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Carrie Fisher
Carrie Frances Fisher was an American actress and writer. She is best known for playing Princess Leia in the original Star Wars films (1977–1983) and reprised the role in The Force Awakens (2015), The Last Jedi (2017)—a posthumous release that was dedicated to her—and The Rise of Skywalker (2019), the latter using unreleased footage from The Force Awakens. Her other film credits include Shampoo (1…
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entertainment · American actress and writer (1956–2016) · film actor · novelist · playwright · voice actor · screenwriter · writer · television actor · stage actor · singer · spokesperson · also Carrie Fisher, Carrie Frances Fisher, Fisher
Born 21 October 1956 · Died 27 December 2016 · Q108941
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2026· 6 entries
“They were doing their best to cure a mental disorder. Can you really blame them?”
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“Without her drugs, maybe she would have left long ago.”
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“I would tell you, from my perspective that there’s certainly no news that Carrie did drugs,”
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Yahoo: Carrie Fisher's Influence on Paul Simon's 1983 Album 'Hearts and Bones' Revealed
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The Guardian: From James Van Der Beek to Carrie Fisher: TV’s greatest posthumous performances
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2023· 2 entries
James Blunt released an album including a track called "Dark Thought" about the death of Fisher, who was a friend of his
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Posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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2017· 7 entries
Awarded Disney Legends (2017).
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Left many viewers in tears and earned her a posthumous Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nomination
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A public memorial for mother and daughter was held at the Hall of Liberty theater in Forest Lawn Memorial Park
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health issued a death certificate that stated "cardiac arrest/deferred" as the cause of death, with more tests to be expected
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The lights on Broadway in Manhattan were darkened for one minute in honor of Fisher and her mother
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A joint private memorial was held for Fisher and Reynolds
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And was awarded a posthumous Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album the following year
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2016· 11 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A photograph shows a young Carrie Fisher watching her mother Debbie Reynolds perform onstage.” True.
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Snopes rated the claim “Carrie Fisher contributed script revisions during the filming of "The Empire Strikes Back"” False.
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The day after Fisher's death, her mother Debbie Reynolds had a stroke at the home of her son Todd, where the family was planning Fisher's burial arrangements
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Died 2016-12-27.
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United Airlines Flight 935 from London to Los Angeles, when she had a medical emergency around fifteen minutes before the aircraft landed
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“Não temos de estar sempre confortáveis. Não temos de gostar de tudo o que fazemos. Isso foi um choque para mim. Eu pensava que tinha de gostar de tudo o que fazia. Quando ouvi isso foi um grande alívio.”
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“Sobre como conseguiu o papel de Princesa Leia em Star Wars.”
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“Reação ao lançamento da autobiografia do seu pai.”
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“Tenho de começar por dizer que toda a minha existência pode ser resumida numa frase. E essa frase é: Se a minha vida não fosse engraçada, seria apenas verdadeira e isso é inaceitável.”
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“Tenho de parar de me obcecar com seres humanos e apaixonar-me por uma cadeira. As cadeiras oferecem tudo o que um ser humano oferece e menos, e isso é obviamente o que preciso. Menos resposta emocional, menos ternura, menos aprovação, menos paciência e menos reações. Quando menos, melhor. Serão cadeiras, então. Tenho de mobilar o meu coração com sentimentos por mobília.”
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Harvard College gave Fisher its Annual Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, noting that "her forthright activism and outspokenness about addiction, mental illness, and agnosticism have advanced pu
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2014· 3 entries
The cast for the new sequel was officially announced, and Fisher, along with Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels, and Kenny Baker, were all cast in their original roles for the film
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Received the Golden Heart Award for her work with The Midnight Mission
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Said she was no longer receiving the treatment
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2013· 1 entry
Her representative said the same day that Fisher was joking and that nothing was announced
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2010· 1 entry
HBO aired a feature-length documentary based on a special live performance of Fisher's Wishful Drinking stage production
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2009· 1 entry
Fisher returned to the stage with her play at the Seattle Repertory Theatre
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2008· 3 entries
Where she discussed her electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) treatments
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“no matter how I go, I want it reported that I drowned in moonlight, strangled by my own bra.”
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Also had a cameo as a doctor in the Star Wars-related comedy Fanboys
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2007· 2 entries
Fisher guest-starred as Rosemary Howard on the second-season episode of 30 Rock called "Rosemary's Baby", for which she received an Emmy Award nomination
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For The Essentials with informative and entertaining conversation on Hollywood's best films
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2005· 1 entry
Women in Film & Video – DC recognized Fisher with the Women of Vision Award
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2004· 1 entry
Fisher said she no longer did much script doctoring
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2003· 2 entries
Blunt spent much of his time at Fisher's residence
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Fisher played Mother Superior, another nun, in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
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2001· 1 entry
Played a nun in the Kevin Smith comedy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
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1992· 1 entry
“s name is Catherine Fisher Lourd and her nickname is”
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1991· 1 entry
And played a therapist in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)
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1990· 1 entry
Columbia Pictures released a film version of Postcards from the Edge, adapted for the screen by Fisher and starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid
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1989· 1 entry
Fisher played a major supporting role in When Harry Met Sally
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1987· 1 entry
Fisher published her first novel, Postcards from the Edge
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1986· 1 entry
Starred along with Barbara Hershey and Mia Farrow in Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters
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1985· 1 entry
After months of sobriety, she accidentally overdosed on a combination of prescription medication and sleeping pills
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1983· 2 entries
A run which overlapped with her mother's appearance in the Broadway company of Woman of the Year
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Fisher returned to the role of Princess Leia in Return of the Jedi, and posed in the character's metal bikini on the cover of the Summer 1983 issue of Rolling Stone to promote the film
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1980· 1 entry
Was briefly engaged to Canadian actor and comedian Dan Aykroyd, who proposed to her on the set of their film The Blues Brothers
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1977· 1 entry
Fisher starred as Princess Leia in George Lucas' space opera film Star Wars opposite Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford
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1975· 1 entry
As the precociously seductive character Lorna Karpf in the Columbia Pictures comedy Shampoo, filmed in mid-1974, when she was age 17
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1973· 2 entries
When Fisher was 17 years old
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Enrolled at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, which she attended for 18 months
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1960· 1 entry
Her mother married Harry Karl, owner of a chain of shoe stores
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1959· 1 entry
After it was revealed, shortly following the death of Elizabeth Taylor's husband, Mike Todd, that Eddie Fisher had been having an affair with her
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1956· 3 entries
Born 1956-10-21.
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At Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, to actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher
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“s songs. Fisher subsequently had a relationship with the Creative Artists Agency”
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