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Name	George Lucas
Caption	Lucas in 2009
Birth date	May 14, 1944
Birth place	Modesto, California, USA
Birth name	George Walton Lucas, Jr.
Years active	1965–present
Occupation	Film director, producer, screenwriter
Spouse	Marcia Lucas, Griffin (1969–1983)
Partner	Mellody Hobson (2007–present)

George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director and founder/chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the space opera franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones. Today, Lucas is one of the American film industry's most financially successful independent directors/producers, with an estimated net worth of $3 billion as of 2010.

Early life and education

Lucas was born in Modesto, California, the son of Dorothy Lucas (née Bomberger) and George Lucas, Sr. (1913–1991), who owned a stationery store.

Lucas grew up in the Central Valley town of Modesto and his early passion for cars and motor racing would eventually serve as inspiration for his USC student film , as well as his Oscar-nominated low-budget phenomenon, American Graffiti. Long before Lucas became obsessed with film making, he wanted to be a race-car driver, and he spent most of his high school years racing on the underground circuit at fairgrounds and hanging out at garages. However, a near-fatal accident in his souped-up Autobianchi Bianchina on June 12, 1962, just days before his high school graduation, quickly changed his mind. Instead of racing, he attended Modesto Junior College and later got accepted into a junior college to study anthropology. While taking liberal arts courses, he developed a passion for cinematography and camera tricks. George Lucas graduated from Brookdale Community College in New Jersey.

As a child, Lucas never learned to swim, which became a source of embarrassment and frustration as he became older. Lucas has expressed in several interviews that his inability to swim was "the passion that drove me to succeed in filmmaking... (It) gave me the chip on my shoulder that I think was critical to my later success"

During this time, an experimental filmmaker named Bruce Baillie tacked up a bedsheet in his backyard in 1960 to screen the work of underground, avant-garde 16 mm filmmakers like Jordan Belson, Stan Brakhage and Bruce Conner. For the next few years, Baillie's series, dubbed Canyon Cinema, toured local coffeehouses. These events became a magnet for the teenage Lucas and his boyhood friend John Plummer. The 19-year-olds began slipping away to San Francisco to hang out in jazz clubs and find news of Canyon Cinema screenings in flyers at the City Lights bookstore. Already a promising photographer, Lucas became infatuated with these abstract films.

"That's when he (George) really started exploring" Plummer recalled. "We went to a theater on Union Street that shows art movies, we drove up to San Francisco State for a film festival, and there was an old beatnik coffeehouse in Cow Hollow with shorts that were really out there." It was a season of awakening for Lucas, who had been an uninterested slacker in high school. At an autocross track, Lucas met his first mentor in the film industry — famed cinematographer Haskell Wexler, a fellow aficionado of sleek racing machines. Wexler was impressed by the way the shy teenager handled a camera, cradling it low on his hips to get better angles. "George had a very good eye, and he thought visually," Wexler recalls.

Lucas then transferred to the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts. USC was one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to motion picture film. During the years at USC, George Lucas shared a dorm room with Randal Kleiser. Along with classmates such as Walter Murch, Hal Barwood and John Milius, they became a clique of film students known as The Dirty Dozen. He also became very good friends with fellow acclaimed student filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Lucas was deeply influenced by the Filmic Expression course taught at the school by filmmaker Lester Novros which concentrated on the non-narrative elements of Film Form like color, light, movement, space, and time. Another huge inspiration was the Serbian montagist (and dean of the USC Film Department) Slavko Vorkapich, a film theoretician comparable in historical importance to Sergei Eisenstein, who moved to Hollywood to make stunning montage sequences for studio features at MGM, RKO, and Paramount. Vorkapich taught the autonomous nature of the cinematic art form, emphasizing the unique dynamic quality of movement and kinetic energy inherent in motion pictures.

