Carrie Fisher
Carrie Frances Fisher ( born October 21, 1956 in Beverly Hills, California) is an American actress and author.
Life and work
Fisher is the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. When she was two years old, her parents divorced and her father remarried soon after Elizabeth Taylor. Her brother is Todd Fisher, her half- sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher, whose mother is actress Connie Stevens. Carrie Fisher attended Beverly Hills High School and later the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.
Her first film appearance was in 1975 in shampoo. In 1977, she first played Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy - her most famous role. In 1987 she published her first novel Postcards From the Edge ( German title Greetings from Hollywood), which contains autobiographical elements; the protagonist of the novel is going through similar problems with their drug addiction and with her mother as Fisher 1989, the novel itself with the actors Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid was filmed under the book title. In 1995, Fisher made a guest appearance on the television series Ellen, in her half-sister Joely Fisher played a major role from the second season. From her biography Fisher made the one-woman show Wishful Drinking, which ran successfully on Broadway. The show was the basis for the eponymous book, which was published in 2008. This Fisher also describes her bipolar disorder.
Carrie Fisher was married from 1983 to 1984 with musician Paul Simon. On 17 July 1992 her daughter Billie Catherine Lourd came into the world; the child's father is Bryan Lourd, of which Fisher in 1995 after two years of marriage separated.