10 years on from Robin Williams' death, this is what his children's lives look like now.

To the world, Robin Williams was a comedy genius, star of movies from Good Morning, Vietnam to Mrs Doubtfire to Aladdin. To Zak, Zelda and Cody Williams, he was Dad.

A year before he died, Robin explained how he used to read the entire Narnia series out loud to his kids when they were little.

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"I was once reading to Zelda, and she said, 'Don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself,'" he wrote in a Reddit Ask Me Anything. "So I did, I just read it straight, and she said, 'That's better.'"

Zachary, born in 1983, was Robin's son with his first wife Valerie Velardi. Robin and Valerie divorced in 1988, and the following year, Robin married Zak's nanny, Marsha Garces. At the wedding, Marsha was six months pregnant with Robin's baby. The baby was a girl, and Robin and Marsha named her Zelda, after the character from the video game The Legend Of Zelda.

(Left) Robin Williams with Valerie Velardi. (Right) Robin Williams with Marsha Garces. Image: Getty.

"It wasn't actually me, it was my son Zachary who came up with the idea," Robin wrote on Reddit. "But once Marsha and I heard it, we said it was great."

Son Cody arrived two years after Zelda.

By the time Robin died in 2014, suffering from depression, anxiety and other mental health issues brought on by undiagnosed Lewy body dementia, he was married to third wife Susan Schneider. Susan, Marsha, Zak, Zelda and Cody all released loving tributes to Robin.

"My last day with him was his birthday, and I will be forever grateful that my brothers and I got to spend that time alone with him, sharing gifts and laughter," Zelda wrote. "He was always warm, even in his darkest moments."

10 years after Robin's passing shocked the world, what are his kids up to?

Zak

In his twenties, Zak dabbled in the world of showbiz, with roles in the movie The Graduates (2008) and the telemovie Slow Your Roll: Extreme Comedy. But Robin's death hit him hard.

"After my dad died by suicide in 2014, I found myself extremely anxious, depressed, and traumatised," he told Forbes.

Robin Williams with first son, Zak. Image: IMDb/Getty.

Zak began "self-medicating" with alcohol, but said the alcohol abuse left him feeling numb and disconnected, so he decided to get sober. It was then he met an "amazing" woman, Olivia June. The two of them worked together to develop an "anxiety and stress support product", Mood Chews, which they sell, with a percentage of sales going to mental health organisation Bring Change To Mind.

Along the way they also got married and had two kids, McLaurin aka Mickey (McLaurin was Robin's middle name) and Zola, continuing the family's "Z" theme in naming.

Zak, who has been sober for seven years, now works as a mental health advocate. 

"There's undue suffering relating to not knowing the full toolkit at hand that you can use to manage mental wellbeing," he told CBS Los Angeles last year. 

He's now putting his "own perspective" on the mental health issues that contributed to his father's death. 

"That's how I'm seeking to continue what we like to do in our family, which is [to] be helpful and help people find healing and happiness," he says. 

Zak paid tribute to his late father on Instagram on the 10th anniversary of his passing, sharing a throwback photo of him with the caption: "Dad, it’s hard to believe it’s been 10 years.

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"Today, I’m reflecting on the immense love you shared with all of us—your family, your friends, and everyone you met," he wrote.

"You continue to inspire me every single day to do whatever I can to help create a more connected and loving world for our family.

"Love you forever."

Zelda

With her dad by her side, Zelda started acting at age five, playing Robin's on-screen daughter in In Search Of Dr Seuss and a little girl in a ballet class in Nine Months.

Robin Williams with daughter, Zelda. Image: Getty.

In her twenties she scored a recurring role in Teen Wolf and started dating former Home And Away star Jackson Heywood, who appeared in the same show. But as a teenager, she never felt she fit the image of an actor's child – "I was really awkward and short and had this low voice," she told E! News – and even as an adult, she felt she missed out on acting gigs because she wasn't "enough".

After her father's death, Zelda continued getting small acting roles, in shows including Criminal Minds and Jane The Virgin, but she started working towards her real dream of becoming a writer and director of films, particularly horror films.

"What I want to do there aren't women directing," she explained to E! News. "So there are no programs for women to take other women under their wing. I had to go to men and be like, 'Hey, you're in a privileged position. Will you help me out?"

In 2018, she wrote and directed the short film Shrimp, set in a BDSM den. In 2023, she directed her first feature film, horror comedy Lisa Frankenstein – or, as she likes to call it, a "zomb-com" – written by Diablo Cody and starring Kathryn Newton and Cole Sprouse. Zelda posted on Instagram that making it was "one of the most joyful adventures of my life".

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The film was released in February, 2024, and starred actors Cole Sprouse and Kathryn Newton.

Recently, Zelda has been addressing rumours about her dad after a post of Williams with a monkey on his shoulders went viral on X.

"Robin Williams: One of the last photos of a gem of a man, with his pet monkey, taken a few days before he committed suicide by hanging at the age of 63," the post read.

Zelda retweeted the post and clarified that her dad did not have a pet monkey, dispelling the claim.

It’s been brought to my attention some probably AI written BS like this is going viral. Dad didn’t own a pet monkey, NO ONE should, and if you’re ever tempted to, support your local exotic animal rescues instead. That is his Night at the Museum costar, who now lives at one. https://t.co/VmYHD8dE34

— Zelda Williams (@zeldawilliams) August 11, 2024

The monkey in question is actually Crystal, the character from the Night at the Museum movies in which Williams starred. Zelda further clarified that while the photo is genuine, it is not the last photo of her father before his death.

In another tweet, Zelda wrote, "And since more completely false or badly researched posts are likely to go viral on Dad’s death anniversary, maybe just assume they’re all BS (they usually are). Ignore the creepy robots trying to farm your clicks & do something nice for yourself instead. I sure as hell will."

Cody

Robin's youngest son has lived a more private life than his siblings, with his on-screen appearances limited to documentaries about his dad. Cody was just 22 when Robin died, and at the time, he said there were "no words strong enough" to describe the love and respect he had for him.

Robin Williams with youngest son, Cody. Image: Getty.

"I will miss him and take him with me everywhere I go for the rest of my life, and will look forward, forever, to the moment when I get to see him again," he wrote in a statement.

Cody married his long-term girlfriend, Maria Flores, on what would have been his dad's 68th birthday – July 21, 2019 – in the house where his dad and mum brought him up. Zelda posted about the wedding on Instagram, saying July 21 had meant many things to her over the years, including the birthday of her actress friend Juno Temple and the day Neil Armstrong stepped on the moon.

Zelda, Cody, Cody's wife Maria, and Zak at Cody and Maria's wedding. Image: Cassie Valente.

"And it was the day my dad was born, and the last day I got to see him," she wrote. "That last one had begun to usurp the joy of the first two in recent years... that is, until two days ago, when it became something new."

"On the 21st of July, 2019, it became the day I officially gained a new sister!

"To @mariaaafloresssswilliams and Cody, you are a light in all of our lives. I’m so grateful to have paid witness to your love over the years, to have watched you grow and care for each other in ways we should all be so lucky to experience," she wrote.

 Feature Image: Getty/Mamamia.

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