Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars, passed away at the age of 60 on December 27, 2016, after suffering a massive heart attack on December 23, 2016. In honor of her legendary career, relive her most memorable moments and quotes here
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Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars, passed away at the age of 60 on December 27, 2016, after suffering a massive heart attack on December 23, 2016. In honor of her legendary career, relive her most memorable moments and quotes here
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Carrie Fisher, best known for her role as Princess Leia in Star Wars, passed away at the age of 60 on December 27, 2016, after suffering a massive heart attack on December 23, 2016. In honor of her legendary career, relive her most memorable moments and quotes here
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Carrie Fisher was born on October 21, 1956, to Hollywood star Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Her dad scandalized Hollywood when he infamously left her mother for Elizabeth Taylor. Reynolds surprisingly stayed friends with Taylor, who even left her some of her jewelry after her 2011 death.
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Fisher, a self-proclaimed bookworm, attended Beverly Hills High School (pictured above in 1972 during her sophomore year) before appearing alongside her mother, Reynolds, in the 1973 Broadway revival Irene.
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After a brief relationship with Dan Aykroyd, Fisher went on to date and later marry Paul Simon in 1983, but they split up a year later. The musician’s song “Hearts and Bones” is about their relationship.
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Fisher welcomed her only child, daughter and Scream Queens actress Billie Lourd, in July 1992. After three years together, Carrie’s ex and Billie’s dad, Bryan Lourd, left her and came out as bisexual, and is now married to Bruce Bozzi.
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The actress knew fans would always identify her with her iconic Star Wars role. Fisher once joked, “I am Princess Leia, no matter what. If I were trying to get a good table, I wouldn’t say I wrote Postcards. Or, if I’m trying to get someone to take my check and I don’t have ID, I wouldn’t say, ‘Have you seen Harry Met Sally?’ Princess Leia will be on my tombstone.”
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In her memoir The Princess Diarist, Fisher revealed she had an affair with Star Wars costar Harrison Ford. “It was so intense,” she wrote. “It was Han and Leia during the week, and Carrie and Harrison during the weekend.”
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The actress was open about suffering from bipolar disorder. In her book and show Wishful Drinking, she said that “living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls” and it's “something to be proud of, not ashamed of.”
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The When Harry Met Sally actress, pictured above with Bill Murray on Saturday Night Live, was known for her witty remarks. In her book Wishful Drinking she joked, “I feel I'm very sane about how crazy I am.”
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“People are still asking me if I knew Star Wars was going to be that big of a hit,” Fisher once said. “Yes, we all knew. The only one who didn’t know was George [Lucas].” She also once joked that her “life is like a lone, forgotten Q-Tip in the second-to-last drawer.”
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The actress never went anywhere without her beloved pooch, Gary. The bulldog was even by the star’s side when she suffered a massive heart attack while aboard a flight from London to LAX in December 2016.
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