LOS ANGELES — Cindy Williams, who performed Shirley reverse Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the favored sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died, her household mentioned Monday.
Williams died in Los Angeles at age 75 on Wednesday after a quick sickness, her youngsters, Zak and Emily Hudson, mentioned in a press release launched by household spokeswoman Liza Cranis.
“The passing of our sort, hilarious mom, Cindy Williams, has introduced us insurmountable disappointment that would by no means really be expressed,” the assertion mentioned. “Understanding and loving her has been our pleasure and privilege. She was one in every of a form, lovely, beneficiant and possessed an excellent humorousness and a glittering spirit that everybody beloved.”
Williams additionally starred in director George Lucas’ 1973 movie “American Graffiti” and director Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Dialog” from 1974.
However she was by far greatest recognized for “Laverne & Shirley,” the “Completely satisfied Days” spinoff that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983 that in its prime was among the many hottest exhibits on TV.
Williams performed the straitlaced Shirley to Marshall’s extra libertine Laverne on the present a few pair of roommates that labored at a Milwaukee bottling manufacturing unit within the Fifties and 60s.
Marshall died in 2018.
