Star Wars Legend Carrie Fisher Dead at 60!
We have devastating news to report this morning as news has broken that actress Carrie Fisher has passed away after suffering a heart attack over the holiday weekend. Fisher is known for playing Princess Leia in 4 of the Star Wars Films. Get the latest on this below and share your thoughts AFTER THE JUMP!
Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, to a singer father and actress mother, making show business a natural progression for her. She made her movie debut in the Warren Beatty/Goldie Hawn 1975 comedy, Shampoo, before breaking into stardom with Star Wars in 1977 as Princess Leia – a role that would carry her through the ’80s as the Star Wars trilogy became a worldwide phenomenon. Her status as a pop-culture icon would live on for the rest of her life and career, as she popped up for cameos in many famous projects (Austin Powers, Scream 3, 30 Rock, Family Guy), often mocking her own Star Wars persona.
She was also a frank and fearless author who would use her own personal struggles with things like drugs and bi-polar disorder as means of creating discourse and helping others. If that wasn’t enough, she was also a playwright and performer, as well as a script writer/doctor, who even helped George Lucas with projects like Young Indiana Jones and the Star Wars Prequels. Her written work recently thrust her into limelight again, when her recent memoir, The Princess Diarist, surprising details of her life – such as a brief affair with co-star Harrison Ford
