What Happened to Christopher Knight? Life After 'Brady Bunch'

For five years, ABC viewers were entranced by the adventures of Mike and Carol Brady and their blended family on The Brady Bunch. The show launched the careers of several of its young stars including Christopher Knight. Since the series aired its final season in 1974, fans have wondered what happened to the former teen icon.

Born in 1957 in New York City, Christopher did not initially have dreams to pursue acting when he was a child. Instead, he focused on his academics and had his sights set on a completely different career path.

“Matter of fact, I wanted to actually be a scientist,” the sitcom star said during a November 2019 episode of The Doctors. “Wanted to wear the lab coat. Wanted to have the beakers, the Bunsen burners. That was my dream.”

At just 12 years old, Christopher made his debut as Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch. Prior to his breakout role, he made cameos in a 1967 episode of Mannix and a 1968 episode of Gunsmoke. The television personality has long credited The Brady Bunch for giving him his big break, despite having reservations about the role at first.

“I was a young leading man and wanted to get beyond that, but at the same time, I had the feeling I was being tethered to the show and it was going to create a burden in being considered a serious adult,” Christopher told the New York Post in September 2019. “But it became this thing that I owe everything to … what it really has provided is this wholeness with this community that’s huge. I’m a member of everyone’s family and that engenders this great outpouring of brotherhood and love.”

Though he was a part of one of the most iconic television series of all time, Christopher eventually ended up taking a step back from Hollywood to start his own business. But when it came time to ring in the 50th anniversary of the classic show in 2019, the Bold and the Beautiful alum did not hesitate to share his fondest memories with Closer.

“It’s just a wonderful honor that I have done something that is beholden by so many, remembered by so many and that so many wish to thank us and remember us by continuing to consume the materials that are left behind,” he said at the time. “Beyond that, it might be a reflection of the times as well. … We’re probably in one of those periods right now, wishing that this complicated world that we live in was as simple as life seemed when we watched The Brady Bunch as kids.”

Keep scrolling to find out more about what happened to Christopher after The Brady Bunch.

Christopher’s Career High

Christopher became synonymous with The Brady Bunch after his first appearance on the show. The program’s initial success was largely due in part to its run during the Friday night time slot on ABC. The popularity of the series increased after it was syndicated to other networks like TBS and Nick at Nite years down the line.

“On Friday night, we found a home,” he told Closer in March 2019. “Kids were home and we ended up winning the night for ABC — first time ABC would win a night.”

When his reign on the quintessential cable program came to an end, he appeared in the television movies The Brady Girls Get Married and A Very Brady Christmas. In 1990, the Love Boat actor starred in The Brady Bunch sequel called The Bradys. The series was canceled after six episodes after it failed to measure up against other heavy hitters in the lineup like Full House and Family Matters.

Stepping Back

Soon after each of the Brady series went off the air, Christopher realized that he was missing out on his true calling. Eventually, he got a job working in tech.

“I got a job as a rep in the computer industry selling peripherals,” he told PopEntertainment.com in February 2008. “It was a great learning experience, and I became an expert on the video side of things. I took to it, like a duck to water. It sort of was a passion of mine. I mean, I’m sort of a geek, really.”

His experience working in tech in the early ‘90s led him to start three companies of his own: Visual Software, Eskape Labs and Kidwise Learningware. And while he was happy with his new career path, Christopher still felt something inside pulling him back to television.

“When I left acting, I found myself in a job that didn’t allow me the time to pursue [auditions],” he told EdMovieGuide.com in August 2019. “I don’t know how people do it if they have a corporate job and they go on [auditions] because ultimately, you’re announcing to everybody around you that you’re looking for other work. And then if a series or something came up, goodbye! I realized that I just couldn’t pursue [acting] anymore. But by 2001, I was needing a break from hi-tech, but not necessarily business.”

Christopher made a few television cameos here and there and even made his wrestling debut, competing against The Patridge Family’s Danny Bonaduce in 1994.

Inside His Love Life

As he ventured into other career paths, the reality star also looked for love. He was married to his first wife, Julie Schulman, from 1989 to 1992. Christopher and his second wife, Toni Erickson, wed in 1995 but called it quits in 2000.

The sitcom icon appeared on season 4 of The Surreal Life in 2005. It was then that he met his third wife, Adrianne Curry. They landed their own reality show, My Fair Brady, in 2005 before getting married in 2006. The former couple announced their separation in 2011 and were officially divorced in 2013.

In 2016, Christopher married his fourth wife, Cara Kokenes. In an October 2021 Instagram post, Christopher referred to Cara as his “universe.”

Life After ‘The Brady Bunch’

In 2019, Christopher took part in A Very Brady Renovation, an HGTV miniseries in which viewers got to see the Brady family home get renovated ahead of the holidays. He also starred in the Lifetime Christmas movie Blending Christmas in 2021. His fellow Brady Bunch alums Barry Williams, Mike Lookinland, Susan Olsen and Robbie Rist also appeared in the film.

In January 2022, he announced that he and Barry were starting their own podcast called “The Real Brady Bros” to tell their full story about what it was like being a Brady.