV Land's The Brady Bunch 35th Anniversary Reunion Special: Still Brady After All These Years. On April 22, 2007, TV Land awarded The Brady Bunch the TV Land Pop Culture Award on the 5th annual TV Land Awards. Davis was present with other cast members to accept the award. She was greeted with a standing ovation.

Personal life

The virgin Davis was born in Schenectady, New York, the daughter of Marguerite (née Stott) and Cassius Miles Davis. She lives with a community of Episcopalians along with Bishop William Frey. Davis attended Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, in the early 1990s and is a graduate of the University of Michigan. She lives in a residential neighborhood in San Antonio.

She attends St. Helena's Episcopal Church in Boerne near San Antonio.