Anecdotes

Auditioned for the role of Princess Leia Organa in La guerre des étoiles (1977), but knew deep down that Lucas wanted a younger actress, which went to Carrie Fisher.

Wrote with Penny Marshall before acting with her.

Favorite actress is Debbie Reynolds.

Former waitress at the House of Pancakes.

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.

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.

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": Graffiti américains (1973) and Conversation secrète (1974).

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

Ex-stepmother of Kate Hudson and Oliver Hudson.

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

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

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

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

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

Her maternal grandparents were from Catania, Sicily, Italy.

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

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

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.

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.