Lucas saw many inspiring movies in class, particularly the visual films coming out of the National Film Board of Canada like Arthur Lipsett's 21-87, the French-Canadian cameraman Jean-Claude Labrecque's cinéma vérité 60 Cycles, the work of Norman McLaren, and the documentaries of Claude Jutra. Lucas fell madly in love with pure cinema and quickly became prolific at making 16 mm nonstory noncharacter visual tone poems and cinéma vérité with such titles as Look at Life, Herbie, , The Emperor, Anyone Lived in a Pretty (how) Town, Filmmaker, and 6-18-67. He was passionate and interested in camerawork and editing, defining himself as a filmmaker as opposed to being a director, and he loved making abstract visual films that create emotions purely through cinema.

On a return-on-investment basis, Star Wars proved to be one of the most successful films of all time . During the filming of Star Wars, Lucas waived his up-front fee as director and negotiated to own the licensing rights (for novelizations, T-shirts, toys, etc.) —rights which the studio thought were nearly worthless . This decision earned him hundreds of millions of dollars , as he was able to directly profit from all the licensed games, toys, and collectibles created for the franchise. This accumulated capital enabled him to finance the sequel himself.

Over the two decades after the first Star Wars film, Lucas worked extensively as a writer and/or producer, including the many Star Wars spinoffs made for film, TV, and other media. He acted as Executive Producer for the next two Star Wars films, assigning the direction of (1980) to Irvin Kershner and (1983) to Richard Marquand, while receiving a story credit on the former and sharing a screenwriting credit with Lawrence Kasdan on the latter. Lucas also acted as executive producer and story writer on all four of the Indiana Jones films. Other notable projects as a producer or executive producer in this period include Kurosawa's Kagemusha (1980), Lawrence Kasdan's Body Heat (1981), Jim Henson's Labyrinth (1986), Godfrey Reggio's Powaqqatsi (1986) and the animated film The Land Before Time (1988). There were also some less successful projects, however, including More American Graffiti (1979), the ill-fated Howard the Duck (1986), which was arguably the biggest flop of his career; Willow (1988, which Lucas also wrote); and Coppola's (1988). Between 1992 and 1996, Lucas served as executive producer for the television spinoff The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. In 1997, for the 20th anniversary of Star Wars, Lucas went back to his trilogy to enhance and add certain scenes using newly available digital technology. These new versions were released in theaters as the Star Wars Trilogy: Special Edition. For DVD releases in 2004, this series has received further revisions to make them congruent with the prequel trilogy. Besides the additions to the Star Wars franchise, Lucas released Special Edition director's cuts of THX 1138 and American Graffiti containing a number of CGI revisions.

George Lucas on the special editions

"An Expanded Universe", American Cinematographer magazine, February 1997.

The animation studio Pixar was founded as the Graphics Group , one third of the Computer Division of Lucasfilm. Pixar's early computer graphics research resulted in groundbreaking effects in films such as Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Young Sherlock Holmes,.

In 2008, he reteamed with Steven Spielberg for Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.

Lucas currently serves as executive producer for , an animated television series on Cartoon Network, which was preceded by a . He is also working on a so-far untitled Star Wars live-action series.

For the film Red Tails (2010), Lucas serves as story-writer and executive producer. He also took over direction of reshoots while director Anthony Hemingway worked on other projects. Lucas is working on his first musical, an untitled CGI project being produced at Skywalker Ranch. Kevin Munroe is directing and David Berenbaum wrote the screenplay.

Awards

In 1991, The George Lucas Educational Foundation was founded as a nonprofit operating foundation to celebrate and encourage innovation in schools. The Foundation's content is available under the brand Edutopia, in an award-winning web site and via documentary films. Lucas, through his foundation, was one of the leading proponents of the E-rate program in the universal service fund, which was enacted as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. On June 24, 2008, Lucas testified before the United States House of Representatives subcommittee on Telecommunications and the Internet as the head of his Foundation to advocate for a free wireless broadband educational network.

