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Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21,
1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist. She is most
famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia Organa in the original Star
Wars trilogy.
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Birth name Carrie Frances Fisher
Born October 21, 1956 (1956-10-21) (age 50)
Beverly Hills, United States
Notable roles Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars
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Biography
Early life
Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer
Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds; her paternal grandparents were
Jewish immigrants from Russia. Her younger brother is Todd Fisher. Her
half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose
mother is actress Connie Stevens.
When Fisher was two years old, her parents divorced and her father
married actress Elizabeth Taylor. The following year, her mother married
shoe store chain owner Harry Karl. It was assumed from an early age that
Fisher would go into the family business. She began appearing with her
mother in Las Vegas at age 12. She attended Beverly Hills High School,
but left to join her mother on the road. She appeared as a debutante and
singer in the hit Broadway revival Irene (1973) starring her mother.
Career
1970s
Soon after, she enrolled at London's Central School of Speech and Drama,
which she attended for 18 months. Her first movie appearance was in the
Columbia comedy Shampoo (1975) starring Warren Beatty, Julie Christie
and Goldie Hawn, with Lee Grant and Jack Warden.
In 1977, Fisher starred as Princess Leia Organa in George Lucas's sci-fi
classic Star Wars opposite Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford, with Peter
Cushing and Alec Guinness.
The huge success of Star Wars made her internationally famous. The
character of Princess Leia became a merchandising triumph; there were
small plastic dolls of the Princess in toy stores across the United
States.
She appeared as Princess Leia in the 1978 made-for-TV movie, The Star
Wars Holiday Special. Fisher hosted the Saturday Night Live episode that
contained the first polished performance by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi
as their popular Blues Brothers characters, Joliet Jake (Belushi) and
Elwood (Aykroyd).
1980s
Fisher later appeared in The Blues Brothers movie in a cameo role as
Joliet Jake's vengeful ex-lover, listed in the credits as "Mystery
Woman." She appeared on Broadway as Iris in Censored Scenes From King
Kong (1980). She appeared again as Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode V:
The Empire Strikes Back (1980). She made her fourth and final Star Wars
appearance in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983). After her
appearance wearing a "Golden Metal Bikini" or "Slave girl" outfit that
almost immediately rose to pop culture icon status, Fisher became a sex
symbol for a short period. She was also a replacement in the Broadway
play Agnes of God (1982).
Fisher's novel, Postcards from the Edge, which was semi-autobiographical
in the sense that she fictionalized events obviously from her real life,
such as her drug addiction of the late 1970s, was published in
1987.[citation needed] It became a bestseller and she received the Los
Angeles Pen Award for Best First Novel.
1990s
In 1990, Columbia Pictures released a movie version of Postcards from
the Edge, adapted for the screen by Fisher and starring Meryl Streep,
Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid. In 1997, Fisher appears as a
therapist Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. She is one of the
few actors to star in movies with both John and Jim Belushi, later
appearing with Jim in the movie The Man with One Red Shoe.
Her other novels include Surrender the Pink (1991), Delusions of Grandma
(1993), and The Best Awful There Is (2004). It was later renamed simply
The Best Awful.
2000s
Fisher also appeared in a book of photographs titled Hollywood Moms
(2001) for which she also wrote the introduction. In the movie Scream 3
(2000), Fisher's character, Bianca Burnette, is mistaken for Carrie
Fisher. Fisher pokes fun at herself with the line, "Yeah, I was up for
the part of Princess Leia. But who gets it? The girl who slept with
George Lucas!" Director's commentary on the Scream 3 DVD suggests that
the sequence was in fact penned by Fisher herself.
In 2001, Fisher appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back as the nun in
the car. This was the first time she starred in a movie together with
Mark Hamill since the original Star Wars trilogy. She also co-wrote the
TV comedy movie These Old Broads (2001), of which she was also
co-executive producer. It starred her mother, Debbie Reynolds, as well
as Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins, and Shirley MacLaine. In this,
Taylor's character, an agent, explains to Reynolds's character, an
actress, that she was in a drunken blackout when she married the
actress's husband, "Freddy." Besides acting and writing, Fisher also
works as a script doctor on the screenplays of other writers. Fisher
also plays Peter Griffin's boss on the animated sitcom Family Guy.
Fisher wrote and performed in her one-woman play "Wishful Drinking" at
the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles, CA from November 7, 2006 to January
14, 2007.[1]
On April 25, 2007, Fox Broadcasting announced that she, Brett Ratner,
Garry Marshall, and Jon Avnet would be the judges for the network's
filmmaking-competition reality TV series, On the Lot, scheduled to
premiere May 2007.
Personal life
Carrie Fisher was married to musician Paul Simon (married 1983-divorce
1984, during which time she had a miscarriage), and was in a
relationship with him for several years afterward. Subsequently, she had
a relationship with CAA principal and agent Bryan Lourd. They had one
child together, Billie Catherine Lourd (born July 17, 1992). The
couple's relationship ended when Lourd left her for a man. For a brief
time she was engaged to Dan Aykroyd.
In an interview on public radio in 2005, Fisher joked that she was
afraid if she ever became senile she might begin to slip back into her
Princess Leia character. Fisher has publicly discussed her problems with
drugs, her battles with bipolar disorder, and overcoming an addiction to
prescription medication, most notably on ABC TV's 20/20.
On February 26, 2005, 42-year-old Republican Party media adviser R.
Gregory Stevens was found dead in a guest room at Fisher's home. She
stated that he was a longtime friend and often stayed with her.
Fisher has described herself as an "enthusiastic agnostic who would be
happy to be shown that there is a God."[2]
Filmography
Shampoo (1975)
Star Wars (1977)
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
The Blues Brothers (1980)
Under the Rainbow (1981)
Return of the Jedi (1983)
Garbo Talks (1984)
The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Hollywood Vice Squad (1986)
The Time Guardian (1987)
Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
Appointment with Death (1988)
She's Back (1989)
The 'Burbs (1989)
Loverboy (1989)
When Harry Met Sally... (1989)
Sweet Revenge (1990)
Sibling Rivalry (1990)
Drop Dead Fred (1991)
Soapdish (1991)
Hook (1991)
This Is My Life (1992)
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
Return of the Ewok (1999) (short subject) (filmed in 1983)
Scream 3 (2000)
Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000) (Cameo)
Heartbreakers (2001)
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
Wonderland (2003)
Stateside (2004)
The Aristocrats (2005) (documentary)
Undiscovered (2005)
Dreams on Spec (2006) (documentary)
Cougar Club (2006)
Upcoming:
Fanboys (2007)
Suffering Man's Charity (2007)
E-Girl (2007)
The most important in Carrie's life is her family. She loves her
nephew's Curtis, Conrad jr Travis, and Chad. She also loves to spend
time with her neices, Marlanna, Ginny, and Danielle. " My cusin, Sally
Depuy, is really great." said Carrie.
Footnotes
1. Waxman, Sharon. "Comedic Postscripts From the Edge", The New York
Times, 2006-11-15. Retrieved on 2007-03-14.
2. http://talentdevelop.com/spirituality2.html
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