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Carrie Frances Fisher (born October 21, 1956) is an American actress, novelist, screenwriter, and performance artist. She is best known for her portrayal of Princess Leia in the original Star Wars trilogy, her bestselling novel Postcards from the Edge and screenplay for a film of the same name, and her autobiographical one-woman play, Wishful Drinking.
Fisher was born in Beverly Hills, California, the daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Her father was Jewish, the son of immigrants from Russia, and her mother was Protestant. Her younger brother is producer and actor Todd Fisher, and her half-sisters are actresses Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher. Joely and Tricia's mother is the singer/actress Connie Stevens.
When Carrie Fisher was two, her parents divorced after her father left Debbie for her best friend, actress Elizabeth Taylor, the widow of Eddie's best friend Mike Todd. The following year, her mother married shoe store chain owner Harry Karl, who secretly spent her life savings. It was assumed from an early age that Carrie would go into the family show business, and she began appearing with her mother in Las Vegas, Nevada at the age of 12. She attended Beverly Hills High School, but she left to join her mother on the road. She appeared as a debutante and singer in the hit Broadway revival Irene (1973), starring her mother.
Actors: Olivia Williams (actress), Robert Pattinson (actor), Scott Trimble (miscellaneous crew), David Cronenberg (director), Ronald Sanders (editor), Joe Pingue (actor), Lisa Shamata (miscellaneous crew), Carrie Fisher (actress), John Cusack (actor), Julianne Moore (actress), Jayne Heitmeyer (actress), Tommy Woodard (miscellaneous crew), Ardy Brent Carlson (miscellaneous crew), Sarah Gadon (actress), Mia Wasikowska (actress),
Plot: The Weiss family is the archetypical Hollywood dynasty: father Stafford is an analyst and coach, who has made a fortune with his self-help manuals; mother Cristina mostly looks after the career of their son Benjie, 13, a child star. One of Stafford's clients, Havana, is an actress who dreams of shooting a remake of the movie that made her mother, Clarice, a star in the 60s. Clarice is dead now and visions of her come to haunt Havana at night... Adding to the toxic mix, Benjie has just come off a rehab program he joined when he was 9 and his sister, Agatha, has recently been released from a sanatorium where she was treated for criminal pyromania and befriended a limo driver Jerome who is also an aspiring actor.
Genres: Drama,Actors: Fisher Stevens (producer), Mira Sorvino (producer), Mira Sorvino (actress), Charlie Sheen (actor), Sandra Bullock (actress), Penelope Ann Miller (actress), Carrie Fisher (actress), Buck Henry (actor), Spike Lee (actor), Robert Rodriguez (actor), Griffin Dunne (actor), Fisher Stevens (actor), Melissa Gilbert (actress), Griffin Dunne (director), L.M. Kit Carson (actor),
Plot: A documentarian decides to follow the career of New York actress Lisa Picard, believing she is on the brink of fame. Instead, he bears witness to Lisa's continued, humorous, struggles as an actress, as well as the conflict that arises when Lisa's best friend Tate hits it big with an off-Broadway one-man show.
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