The American Film Institute awarded Lucas its Life Achievement Award on June 9, 2005. This was shortly after the release of , about which he joked stating that, since he views the entire Star Wars series as one movie, he could actually receive the award now that he had finally "gone back and finished the movie."

On June 5, 2005, Lucas was named among the 100 "Greatest Americans" by the Discovery Channel.

Lucas was nominated for four Academy Awards: Best Directing and Writing for American Graffiti, and Best Directing and Writing for Star Wars. He received the Academy's Irving G. Thalberg Award in 1991. He appeared at the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in 2007 with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola to present the Best Director award to their friend Martin Scorsese. During the speech, Spielberg and Coppola talked about the joy of winning an Oscar, making fun of Lucas, who has not won a competitive Oscar.

In 2005, Lucas gave US$1 million to help build the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial on the National Mall in Washington D.C. to commemorate American civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. On September 19, 2006, USC announced that George Lucas had donated $175–180 million to his alma mater to expand the film school. It is the largest single donation to USC and the largest gift to a film school anywhere. Previous donations led to the already existing George Lucas Instructional Building and Marcia Lucas Post-Production building.

On January 1, 2007 George Lucas served as the Grand Marshal for the 2007 Tournament of Roses Parade, and made the coin toss at the 2007 Rose Bowl.

On August 25, 2009, Governor Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver announced that Lucas would be one of 13 California Hall of Fame inductees in The California Museum's yearlong exhibit. The induction ceremony was on December 1, 2009 in Sacramento, California.

On September 6, 2009, Lucas was in Venice to present to the Pixar team the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the 2009 Biennale Venice Film Festival.

Personal life

In 1969, Lucas married film editor Marcia Lou Griffin, who went on to win an Academy Award for her editing work on the original (Episode IV) Star Wars film. George and Marcia adopted a daughter, Amanda, in 1981, and divorced in 1983. Lucas has since adopted two more children: Katie, born in 1988, and Jett, born in 1993. All three of his children have appeared in the three Star Wars prequels, as has Lucas himself. Lucas had been in a long relationship with and engaged to singer Linda Ronstadt. He has been dating Mellody Hobson, president of Ariel Investments, since 2006 and she has accompanied him to several events including the 79th Academy Awards ceremony in February 2007, an American Film Institute event in October 2007, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival held in May, and the 2010 Golden Globes.

Lucas was born and raised in a strong Methodist family. The religious and mythical themes in Star Wars were inspired by Lucas' interest in the writings of mythologist Joseph Campbell, and he would eventually come to identify strongly with the Eastern religious philosophies he studied and incorporated into his movies, which were a major inspiration for "the Force." Lucas eventually came to state that his religion was "Buddhist Methodist". Lucas resides in Marin County. Lucas has said that he is a fan of Seth MacFarlane's hit TV show Family Guy. MacFarlane has said that Lucasfilm was extremely helpful when the Family Guy crew wanted to parody their works.

Lucas has pledged to give half of his fortune to charity as part of an effort called The Giving Pledge led by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett to persuade America's richest individuals to donate their financial wealth to charities.

Filmography

References

Sources

Rinzler, J.W. "The Making of Star Wars, The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film", Ebury Press, 2007.

Silberman, Steve "Life After Darth" Wired, November, 2005

"George Lucas: Interviews" University Press of Mississippi (February 16, 2007)

The Cinema of George Lucas (Hardcover) by Marcus Hearn, Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (March 1, 2005)

Michael Rubin, "Droidmaker: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution" (2005) [ISBN 0937404675]

External links

George Lucas biography at Lucasfilm.com

George Lucas biography at World Business Forum where Lucas is a featured speaker for the 2009 event

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Caption	Carrie Fisher at WonderCon 2009
Birth date	October 21, 1956
Birth place	Beverly Hills, California, U.S.
Birth name	Carrie Frances Fisher
Spouse	Paul Simon (1983–1984)
Partner	Bryan Lourd (1991–1994)
Occupation	Novelist, screenwriter, actress, lecturer
Years active	1975–present

Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American novelist, screenwriter, actress and lecturer. She is most famous for her portrayal of Princess Leia Organa in the original Star Wars trilogy, her bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge, for which she wrote the screenplay to the film of the same name, and her autobiography Wishful Drinking.

