American actress and producer, CINDY WILLIAMS known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the television sitcom Happy Days has been confirmed dead.
Cindy Williams dead: The shocking news of the dynamic actress’s death was made public by a press statement issued by her family on Monday, January 30th, 2023.
She died on Wednesday, January 25, 2023.
Williams died after a brief illness, according to a statement released by her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, and obtained by Townflex, shared by the family spokesperson Liza Cranis.
“The passing of our kind, hilarious mother, Cindy Williams, has brought us insurmountable sadness that could never truly be expressed,” their statement read. “Knowing and loving her has been our joy and privilege. She was one of a kind, beautiful, generous and possessed a brilliant sense of humor and a glittering spirit that everyone loved.”
Williams starred in Laverne & Shirley alongside Penny Marshall, who played Laverne DeFazio, as two single working women in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in the 1950s. From 1976 to 1983, ABC aired the sitcom.
The show was one of the most popular on television at the time, and Williams received a Golden Globe nomination for best actress in a TV series for her portrayal of Shirley Feeney.
Williams was born in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Van Nuys in 1947.
She had a long list of film and television credits, including Shirley Feeney in Happy Days and The Conversation in 1974, both directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Friends and colleagues in the industry including fans took to social media platform where they shared their heartfelt tributes.
“Happy Days” star and film director Ron Howard tweeted that Williams’ “unpretentious intelligence, talent, wit & humanity impacted every character she created & person she worked with,” going on to say that the pair worked together on six different projects together. “Lucky me,” he added.
Henry Winkler, who played Fonzie on “Happy Days,” called Williams “a fine and talented human being” on Twitter.
“Oh how I loved Cindy Williams,” Yvette Nicole Brown, who worked with Williams in 2016 when she guest starred in an episode of CBS’s “The Odd Couple,” shared on Twitter. “She was as lovely as I always imagined she’d be.”
Actor Jason Alexander wrote on Twitter: “I did not know Cindy Williams but boy did I adore her work, especially the wacky joyful funny pleasure of watching her Laverne and Shirley days. I pray she had a good life and send my sympathy to those who knew and loved her.”
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