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| Birth Name(s) : Carrie Fisher |
Date of Birth: October 21, 1956 |
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This daughter of show-biz couple Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher appeared in stage productions with her mother before landing her first film job, as Warren Beatty's young seductress, in Hal Ashby's Shampoo (1975).
Two years later, she appeared in her most widely recognized role, that of the feisty, outspoken Princess Leia in Star Wars a characterization she repeated in the sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983).
Since then, she has survived drug and alcohol dependency, a troubled marriage to singer-actor Paul Simon, and such cinematic flotsam as Under the Rainbow (1981) and Hollywood Vice Squad (1986) to become a lively, refreshingly cynical supporting actress in such comedies as EB> (both 1989), Sibling Rivalry (1990), and Soapdish (1991). She then revealed a hitherto unsuspected writing talent as the author of the semiautobiographical novel "Postcards from the Edge." Director Mike Nichols had her write the script for the 1990 film adaptation (with Shirley MacLaine in the role based, at least in part, on Fisher's mother). |
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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, although her comedic novels also have won praise.
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 and her half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is actress Connie Stevens.
When Fisher was two, 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.
Soon after, Fisher enrolled at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, which she attended for 18 months. She made her film debut 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' sci-fi film Star Wars opposite Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford.
The huge success of Star Wars made her internationally famous. The character of Princess Leia became a merchandising triumph; there were small plastic action figures 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 included the first performance by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as their popular Blues Brothers characters.
Fisher appeared in the music video for Ringo Starr's cover of "You're Sixteen" as the love interest in 1978 on Ringo's TV special of that year..
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 in Censored Scenes From King Kong in 1980. That year, she appeared again as Princess Leia in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. She made her third and final appearance in the series in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia wearing her metal slave bikini. (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 also was a replacement in the Broadway production of Agnes of God (1982).
In the movie Scream 3 (2000), Fisher played an actress mistaken for Carrie Fisher. ("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. This was the first time she took part in a movie together with Mark Hamill since the original Star Wars trilogy (although neither actor realized this until the premiere).
Besides acting and writing original works, Fisher is one of the best-known script doctors in Hollywood, working on the screenplays of other writers. She has done uncredited polishes on movies starting with Steven Spielberg's Hook and continuing today. Her expertise in this area is why she was interviewed for the screenwriting documentary Dreams on Spec in 2007.
Fisher also plays Peter Griffin's boss on the animated sitcom Family Guy and appeared in a book of photographs titled Hollywood Moms (2001) for which she wrote the introduction.
Fisher published a Suzanne Vale sequel novel, The Best Awful There Is in 2004. Since Postcards from the Edge, Vale has married, become a parent, and divorced. She also is undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder but is not entirely comfortable with her "normal" self.
Fisher wrote and performed in her one-woman play "Wishful Drinking" at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles from November 7, 2006, to January 14, 2007. She is a full-time judge on FOX's filmmaking-competition reality TV series On the Lot.
Fisher was married to musician Paul Simon (1983–84, 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. She was tied for a time to Senator Christopher Dodd, and for a brief time 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, 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." |
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| I always wanted to do what my mother did - get all dressed up, shoot people, fall in the mud. I never considered anything else. |
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