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Carrie Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress and writer.
She was born
Carrie Frances Fisher in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer
Eddie Fisher and actress
Debbie Reynolds. Her younger brother is Todd Fisher. Her half-sisters are actress
Joely Fisher and actress Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is actress Connie Stevens.
When she 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.
Carrie Fisher attended Beverly Hills High School and then Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Her first movie appearance was in Shampoo (1975). In 1977, she played Princess Leia in . It was a huge success and made her famous in her own right. In a recent interview on public radio she expressed some regret that she was known overwhelmingly for her role as Princess Leia, and joked that she was afraid that if she became senile she may begin to slip back into character.
Fisher's novel Postcards From the Edge, which was autobiographical in the sense that she fictionalized things obviously from her real-life, was published in 1987. It became a sensational bestseller and she won the Los Angeles Pen Award for best first novel.
In 1990, Columbia Pictures released a movie version of
Postcards From the Edge, which was adapted for the screen by Fisher and starred
Meryl Streep,
Shirley MacLaine and
Dennis Quaid.
Fisher was married to musician Paul Simon (1983-1984).
She is the mother of Billie Catherine Lourd (born July 17, 1992), whose father is CAA principal and agent, Bryan Lourd. The couple's relationship ended when Lourd left Fisher for another man.
Her other novels include
Surrender the Pink (1991),
Delusions of Grandma (1993),
Hollywood Moms (2001) and
The Best Awful There Is (2004).
In 2001, she co-wrote the TV comedy movie
These Old Broads, which she was also co-executive producer of, starring her mother,
Debbie Reynolds, as well as
Elizabeth Taylor,
Joan Collins and
Shirley MacLaine. In this, Taylor's character, an agent, explains to Reynolds' character, an actress, that she was in a blackout when she married the actress' husband, "Freddy."
Besides acting and writing, Carrie Fisher works as a "script doctor" on the screenplays of other writers.
On February 26, 2005 GOP media adviser R. Gregory Stevens, 42, was found dead in a guest room at Fisher's Beverly Hills, California home. Fisher stated that he was a long time friend and often stayed with her. The cause of death is under investigation.
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