American actress Charmian Carr, who played the eldest von Trapp daughter Liesl in the film The Sound of Music, has died aged 73.
Carr died in Los Angeles after complications from a rare form of dementia, her representative said.
The role of Liesl in the 1965 film includes the famous song Sixteen Going on Seventeen.
After leaving the film industry, Carr ran an interior design firm in California. Her mother had arranged for her to audition for the role, although she had had no singing or acting lessons.
Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music was a massive hit, at the time surpassing Gone with the Wind as the highest-grossing film of all time.
Carr later wrote two books on her experience, Forever Liesl and Letters to Liesl. Many fans of the movie took to Twitter to post their memories, clipping up sections of her performance in the film.
Kym Karath, who played Gretl in the film, tweeted: "She has been like a sister throughout my life."
The real life Liesl, Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter of the Austrian family who inspired the film, died aged 97 in 2010.
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