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Cindy Williams
| Cindy Williams | |
|---|---|
 Williams in Laverne & Shirley | |
| Born | Cynthia Jane Williams (1947-08-22) August 22, 1947 Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1970–present |
| Spouse(s) | Bill Hudson (m. 1982; div. 2000) |
| Children | 2 |
Cynthia Jane Williams (born August 22, 1947) is an American actress, best known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976–1982).
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
3 Personal life
4 Filmography
4.1 Film
4.2 Television work
5 References
6 External links
Early life
Williams was born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles, California, to Francesca (née Bellini) and Beachard Williams. The family moved to Dallas, Texas, when she was a year old and returned to the San Fernando Valley, when she was 10.[1]
She has one sibling, a sister, Carol Ann. She graduated from Birmingham High School in 1965. Her classmates included financier Michael Milken, actress Sally Field, and talent agent Michael Ovitz.[citation needed] She attended Los Angeles City College.
Career
The handprints of Williams in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park
After college, Williams began her professional career by landing national commercials, which included Foster Grant sunglasses and TWA. Her first roles in television, among others, were on Room 222, Nanny and the Professor and Love, American Style.
Having honed her skills at The Actors Studio West,[2][3] Williams picked up important film roles early in her career: George Cukor's Travels with My Aunt (1972); as Laurie Henderson, Ron Howard's character's high school sweetheart in George Lucas's American Graffiti (1973) for which she earned a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress;[4] and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974). She auditioned for Lucas's next project, Star Wars, but lost the role of Princess Leia to Carrie Fisher.[5]
In 1975, Williams was cast as a fun-loving brewery worker, Shirley Feeney, in an episode of Happy Days, alongside Penny Marshall, who played her best friend and roommate Laverne De Fazio. The girls were introduced as female companions of Fonzie (Henry Winkler), and their appearance proved so popular that Garry Marshall, producer of Happy Days and Penny Marshall's brother, commissioned a spin-off for the characters. Williams continued her role on the very successful Laverne & Shirley from 1976 until 1982. Although praised for her portrayal of Shirley, Williams left the show after the second episode of the show's eighth and final season, after she became pregnant with her first child. Williams and co-star Marshall had also been feuding for quite some time, and this had also spurred her decision to leave.[6] They would reconcile a few years later.[7][8] The success of the Garry Marshall series led to a Saturday morning animated series Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour, created by Hanna-Barbera.[9]
In 1990, Williams returned to series TV in the short-lived CBS sitcom Normal Life, and a couple years later, reunited with former Laverne & Shirley producers Thomas L. Miller and Robert L. Boyett to star in their family sitcom Getting By (1993–94). She has guest starred on several television shows, including two episodes of 8 Simple Rules.
Williams has performed onstage in the national tours of Grease, Deathtrap and Moon Over Buffalo, and a regional production of Nunsense. She reunited with her Laverne & Shirley co-star Eddie Mekka in a November 2008 regional production of the Renée Taylor-Joseph Bologna comedy play It Had to Be You.[10]
She made her Broadway debut as daffy "Mrs. Tottendale" in The Drowsy Chaperone at the Marquis Theatre on December 11, 2007, succeeding JoAnne Worley in the role originated by Georgia Engel.[11]
Williams reunited with her Laverne & Shirley co-star Penny Marshall on Sam & Cat, in the episode "#SalmonCat" (2013).[12][13][14]
In 2015, her memoir Shirley, I Jest! (co-written with Dave Smitherman) was published.[15] In the same year, Williams engaged in celebrity branding for the senior citizen service, Visiting Angels.[16]
Personal life
Williams was married to Bill Hudson of the musical trio Hudson Brothers in 1982. The marriage ended in divorce in 2000. Together they have two children: a daughter, Emily (born 1982) and a son, Zachary (born 1986). Williams is a practicing Catholic.[17][18]
In January 2000, an article in the Washington Post critical of military pay raises was written by another Cindy Williams who was working as a senior research fellow at MIT.[19] It had been attributed incorrectly to the actress.[20][21]
Filmography
Film
- 1970: Gas-s-s-s as Marissa
- 1971: Drive, He Said as Manager's Girlfriend
- 1972: Beware! The Blob as Randy's Girl
- 1972: Travels with My Aunt as Tooley
- 1973: American Graffiti as Laurie Henderson
- 1973: The Killing Kind as Lori Davis
- 1974: The Conversation as Ann
- 1975: Mr. Ricco as Jamison
- 1976: The First Nudie Musical as Rosie
- 1979: More American Graffiti as Laurie Henderson Bolander
