— Carrie Fisher
If your mother had been the Singing Nun, and you had started a career at twelve and, by the time you were twenty-one, you had seen little plastic dolls of yourself in every toy department in the country, you might have developed a Percodan addiction, too. Just being born into show business is probably enough. When she was only two, Fisher's father, the singer Eddie Fisher, divorced her mom, Debbie Reynolds, in order to marry Elizabeth Taylor, who promptly divorced Fisher to marry Richard Burton. It must have been confusing for a child. In any case, by the time junior high school came around, Carrie had started appearing in her mother's Vegas nightclub act. A few years later, she dropped out of school and, at seventeen, worked with mom again, in the Broadway revival of Irene. Her first movie was Shampoo, in which she seduced Warren Beatty (as if such a thing were necessary!); her second role, as Princess Leia in Star Wars (in which she sported two head-flanking pastry buns of hair and had a song dedicated to her -Leia's Theme- which you are listening to right now!), became a merchandising bonanza, and she herself became an addict to various substances. In the early eighties, she married and then divorced Paul Simon, and wrote a book about the experience (Surrender the Pink), as she did about her drug meltdown in the late seventies (Postcards From the Edge, which was made into a movie that earned Meryl Streep yet another Oscar nomination. The books were successful, and this pleased her. She produced a beautiful daughter, Billie, with Bryan Lourd, but was devastated when he left her for a man. Fisher has become one of the highest-paid script doctors in Hollywood, lending her talent to films such as Hook, Sister Act, Lethal Weapon 3, Milk Money, The River Wild, and The Wedding Singer. In 1997, Fisher signed a multi-year development deal with Universal Television; she is also at work on her fourth novel.
Occupation: Actress, Novelist, Princess, Script doctor
Date of Birth: October 21, 1956
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, Calif., USA
Sign: Sun in Libra, Moon in Taurus
Relations: Father: Eddie Fisher (singer); mother: Debbie Reynolds (actress); brother: Todd Fisher (TV commercial director, film producer); half-sisters: Joely Fisher (actress-singer), Tricia Leigh Fisher (actress-singer); daughter: Billie Catherine Lourd (with Bryan Lourd); ex-husband: Paul Simon
Education: Dropped out of Beverly Hills High School; attended Sarah Lawrence College
Fan Mail: C/O Creative Artists Agency 9830 Wilshire Blvd Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Credits
ActorScream 3 — 2000
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery — 1997
This Is My Life — 1992
Drop Dead Fred — 1991
Soapdish — 1991
Sweet Revenge — 1990
Sibling Rivalry — 1990
She's Back — 1989
Loverboy — 1989
The 'burbs — 1989
When Harry Met Sally … — 1989
Appointment With Death — 1988
Hollywood Vice Squad — 1987
Amazon Women on the Moon — 1987
Sunday Drive — 1986
Liberty — 1986
Hannah and Her Sisters — 1986
The Man With One Red Shoe — 1985
Garbo Talks — 1984
Return of the Jedi — 1983
Under the Rainbow — 1981
The Empire Strikes Back — 1980
Blues Brothers — 1980
Mr. Mike's Mondo Video — 1979
Leave Yesterday Behind — 1978
Star Wars — 1977
Shampoo — 1975
Screenwriter
Sister Act — 1992
The Wedding Singer — 1998 (Writer (uncredited))
The River Wild — 1994 (Script doctor)
Milk Money — 1994 (Script doctor)
Lethal Weapon 3 — 1992 (Script doctor)
Hook — 1991 (Script doctor)
Postcards From the Edge — 1990 (Screenwriter (also wrote original novel))
BOOKS
Delusions of Grandma — 1994
Surrender the Pink — 1990
Postcards From the Edge — 1987
TV
Ruby — 1997 (Series; episode)
Frasier — 1995 (Series; episode)
Ellen — 1995 (Series; episode)
Carrie Fisher: The Hollywood Family — 1995 (Host, Producer, Writer)
Science Fiction, A Journey Into the Unknown — 1994 (Special)
Sweet Revenge — 1990 (U.S./Fr. TV Movie)
Red, Hot & Blue — 1990 (Special; host)
Sunday Drive — 1986 (Movie)
Liberty — 1986 (Movie)
Classic Creatures: Return of the Jedi — 1983 (Special; host)
Saturday Night Live — 1978 (Series; host)
Leave Yesterday Behind — 1978 (Movie)
Come Back, Little Sheba — 1977 ( )
Laverne & Shirley (Series; episode)
COMMERCIALS
Mont Blanc pens — 1997