Cindy Williams arrives to the TV Land Awards tenth Anniversary in New York on April 14, 2012. Williams, who performed Shirley reverse Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the favored sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Los Angeles at age 75, her household mentioned.

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Cindy Williams arrives to the TV Land Awards tenth Anniversary in New York on April 14, 2012. Williams, who performed Shirley reverse Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the favored sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” died Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2023, in Los Angeles at age 75, her household mentioned.

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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 via household spokeswoman Liza Cranis.

“The passing of our kind, hilarious mother, Cindy Williams, has brought us insurmountable sadness that could never truly be expressed,” the assertion mentioned. “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 additionally starred in director George Lucas’ 1973 movie “American Graffiti” and director Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” from 1974.

But she was by far finest recognized for “Laverne & Shirley,” the “Happy Days” spinoff that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983 that in its prime was among the many hottest reveals on TV.

Williams performed the straitlaced Shirley to Marshall’s extra libertine Laverne on the present a couple of pair of roommates that labored at a Milwaukee bottling manufacturing unit within the Nineteen Fifties and 60s.

Marshall, whose brother, Garry Marshall, co-created the collection, died in 2018.

“Laverne & Shirley” was recognized nearly as a lot for its opening theme because the present itself. Williams’ and Marshall’s chant of “schlemiel, schlimazel” as they skipped collectively grew to become a cultural phenomenon and oft-invoked piece of nostalgia.