Cindy Williams appeared in American Graffiti and The Conversation.
19 Facts About Cindy Williams
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Cindy Williams was born in Van Nuys, Los Angeles on August 22,1947.
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Cindy Williams wrote and acted at a church during childhood and later acted in productions at Birmingham High School; she graduated in 1965.
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Cindy Williams attended Los Angeles City College where she majored in theater.
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Cindy Williams accompanied an actor-friend from Los Angeles City College who needed a scene partner for the audition and was accepted at The Actors Studio West, but rarely attended due to acting commitments.
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Cindy Williams picked up important film roles early in her career: George Cukor's Travels with My Aunt ; as Laurie Henderson, Ron Howard's character's high school sweetheart in George Lucas's American Graffiti for which she earned a BAFTA nomination as Best Supporting Actress; and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation.
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Cindy Williams auditioned along with thousands of others, for Lucas's Star Wars for the role of Princess Leia, but Leia was ultimately played by Carrie Fisher because Lucas wished to cast unknowns, as in American Graffiti.
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Cindy Williams met Penny Marshall, first on a double date, and later at Francis Ford Coppola's Zoetrope company.
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Cindy Williams hired them as comedy writers, because "they wanted two women" on a prospective TV spoof for the Bicentennial.
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In 1975, Cindy Williams was cast as a fun-loving brewery bottle capper, Shirley Feeney, in an episode of Happy Days with Penny who played her best friend and roommate Laverne De Fazio.
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Cindy Williams left the show after the second episode of the show's eighth and what would become its final season, after she became pregnant with her first child.
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In 1985, Cindy Williams starred in the ABC sitcom pilot Joanna, which aired as a special on April 30 of that year.
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That same year, Cindy Williams starred in the sci-fi comedy UFOria alongside Fred Ward and Harry Dean Stanton, a movie which was already completed in 1981.
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In 1990, Cindy Williams starred in an unsold pilot for CBS that was adapted from the 1989 film Steel Magnolias.
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Cindy Williams was cast as M'Lynn Eatenton, the role that was originated by Sally Field in the film.
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Cindy Williams guest starred on several television shows, including two episodes of 8 Simple Rules.
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Cindy Williams performed onstage in the national tours of Grease, Deathtrap, and Moon Over Buffalo as well as a regional production of Nunsense.
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Cindy Williams made her Broadway debut as daffy Mrs Tottendale in The Drowsy Chaperone at the Marquis Theatre on December 11,2007, succeeding Jo Anne Worley in the role which was originated by Georgia Engel.
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Cindy Williams was married to Bill Hudson of the musical trio Hudson Brothers in 1982.