Robin Williams Named His Daughter After Princess Zelda

It takes a triforce of courage to name your daughter after a video game character, but Robin Williams pulled it off.

Watch Williams co-star with his daughter Zelda Williams in this ad for the upcoming Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D for the 3DS.

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    Weresmurf

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 7:15 AM

    Heard about this years back on Letterman but that’s just an awesome ad :D

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    Richard Smack

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 7:21 AM

    god thats funny :D

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    Dissection

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 8:39 AM

    That’s awesome.

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    Trjn

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 9:09 AM

    Easily the best reaction to this video:

    I just threw my wallet at my monitor, I dont even know why.

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    HotDamn!

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 9:15 AM

    That was gold!

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    Francis

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 9:18 AM

    That was magical :-D

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    Chris

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 10:31 AM

    I KNEW IT!

    Santa is a real person!

    :P

    Great ad :)

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    Scott

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 11:16 AM

    I have the biggest grin on my face right now :D

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    Courtney

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM

    I was sure it was his son that was a fan of the Zelda series and suggested he name his daughter “Zelda”. I think it was on Oprah that I seen him tell the story, back in the SNES days.

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    Scotto

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 12:52 PM

    My wife had allowed me to call my child Zelda if it was a girl. However we had a boy so he is named Dexter after “Dexter’s Lab”.

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    RileyProops

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 1:39 PM

    I found this awesome video on youtube that Kotaku should totally feature, it is celebrating the release of OOT 3D by spreading Ocarina Awareness. def FTW: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bl77EB5vW-k&feature=feedlik

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    Da' Fan

    Thursday, June 16, 2011 at 6:06 PM

    I was thinking of naming my kid after Zelda as well, but decided that might not be a good idea when I’m going on about the game all the time. :P

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    Dark_Templar

    Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 11:44 AM

    I’d tap that.

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