Cindy Williams had two kids, which she welcomed with her first husband. Cindy Williams is the mother of a daughter, Emily Hudson (born 1982) and a son, Zachary (born 1986).
Cindy Williams started her professional career by landing national commercials, which included Foster Grant sunglasses and TWA.
Some of Cindy Williams’s first roles in television, were on Room 222, Nanny and the Professor and Love, American Style.
Cindy Williams had a role in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974). In 1975, Cindy Williams was cast as Shirley Feeney, in an episode of Happy Days.
Cindy Williams has starred in the short-lived sitcom Normal Life, Getting By (1993–94) and also guest starred on two episodes of 8 Simple Rules. Cindy Williams published her memoir Shirley, I Jest! (co-written with Dave Smitherman) in 2015.
Cindy Williams made her Broadway debut as daffy Mrs Tottendale in The Drowsy Chaperone at the Marquis Theatre on December 11, 2007. She appeared with Penny Marshall on the TV series Sam & Cat in the episode “#SalmonCat” (2013).