Ann Bradford Davis (born May 3, 1926) is an Emmy Award-winning American television actress.
Davis's first success was as Charmaine "Schultzy" 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. Davis played housekeeper Alice Nelson in The Brady Bunch television series, and various Brady Bunch sequel series and TV movies. She also played Alice's grim identical cousin Emma in one episode. She made a cameo role as a truck driver named "Schultzy" (a tribute to her days on The Bob Cummings Show) in 1995s The Brady Bunch Movie. Davis was spokesperson in commercials for Minute Rice, until the mid-1980s.
She never completely retired from acting, and recently appeared in several 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 and other cast members accepted the award, and she received a standing ovation.
Davis was born in Schenectady, New York, the daughter of Marguerite (née Stott) and Cassius Miles Davis.. 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 Texas.