Early life

Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her paternal grandparents were Jewish immigrants, but she was raised Protestant.

In May 1978, she appeared alongside John Ritter in the ABC-TV movie Leave Yesterday Behind as a horse trainer who helps Ritter's character after an accident leaves him a paraplegic.

The huge success of made her internationally famous. The character of Princess Leia became a merchandising triumph; there were small plastic action figures of the Princess in toy stores across the United States. She appeared as Princess Leia in the 1978 made-for-TV movie, The Star Wars Holiday Special.

At this time, Fisher appeared with Laurence Olivier and Joanne Woodward in the TV episode Laurence Olivier Presents: Come Back, Little Sheba.

In November 1978, Fisher was the guest host for Saturday Night Live with musical guests The Blues Brothers and special guest Don Novello as Father Guido Sarducci. Dressed in a gold bikini, she reprised her Princess Leia character from Star Wars in "Beach Blanket Bimbo from Outer Space", a parody sketch of 1960s beach party films. Bill Murray and Gilda Radner imitated the Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello characters. John Belushi played biker Eric Von Zipper, and Dan Aykroyd, with whom Fisher was romantically involved, portrayed Vincent Price.

Fisher appeared in the music video for Ringo Starr's cover of "You're Sixteen" as the love interest in 1978 on his TV special of that year.

1980s

Fisher later appeared in The Blues Brothers movie in a cameo role as Joliet Jake's vengeful ex-lover, listed in the credits as "Mystery Woman". She appeared on Broadway in Censored Scenes From King Kong in 1980. That year, she appeared again as Princess Leia in . She made her third and final appearance as Leia in the series in . After her appearance wearing a golden metal bikini, or slave girl outfit, that almost immediately rose to pop culture icon status, Fisher became a sex symbol for a short period. She is one of the few actors or actresses to star in movies with both John and James Belushi, later appearing with the latter in the movie The Man with One Red Shoe. She also was a replacement in the Broadway production of Agnes of God (1982). She appeared in the Woody Allen film Hannah and her Sisters in 1986.

In 1987, Fisher published her first novel, Postcards from the Edge. The book was semi-autobiographical in the sense that she fictionalized and satirized real life events such as her drug addiction of the late 1970s. It became a bestseller, and she received the Los Angeles Pen Award for Best First Novel. Also during 1987, she was in the Australian movie The Time Guardian. In 1989, Fisher played a major supporting role in When Harry Met Sally, and in the same year, she appeared opposite Tom Hanks as his wife in The Burbs.

1990s

In 1990, Columbia Pictures released a movie version of Postcards from the Edge, adapted for the screen by Fisher and starring Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, and Dennis Quaid. She also appeared in the movie Drop Dead Fred in 1991. In 1997, Fisher appeared as a therapist in . During the 1990s, Fisher also published the novels Surrender the Pink (1991) and Delusions of Grandma (1993).

2000s

IV, 2007]] In the movie Scream 3 (2000), Fisher played an actress mistaken for Carrie Fisher. Director's commentary on the Scream 3 DVD suggests that the sequence was in fact penned by Fisher herself.

In 2001, Fisher played a nun in the Kevin Smith comedy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. The title spoofs The Empire Strikes Back and the film, which includes Mark Hamill, satirizes many Hollywood movies, including the Star Wars series.

She also co-wrote the TV comedy movie These Old Broads (2001), of which she was also co-executive producer. It starred her mother, Debbie Reynolds, as well as Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Collins and Shirley MacLaine. In this, Taylor's character, an agent, explains to Reynolds' character, an actress, that she was in an alcoholic blackout when she married the actress's husband, "Freddy".

