Zachary Hudson is the son of the late actress Cindy Williams and the musician Bill Hudson, and the one member of his family who has never spoken to a reporter. His half sister Kate and half brother Oliver, Bill Hudson’s children with the actress Goldie Hawn, have talked publicly for years about their relationship with their father falling apart and, more recently, starting to repair itself. Zachary’s side of that relationship has never made the news, mostly because it was never the one that broke.
What follows is what has actually been confirmed about him, sourced and dated, along with what has not.
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Parents, siblings, and the Hudson family tree
Bill Hudson, a member of the pop group the Hudson Brothers in the 1970s, married the actress Goldie Hawn in 1976. Their two children, Oliver and Kate, were born before the couple divorced in 1982. Bill Hudson married Cindy Williams that same year, not long after she finished six seasons playing Shirley Feeney on “Laverne & Shirley.” The timing was tight. His divorce from Hawn, his marriage to Williams, and the birth of his first child with her, Emily, all fell within 1982. Zachary followed in 1986. Williams and Hudson divorced in 2000.
Bill Hudson had one more child, Lalania, born in 2006 to his then girlfriend, Caroline Graham. Across three relationships, he has five children, though only Kate and Oliver built careers that put them regularly in the press.
| Sibling | Born | Parents | Public role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oliver Hudson | 1976 | Bill Hudson and Goldie Hawn | Actor |
| Kate Hudson | 1979 | Bill Hudson and Goldie Hawn | Actress and singer |
| Emily Hudson | 1982 | Bill Hudson and Cindy Williams | Songwriter |
| Zachary Hudson | 1986 | Bill Hudson and Cindy Williams | Musician |
| Lalania Hudson | 2006 | Bill Hudson and Caroline Graham | Not public |
What Zachary Hudson does for work
Zachary Hudson works as a musician. That fact stayed unreported for close to two decades, and when it finally surfaced, it did not come from him. Bill Hudson told Us Weekly in May 2024, during an interview about the family’s improving relationships, that Zachary works in music and that his sister Emily writes songs. Both, he said, had recently attended the release party for Kate Hudson’s debut album, “Glorious,” which came out later that same month.
Beyond that, little else about his career has been reported. Some low quality websites describe him as an actor with film credits, but those details belong to a different person, a stunt performer also named Zach Hudson who died in 2022. Cindy Williams’ son has no acting or film credits of his own.
The 2015 falling out that skipped over him
In 2015, Oliver Hudson posted a childhood photo of himself, Kate, and their father to Instagram for Father’s Day, captioned “Happy Abandonment Day.” Bill Hudson told a British tabloid soon afterward that Kate and Oliver were no longer his children, and that he now considered himself a father of three.
He never named the three, though the math is simple enough. His remaining children were Emily, Zachary, and Lalania, none of whom he was publicly disowning. Zachary was in his late twenties at the time. There is no record of him commenting on any of it, then or in the years since.
Cindy Williams’ death, and the statement her children signed
Cindy Williams died on January 25, 2023, in Los Angeles, at 75. Her family did not release a cause of death beyond describing it as a brief illness. Five days later, Zachary and his sister Emily confirmed the news through a joint statement given to the Associated Press, calling her their kind, hilarious mother.
It remains the only public statement either of them has ever made.
The family’s reconciliation, and where Zachary fits into it
Compared with what is publicly known about Kate and Oliver’s relationship with their father, very little is known about Zachary’s, and that gap has become harder to ignore since 2024. That January, Kate Hudson said on her podcast, “Sibling Revelry,” which she co-hosts with Oliver, that she had started reaching out to her father’s other children after years of barely speaking to them. In April, she told CBS Sunday Morning that her relationship with Bill Hudson was still not really a relationship, but that it was warming up. The following month, Bill Hudson gave the Us Weekly interview confirming Zachary’s career, describing the family as coming back together. By December 2025, Kate was telling The Guardian nearly the same thing again, that the relationship was still just warming up.
All of that got reported because Kate and Oliver’s estrangement from their father had already been public for a decade. There was an audience for the repair because there had first been coverage of the break. Zachary’s relationship with his father has never been reported as broken, which means there has been nothing for anyone to report as fixed.
Is Zachary Hudson married? What is his net worth?
Neither is publicly known. There is no record of a marriage, a partner, or children, and no net worth figure that traces back to a real source, only to the same low quality sites that confuse him with the stunt performer.
Bill Hudson has spent the past two years telling reporters how his relationship with Kate and Oliver is healing. He has never once been asked, publicly, how things currently stand with Zachary. As far as the record shows, that relationship was never broken in the first place, which means nobody has ever had a reason to ask.
