October 21: Happy Birthday Carrie Fisher

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Carrie Fisher celebrates her 60th birthday today. The daughter of singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds, she made her Broadway debut in the 1973 revival of the musical Irene and her film debut two years later in the comedy Shampoo. And two years after that, she appeared in the role that made her famous, Princess Leia in Star Wars, as well as in its two sequels:
https://youtu.be/VU3vYa_mBDQ

Aside from Empire and Jedi, Fisher had several significant film role in the 1980s, appearing in The Blues Brothers, The Man with One Red Shoe, Hannah and Her Sisters, and When Harry Met Sally, among others. By the end of the eighties, she was beginning to make the transition from an actress to a writer who acted from time to time, publishing her first novel, the partly-autobiographical Postcards from the Edge, in 1987.

Fisher has written several additional books, as well as a one-woman play called Wishful Drinking. She wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of Postcards from the Edge, and was apparently a very busy script doctor during the 1990s. She returned to the role of Princess/General Leia last year in The Force Awakens, and a memoir called The Princess Diarist, based on her diaries from the filming of Star Wars, comes out next month.