Zelda Williams

Williams was born in New York City[3] to Robin Williams and his second wife, Marsha.[4] She was born 10 days after her father's 38th birthday. Her father stated that he named her after Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda video game series.[5][6][7][8] Her mother is of Filipino and Finnish descent.[9][10] Zelda, the older of Williams's children by his second wife, has a younger brother, Cody, and an older half-brother, Zachary Pym "Zak" Williams.[11]

She made her acting debut at age 5. At 15, Williams acted in the 2004 film House of D opposite her father and actor Anton Yelchin as the latter's young first love, Melissa Loggia.[4]

In June 2011, both she and her father were featured in a television commercial for the Nintendo 3DS game The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D.[12] On October 25, 2011, she was the special guest host at the London Zelda Symphony Concert at the Hammersmith Apollo, marking the 25th anniversary of the Zelda Series.[13] On November 17, 2011, subscribers to Nintendo emails received an email of her and her father playing the new game The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword for the Wii console.[14] She appears in an interview with Nintendo representatives in which she says that one of her favorite things to do in her free time is play Super Smash Bros. Melee with her friends, always playing as the character Sheik.[15]

She appeared in People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People issue for 2007.[4] She appears in the Wynter Gordon music video for "Buy My Love"[16] and has a cameo in the Cobra Starship music video "You Make Me Feel", alongside her father.

In 2018, Williams wrote and directed the short film Shrimp, which she also starred in alongside Conor Leslie, Paulina Singer, Frances Fisher, and Jake Abel. The film depicts the lives of dominatrices in a Los Angeles BDSM den. Williams later entered into a deal with Gunpowder & Sky to develop the short film into a half-hour series.[17]

Williams has described herself as an avid athlete[18] and video game player, and a fan of her namesake The Legend of Zelda series. She has stated that The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is her favorite game and had voiced support of its release on the 3DS by supporting Operation Moonfall[19] until Nintendo finally announced the game on November 5, 2014.

Williams is bisexual.[20]

She dated actor Jackson Heywood from 2013 to 2016.[21]

In February 2021, Williams announced on Twitter that she lives with aphantasia,[22] the inability to voluntarily create mental images. In the comments, she explained her aphantasia is not only on the visual spectrum, but across multiple senses of the imagination spectrum (auditory, motor, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory imagery). When asked if she could hear sounds or "smell the roses" in her mind, she responded, "Nope. Nada. If I smell it again, I can attach it back with a lot of specificity. Taste especially. I can tell when a restaurant has changed its recipe. But do not recall them alone without the stimulus itself."[23]

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