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This daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher appeared in stage productions with her mother before landing her first film job, as Warren Beatty's young seductress, in Hal Ashby's Shampoo (1975). Two years later, she appeared in her most widely recognized role, that of the feisty, outspoken Princess Leia in Star Wars a characterization she repeated in the sequels The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and Return of the Jedi (1983). She was married to singer-actor Paul Simon. She has become a supporting actress in such comedies as EB> (both 1989), Sibling Rivalry (1990), and Soapdish (1991). She has written the semiautobiographical novel "Postcards from the Edge." Director Mike Nichols had her write the script for the 1990 film adaptation (with Shirley MacLaine in the role based, at least in part, on Fisher's mother). She followed it with other novels, "Surrender the Pink" and "Delusions of Grandma."
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– Is set to expose the secrets of the original STAR WARS films in a behind-the-scenes expose of the classic sci-fi trilogy through a diary that she kept during the late 1970s and early 1980s, when she played Princess Leia Organa opposite Harrison Ford and Mark Hamill. (March 30, 2005)
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– Republican media adviser Gregory Stevens, her longtime friend was found dead in a guest room at her home. (March 6, 2005)
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– Tom Hanks, Martin Sheen, Carrie Fisher and Cybill Shepherd are teaming up to oppose Schwarzenegger's bid to become Governor of California. (August 25, 2003)
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– In 1985, Fisher suffered a drug overdose.
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– The group Blink 182 wrote a song called A New Hope, in which Fisher's character, Princess Leia, is the lead singer's dream girl.
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– Fisher co-wrote the 1997 Annual Academy Awards Ceremony presentation.
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