Carrie Fisher was known as the second wife of an American legend musician, singer, songwriter, and actor Paul Simon.
Fisher was an American actress and writer.
Born on October 21, 1956, at Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, to actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher.
As a child, Fisher spent her earliest years reading classic literature and writing poetry. She attended Beverly Hills High School until age 16 when she appeared as a debutante and singer in the hit Broadway revival Irene (1973), starring her mother.
Her time on Broadway interfered with her education, resulting in Fisher’s dropping out of high school. In 1973, Fisher enrolled at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, which she attended for 18 months.
Following her time there, Fisher was accepted at Sarah Lawrence College, where she planned to study the arts. She later left without graduating.
Fisher made her film debut in 1975 as the precociously seductive character Lorna Karpf in the Columbia Pictures comedy Shampoo, filmed in mid-1974, when she was age 17.
2000 film Scream 3, Fisher played a former actress who acknowledges she looks like Fisher, and the following year she played a nun in the Kevin Smith comedy Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.
Carrie Fisher died on December 27, 2016, at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States.