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Carrie Fisher
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Screenwriter, Actor
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October 21, 1956 in Los Angeles, CA
Biography:Though she is a best-selling author and screenwriter, many fans will always associate "Carrie Fisher" with the role of Princess Leia from "George Lucas"' "Star Wars" trilogy. She is the daughter of movie stars "Debbie Reynolds" and "Eddie Fisher" and grew up wanting to follow in their footsteps. When Fisher was quite young, her father left the family to marry "Elizabeth Taylor". Reynolds raised Fisher and her younger brother, "Todd Fisher", alone, but then remarried. As a performer, she started appearing with her mother on Vegas nightclub stages at age 12. When she was 15, Fisher left high school to focus on her show business career. The following year, she was a dancer in the Broadway revival of Irene, which starred her mother. Soon after that, Fisher enrolled at London's Central School of Speech and Drama where she studied for 18 months.

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Nov. 16, 2009, 4:25 AM EST
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