Besides acting and writing original works, Fisher was one of the top script doctors in Hollywood, working on the screenplays of other writers. She has done uncredited polishes on movies starting with The Wedding Singer and Sister Act, Her show played at the Berkeley Repertory Theater through April, 2008, followed by performances in San Jose, California in July 2008, Hartford Stage in August 2008 before moving on to the Arena Stage in Washington, DC in September 2008 and Boston in October 2008. In December, 2008 Fisher published her autobiographical book called Wishful Drinking based on her successful play and embarked on a media tour. On April 2, 2009, Fisher returned to the stage with her play at the Seattle Repertory Theatre with performances through to May 9, 2009. On October 4, 2009, Wishful Drinking then opened on Broadway in New York at Studio 54 and played an extended run until January 17, 2010. In December 2009, Fisher's bestselling memoir Wishful Drinking earned her a nomination for a 2010 Grammy Award in the Best Spoken Word Album category.

In 2007, she was a full-time judge on FOX's filmmaking-competition reality TV series On the Lot.

Fisher joined Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne on Saturday evenings for The Essentials with informative and entertaining conversation on Hollywood's best films. She guest-starred in the episode titled "Sex and Another City" from season 3 of Sex and the City with Sarah Jessica Parker. This episode also featured Vince Vaughn, Hugh Hefner and Sam Seder in a guest role. On October 25, 2007, Fisher guest-starred on 30 Rock for the "Rosemary's Baby" Episode 4 of Season 2 for which she received an Emmy Award nomination. She starred as Rosemary Howard. Her last line in the show was a spoof from Star Wars: "Help me Liz Lemon, You're my only hope!". On April 28, 2008, she was a guest on Deal or No Deal. In 2008, she also had a cameo as a doctor in the Star Wars related comedy Fanboys.

Fisher's Wishful Drinking will air as a feature-length documentary on HBO.

Fisher will appear on the seventh season of Entourage in the summer of 2010.

Fisher dated musician Paul Simon from 1977 until 1983, then was married to him from August 1983 to July 1984, and they dated again for a time after their divorce. During their marriage, she appeared in Simon's music video for the song "Rene And Georgette Magritte With Their Dog After The War". She is referenced in many of Simon's songs, including "Hearts and Bones", "Graceland", "She Moves On" and "Allergies".

Subsequently, she had a relationship with Creative Artists Agency principal and casting agent Bryan Lourd. They had one child together, Billie Catherine Lourd (born July 17, 1992). The couple's relationship ended when Lourd left to be in a homosexual relationship. Though Fisher has described Lourd as her second husband in interviews, according to a 2004 profile of the actress and writer, she and Lourd were never legally married.

Fisher also had a close relationship with James Blunt. While working on his album Back to Bedlam in 2003, Blunt spent much of his time at Fisher's residence. Vanity Fair's George Wayne wanted Fisher to explain if their relationship was sexual. Fisher dismissed the suggestion: "Absolutely not, but I did become his therapist. He was a soldier. This boy has seen awful stuff. Every time James hears fireworks or anything like that, his heart beats faster, and he gets 'fight or flight'. You know, he comes from a long line of soldiers dating back to the 10th century. He would tell me these horrible stories. He was a captain, a reconnaissance soldier. I became James’s therapist. So it would have been unethical to sleep with my patient."

In 2005, R. Gregory "Greg" Stevens, a lobbyist and advisor for the Republican Party, was found dead in Fisher's California home due to an overdose of OxyContin compounded by obstructive sleep apnea. In an interview, Fisher claimed that Stevens' ghost haunted her mansion. Fisher was unsettled by this: "I was a nut for a year," she explained, "and in that year I took drugs again."

