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Carrie Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, screenwriter and novelist.

Biography

Born Carrie Frances Fisher in Beverly Hills, California, she is the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her younger brother is Todd Fisher. Her half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and 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.

Fisher grew up wanting to follow in the footsteps of her famous parents. She began appearing with her mother in Las Vegas at age 12. She attended Beverly Hills High School but left to become an actress. She appeared as a debutante and dancer in the hit Broadway revival Irene (1973) starring her mother.

Soon after, she enrolled at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, where she attended 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.

Star Wars was a huge success and made her internationally famous in her own right. Princess Leia became a merchandising triumph; there were small plastic dolls of her in every toy store across the United States. Fisher has often joked that it was actually Princess Leia who became famous, and she just happened to look like her.

During that time, the late 1970s, Fisher became addicted to various drugs. She appeared as Princess Leia in the 1978 made-for-TV movie, The Star Wars Holiday Special
, and her drug use was quite evident from her on-screen performance. The problem became so severe that she was nearly fired from The Blues Brothers
(1980) for being unable to sober up long enough to film a proper scene. She then cleaned up and joined N.A. and A.A.

She appeared on Broadway as Iris in Censored Scenes From King Kong (1980). She appeared again as Princess Leia again in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980), and made her third and final appearance in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983). 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. It became a sensational bestseller and she received the Los Angeles Pen Award for Best First Novel.

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