She also discusses her much-publicized problems with alcohol and drugs. The actress-writer recounts stories about her work on the 'Star Wars' series as well as her relationship with her parents Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. The show takes audiences on a comic tour of Fisher's messy personal life and career. It later played at Berkeley Repertory before opening on Broadway in October at Studio 54. The stage adaptation had its world premiere in 2006 at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A. 'Wishful Drinking' is based on Fisher's memoirs of the same title. Fisher will, however, appear in Star Wars: Episode IX through the use of unreleased footage from The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi.

One of her final films, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, was released on Decemand is dedicated to her. 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. 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. In later years, she earned praise for speaking publicly about her experiences with bipolar disorder and drug addiction.įisher was the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. She 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 was filmed for television and received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Variety Special. 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 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. She was nominated twice for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her performances on the television series 30 Rock and Catastrophe. Her other film credits include Shampoo (1975), The Blues Brothers (1980), Hannah and Her Sisters (1986), The 'Burbs (1989), When Harry Met Sally. Fisher is known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, a role for which she was nominated for three Saturn Awards.

YOU COULD JUST SHOUT OU WHATEVER QUESTION YOU HADĭON'T GIVE A SH*T ABOU WHAT THEY'RE WEARING.Ĭarrie Frances Fisher (Octo– December 27, 2016) was an American actress, writer, and humorist. AND FROM A CERTAIN SLAN MAYBE IT'S TRAGIC,

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