Barry Williams

Williams has been married three times. He married Diane Martin in July 1990, and the couple divorced in 1992; his Brady Bunch co-star Christopher Knight served as best man at the ceremony. In January 1999, Williams married Eila Mary Matt, with whom he had a son, Brandon Eric Williams, in January 2003. The marriage ended in divorce in 2005. He also has a daughter, Samantha Rose Williams, born in April 2012 with former partner Elizabeth Kennedy.

In July 2017, Williams married Tina Mahina. The couple made their home in Branson, Missouri, where Williams has been an active local performer and community supporter.

Born Barry William Blenkhorn in Santa Monica, California, Williams decided at an early age to pursue acting. Growing up in Pacific Palisades, he sought career advice from his neighbor, actor Peter Graves, and began taking formal acting and scene study classes in Sherman Oaks. By age 11, he adopted the stage name Barry Williams and secured representation, landing roles in commercials and an educational short titled Why Johnny Can Read.

He made his television debut in 1967 in an episode of Dragnet 1967 and made guest appearances on series such as Adam-12, The Mod Squad, That Girl, and Mission: Impossible, as well as an uncredited film appearance in Wild in the Streets (1968). In 1969, Williams was cast as Greg Brady in Sherwood Schwartz's sitcom The Brady Bunch. As the eldest brother in the blended family, Greg became a central figure in the show's storylines and propelled Williams into teen idol status. During the series run, Williams participated in the Brady cast's musical recordings, tours, and the animated Saturday morning spin-off The Brady Kids (1972-1973).

Following the conclusion of The Brady Bunch in 1974, Williams transitioned into musical theatre. He toured extensively across the United States in productions of Grease, Pippin, West Side Story, The Music Man, Oklahoma!, and City of Angels. In 1988, he made his Broadway debut at the Helen Hayes Theatre in the musical Romance/Romance, taking over the lead male role of Alfred/Sam from Scott Bakula.

In 2001, Williams was fined $52,000 by the Actors' Equity Association for starring as Captain von Trapp in a non-union national tour of The Sound of Music. Williams filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, maintaining that he had resigned from the union prior to starting the production, though the union contended he was still a member when contract negotiations began. Williams was reinstated as a union member in good standing in 2005 after successfully unionizing a non-Equity production of A Christmas Carol.

Williams returned to the role of Greg Brady in numerous spin-offs and reunions over several decades. These included the variety series The Brady Bunch Hour (1976-1977), the television movie The Brady Girls Get Married (1981), the holiday special A Very Brady Christmas (1988), and the short-lived drama series The Bradys (1990). He also made a cameo appearance as a music producer in the 1995 feature film The Brady Bunch Movie.

In 1992, Williams published his autobiography, Growing Up Brady: I Was A Teenage Greg, co-written with Chris Kreski. The book spent multiple months on the New York Times bestseller list and was adapted into a 2000 television movie for NBC, with Adam Brody portraying Williams. In 2000, Williams recorded a comedy parody of Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" titled "The Real Greg Brady." Later television projects included playing manager Dean Strickland in the sitcom Hollywood 7, hosting a 1970s pop culture radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio, competing on The Masked Singer in 2022 alongside former TV brothers Christopher Knight and Mike Lookinland, and competing on season 32 of Dancing with the Stars in 2023.