Trivia

Wrote with Penny Marshall before acting with her.

Auditioned for the role of Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977), but knew deep down that Lucas wanted a younger actress, which went to Carrie Fisher.

Former waitress at the House of Pancakes.

Favorite actress is Debbie Reynolds.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television in a double ceremony with Penny Marshall at 7021 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on August 12, 2004.

The passing of Cindy Williams in 2023 leaves only Michael McKean as the only surviving original cast member of "Laverne and Shirley".

Was on the bowling and volleyball teams in high school.

She has appeared in two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant": American Graffiti (1973) and The Conversation (1974).

In 2000, a senior research fellow at MIT, who also has the name Cindy Williams, wrote an op-ed article submitted to "The Washington Post" in which she questioned a proposed 25% pay raise for the military. Many people since then have incorrectly assumed that the person who wrote the article was this Cindy Williams, not the MIT Cindy Williams, and she has been trying to correct that misconception ever since, which has resulted in her receiving criticism and even hate mail.

Directed by five Academy Award winners: Roger Corman, Jack Nicholson, George Cukor, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola.

Attended and graduated from Birmingham High School in Van Nuys, CA (1965). Sally Field and Michael Ovitz were her classmates.

Best known by the public for her role as Shirley Feeney on the sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976).

Ex-stepmother of Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson.

She has appeared in two films that have been nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: American Graffiti (1973) and The Conversation (1974).

She was cremated at Neptune Society in San Pedro, California without a funeral. Her urn was given to her family afterwards. There was no memorial service for her either.

Attended the LACC Theater Academy. Other alumni include Clint Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, Mark Hamill, Donna Reed and Rene Hack.

Met ex-husband Bill Hudson at a celebrity softball game in 1981.

Her maternal grandparents were from Catania, Sicily, Italy.

Was cited as one of the most promising movie personalities of 1973 in John Willis' 1974 Film Annual "Screen World" book.

Attended Los Angeles City College, where she majored in theatre arts.

She beat out Cybill Shepherd when she won the role in Travels with My Aunt (1972). Shepherd wrote in her 2000 memoir that she developed a "irrational hostility" towards Williams.

Attended the "Hollywood Collector's Celebrity Show" at Beverly Garland's Holliday Inn, in North Hollywood, CA.

Sister of Carol Ann Williams.

Ex-sister-in-law of Mark Hudson and Brett Hudson.