Reynolds and Karl divorced in 1973 when Fisher was 17 years old. In 1960, her mother married Harry Karl, owner of a chain of shoe stores. Her father's third marriage, to actress Connie Stevens, resulted in the births of Fisher's two half-sisters, Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher. įisher was two years old when her parents divorced in 1959. Fisher's paternal grandparents were Russian-Jewish immigrants, while her mother, who was raised a Nazarene, was of Scots-Irish and English descent. She was posthumously made a Disney Legend in 2017, and in 2018 she was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album.įisher with her parents and brother in a shot taken for an issue of Modern Screen, 1958Ĭarrie Frances Fisher was born on October 21, 1956, at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, to actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher. Fisher died of a sudden cardiac arrest on December 27, 2016, at age 60, four days after experiencing a medical emergency during a transatlantic flight from London to Los Angeles. She earned praise for speaking publicly about her experiences with bipolar disorder and drug addiction.
It premiered at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. She and her mother appear in Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a documentary about their relationship. įisher was the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Fisher worked on other writers' screenplays as a script doctor, including tightening the scripts for Hook (1991), Sister Act (1992), The Wedding Singer (1998), and many of the films from the Star Wars franchise, among others. She wrote the screenplay for the film version of Postcards from the Edge which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay nomination, and her one-woman stage show of Wishful Drinking received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special.
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She was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances in the NBC sitcom 30 Rock (2007) and the Channel 4 series Catastrophe (2017).įisher wrote several semi-autobiographical novels, including Postcards from the Edge and an autobiographical one-woman play, and its non-fiction book, Wishful Drinking, based on the play. įisher's other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally. She reprised the role in Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017)-a posthumous release that was dedicated to her -and appeared in The Rise of Skywalker (2019), through the use of unreleased footage from The Force Awakens. She played Princess Leia in the Star Wars films (1977–1983).
Carrie Frances Fisher (Octo– December 27, 2016) was an American actress and writer.
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