In an interview on National Public Radio in 2005, Fisher joked that she was afraid if she ever became senile she might begin to slip back into her Princess Leia character. Fisher has publicly discussed her problems with drugs, her struggle with bipolar disorder, and her overcoming an addiction to prescription medication, most notably on ABC's 20/20 and The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive with Stephen Fry for the BBC. She discussed her new memoir Wishful Drinking and various topics in it with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today on December 10, 2008. This interview was followed by a similar appearance on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on December 12, 2008 where she discussed her electroshock therapy treatments. Fisher spoke about Wishful Drinking on NPR's Talk of the Nation on December 16, 2008. She also spoke about her life and troubles on the NPR quiz show Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on January 31, 2009.

Fisher has described herself as an "enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God." She was raised Protestant, but often attends Jewish services, the faith of her father.

In October 2010, Fisher toured Australia in her one-person performance "Wishful Drinking", based on her bestselling autobiography. It was just weeks after the death of her father Eddie Fisher and she spoke fondly of him. In one interview, she spoke of telephoning her mother Debbie Reynolds as well as her father's ex-wife Elizabeth Taylor to advise of Eddie Fisher's death. Taylor, she said, broke down in tears but Reynolds' reaction was dismissive.

Cocaine addiction

While in Sydney, Australia, Fisher revealed in an another interview that she had a cocaine addiction during filming of Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back also surviving an overdose. "Slowly I realized I was doing a bit more drugs than other people and losing my choice in the matter" she said in an interview.