- 1983: The Creature Wasn't Nice as Annie McHugh
- 1985: UFOria as Arlene Stewart
- 1985: The Joy of Natural Childbirth as Himself
- 1989: Big Man on Campus as Diane Girard
- 1989: Rude Awakening as June Margolin
- 1991: Bingo as Natalie Devlin
- 1997: Meet Wally Sparks as Emily Preston
- 2002: The Biggest Fan as Debbie's Mom
- 2006: The Legend of William Tell as Jillian
- 2012: Stealing Roses as Rose
- 2018: Waiting in the Wings: Still Waiting as Rosie
Television work
- 1971: The Funny Side (6 episodes) as Teenage Wife
- 1973: Love, American Style as Karen Brown (segment "Love and the Time Machine") / Naomi Brubaker (segment "Love and the Face Bow")
- 1974: Hawaii Five-O (6.18 "Secret Witness") as Sue Reynolds
- 1974: The Migrants (TV Movie) as Betty
- 1975–1979: Happy Days (5 episodes) as Shirley Feeney
- 1976–1982: Laverne & Shirley (159 episodes) as Shirley Feeney
- 1981–1982: Laverne & Shirley in the Army (13 episodes) as Shirley Feeney (voice)
- 1982: Mork & Mindy/Laverne & Shirley/Fonz Hour (1 episode) as Shirley (voice)
- 1985: When Dreams Come True (TV Movie) as Susan Matthews
- 1986: Help Wanted: Kids as Lisa Burke
- 1986: The Leftovers as Heather Drew
- 1988: Save the Dog! (TV Movie) as Becky
- 1988: Tricks of the Trade (TV Movie) as Catherine
- 1990: Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (TV Movie) as Rita Sue Bliss
- 1990: Normal Life (13 episodes) as Anne Harlow
- 1990: Menu for Murder (TV Movie) as Connie Mann
- 1991: Earth Angel (TV Movie) as Judith
- 1993–1994: Getting By (31 episodes) as Cathy Hale
- 1994: Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Wandamae
- 1995: Escape from Terror: The Teresa Stamper Story (TV Movie) as Wanda Walden
- 1995: The Laverne & Shirley Reunion as Herself
- 1995: The Magic School Bus (1 episode) as Gerri Poveri (voice)
- 1996: The Stepford Husbands (TV Movie) as Caroline Knox
- 1999: The Patty Duke Show: Still Rockin' in Brooklyn Heights (TV Movie) as Sue Ellen Caldwell
- 2000–2001: Strip Mall (6 episodes) as Herself
- 2000–2002: For Your Love (3 episodes) as Ronnie
- 2002: Laverne & Shirley Together Again (TV Movie) as Herself / Shirley Feeney
- 2003: 8 Simple Rules as Mary Ellen Doyle
- 2004: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Nora Hodges
- 2007: Drive as House Mother
- 2012: Strawberry Summer (TV Movie) as Ruth Yates
- 2013: Sam & Cat as Janice Dobbins
- 2016: The Odd Couple as Vivian
- 2016: A Dream of Christmas (TV Movie) as Jayne 'The Angel'
References
^ "CINDY WILLIAMS". Archive of American Television. Retrieved 18 May 2017..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}
^ "The Cindy Williams Picture Pages". SuperiorPics.som. Retrieved 2012-12-09.
^ Garfield, David (1980). "Appendix: Life Members of The Actors Studio as of January 1980". A Player's Place: The Story of The Actors Studio. New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., Inc. p. 278. ISBN 0-02-542650-8.
^ http://awards.bafta.org/award/1975/film/supporting-actress
^ Moore, Frazier (2004-09-10). "George Lucas and the Trials and Tribulations of a Trilogy: 'Empire of Dreams'". The Beaver County Times. Retrieved 2012-12-09.
^ Brant, Marley (2006). "Triumph and Tribulation". Happier Days: Paramount Television's Golden Sitcoms. New York: Billboard Books. p. 81. ISBN 0-8230-8933-9.
^ http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/10/04/penny-marshall-talks-cancer-abortion-reconciling-with-laverne-shirley-co-star.html
^ http://www.etonline.com/news/165914_laverne_shirley_star_cindy_williams_spills_show_secrets_new_tell_all/
^ "Mork & Mindy / Laverne & Shirley and the Fonz Hour".
^ "Laverne & Shirley" Stars Williams and Mekka to Reunite for It Had to Be You Archived 2008-11-03 at the Wayback Machine. from Playbill
^ "Doing It Her Way: Cindy Williams to Get Drowsy Beginning Dec. 11" Archived 2007-12-07 at the Wayback Machine. from Playbill
^ Bibel, Sara (June 26, 2013). "Penny Marshall and Cindy Williams to Reunite on Nickelodeon's 'Sam & Cat'". TVbytheNumbers. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
^ "'Laverne & Shirley' stars reunite on Nick comedy". Yahoo.com. June 26, 2013.
^ "Laverne & Shirley Stars Penny Marshall, Cindy Williams To Reunite On Nickelodeon's Sam & Cat". Yahoo!TV. June 26, 2013.
^ http://www.today.com/popculture/cindy-williams-reveals-real-reason-she-left-laverne-shirley-t25226
^ "Visiting Angels Tailored in Home Care Featuring Cindy Willams." I Spot.TV. Accessed 5 Aug. 2017. https://www.ispot.tv/ad/7Ut3/visiting-angels-tailored-in-home-care-feat-cindywillams
^ "With Her New Nunsense Touring Show, Cindy Williams Kicks WITH a Habit". The Huffington Post.
^ "Cindy Williams sees a bit of 'Laverne & Shirley' in 'Nunset Boulevard'". The Daily Times.
^ http://web.mit.edu/ssp/people/williams/faculty_williams.html
^ "Our GIs Earn Enough". washingtonpost.com.
^ "snopes.com: Cindy Williams Military Pay Criticism". snopes.com.
External links
Cindy Williams on IMDb
Cindy Williams at The Interviews: An Oral History of Television
Video Discussion with Actress Cindy Williams at New York Film Academy
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