Credits

{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ Film, television and video games |- ! Year ! Title ! Role ! class="unsortable" | Notes |- | 1975 | Shampoo | Lorna Carp | |- | 1977 | | Princess Leia Organa | |- | 1977 | Come Back, Little Sheba | Marie | TV movie |- | 1978 | Ringo | Marquine | TV movie |- | 1978 | Leave Yesterday Behind | Marnie Clarkson | TV movie |- | 1978 | | Princess Leia Organa | TV movie |- | 1980 | | Princess Leia Organa | |- | 1980 | | Mystery Woman | |- | 1981 | Under the Rainbow | Annie Clark | |- | 1982 | Laverne & Shirley | Cathy | TV series, episode: "The Playboy Show" |- | 1983 | | Princess Leia Organa | |- | 1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Thumbelina | TV series, episode: "Thumbelina" |- | 1984 | Garbo Talks | Lisa Rolfe | |- | 1984 | Frankenstein | Elizabeth | TV movie |- | 1985 | From Here to Maternity | Veronica | TV short |- | 1985 | | Paula | |- | 1985 | George Burns Comedy Week | | TV series, episode: "The Couch" |- | 1985 | Happily Ever After | Alice Conway | Voice only, TV movie |- | 1986 | Hannah and Her Sisters | April | |- | 1986 | Hollywood Vice Squad | Betty Melton | |- | 1986 | Liberty | Emma Lazarus | TV movie |- | 1986 | Sunday Drive | Franny Jessup | TV movie |- | 1987 | Amazing Stories | Laurie McNamara | TV series, episode: "Gershwin's Trunk" |- | 1987 | ''Paul Reiser Out on a Whim | | TV movie |- | 1987 | Amazon Women on the Moon | Mary Brown | segment "Reckless Youth" |- | 1987 | | Petra | |- | 1988 | Appointment with Death | Nadine Boynton | |- | 1989 | ''The 'burbs | Carol Peterson | |- | 1989 | Loverboy | Monica Delancy | |- | 1989 | Two Daddies | Alice Conway | Voice only, TV movie |- | 1989 | She's Back | Beatrice | |- | 1989 | When Harry Met Sally... | Marie | |- | 1989 | Trying Times | Enid | TV series, episode: "Hunger Chic" |- | 1990 | Sweet Revenge | Linda | |- | 1990 | Sibling Rivalry | Iris Turner-Hunter | |- | 1991 | Drop Dead Fred | Janie | |- | 1991 | Soapdish | Betsy Faye Sharon | |- | 1991 | Hook | Woman kissing on bridge | Uncredited role |- | 1992 | This Is My Life | Claudia Curtis | |- | 1994 | Super Star Wars: Return of the Jedi | Princess Leia Organa | Video game |- | 1995 | Present Tense, Past Perfect | | TV short |- | 1995 | Frasier | Phyllis | TV series, episode "Phyllis", voice only |- | 1997 | | Therapist | Uncredited role |- | 1997 | Gun | Nancy | TV series, episode: "The Hole" |- | 1998 | Dr, Katz, Professional Therapist | Roz Katz | TV series, episode: "Thanksgiving" |- |1999 |Return of the Ewok | |short subject, filmed in 1983 |- | 2000 | Scream 3 | Bianca | |- | 2001 | These Old Broads | Hooker | TV movie |- | 2001 | Heartbreakers | Ms. Surpin | |- | 2001 | Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back | Nun | |- | 2002 | | | |- | 2002 | | Ellen Tenzer | TV series, two-part episode: "Motherhunt" |- | 2003 | | Mother Superior | |- | 2003 | Wonderland | Sally Hansen | |- | 2003 | Good Morning, Miami | Judy Silver | TV series, episode: "A Kiss Before Lying" |- | 2004 | Stateside | Mrs. Dubois | |- | 2004 | Jack & Bobby | Madison Skutcher | TV series, episode: "The First Lady" |- | 2005 | Undiscovered | Carrie | |- | 2005 | Smallville | Pauline Kahn | TV series, episode: "Thirst" |- | 2005 | Romancing the Bride | Edwina | TV movie |- | 2005 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "Jungle Love", voice only |- | 2005 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "The Courtship of Stewie's Father", voice only |- | 2006 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "Hell Comes to Quahog", voice only |- | 2006 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "Whistle While Your Wife Works", voice only |- | 2007 | Suffering Man's Charity | Reporter | |- | 2007 | Cougar Club | Glady Goodbey | |- | 2007 | Odd Job Jack | Dr. Finch | TV series, episode: "The Beauty Beast" |- | 2007 | Weeds | Celia's attorney | TV series, episode: "The Brick Dance" |- | 2007 | Side Order of Life | Dr. Gilbert | TV series, episode:" Funeral for a Phone" |- | 2007 | 30 Rock | Rosemary Howard | TV series, episode: "Rosemary's Baby |- | 2007 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", voice only |- | 2007 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "Padre de Familia", voice only |- | 2008 | | Bailey Smith | |- | 2008 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "Tales of a Third Grade Nothing", voice only |- | 2009 | Fanboys | | Cameo appearance |- | 2008 | Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II | Princess Leia Organa, Mon Mothma, Krayt Dragon's Mother | TV movie, voice only |- | 2009 | White Lightnin' | Cilla | |- | 2009 | Sorority Row | Mrs. Crenshaw | |- | 2010 | Wright vs. Wrong | Joan Harrington | TV movie |- | 2010 | Entourage | Anna Fowler | TV series, episode "Tequila and Coke" |- | 2010 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "Peter-assment", voice only |- | 2010 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "Baby, You Knock Me Out", voice only |- | 2010 | Family Guy | Angela | TV series, episode: "Road to the North Pole", voice only |}

Bibliography

;Novels

Postcards from the Edge, 1987, ISBN 0-7434-6651-9

Surrender the Pink, 1990, ISBN 0-671-66640-1

Delusions of Grandma, 1993, ISBN 0-684-85803-7

Hollywood Moms, 2001, (introduction)

The Best Awful There Is, 2004, ISBN 0-7434-7857-6

;Non-fiction

Wishful Drinking, 2008, ISBN 1-4391-0225-2

;Screenplays

Postcards from the Edge, 1990

These Old Broads, 2001

E-Girl (2007)

''doctored screenplays for "Hook" (1991), "Sister Act" (1992) and "The Wedding Singer" (1998),

;Plays

Wishful Drinking, 2006

Wishful Drinking, 2008

A Spy in the House of Me, 2008

References

External links

Personal Website at CarrieFisher.com

Working the Edge, a 1990 Entertainment Weekly cover story profiling Fisher

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