Carrie Fisher.

In an interview with the New York Times, Fisher revealed she made George Lucas give her a copy of The Star Wars Holiday Special 1978 in exchange for recording DVD commentary; she showed it at parties to make people leave.

She was once engaged to Dan Aykroyd.

Her final acting project was the third season of Catastrophe 2015; she was the only cast member allowed to improvise, and her real-life dog Gary appeared as her pet on the show. She died a week after finishing work.

In addition to her credited screenplay for Postcards from the Edge, Fisher worked as an uncredited script doctor on films such as Hook 1991, Sister Act 1992, Lethal Weapon 3 1992, Last Action Hero 1993, The Wedding Singer 1998, Scream 3 2000, and the Star Wars prequel trilogy.

Fisher also polished scripts for George Lucas’s television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles 1992. Lucas later hired her to polish the scripts of the prequel trilogy: The Phantom Menace 1999, Attack of the Clones 2002, and Revenge of the Sith 2005.

Fisher auditioned for the lead in Carrie 1976 while Sissy Spacek auditioned for Princess Leia; they ultimately swapped roles. Contrary to popular belief, Fisher did not turn down the role due to nudity.

She made her stage debut in 1975 in the chorus of the musical Irene, starring her mother Debbie Reynolds.

Fisher co-starred with her daughter Billie Lourd in Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens 2015 and Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi 2017; Lourd auditioned without Fisher’s awareness.

Her father Eddie Fisher left her mother when Carrie was two to marry Elizabeth Taylor.

In 1998, she entered a substance-abuse program for addiction to prescription drugs.

Her French bulldog Gary accompanied her everywhere, even onto television talk show sets.

She hosted the Saturday Night Live episode that featured the first appearance of the Blues Brothers and appeared in The Blues Brothers 1980.

Daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher.

Fisher was longtime friends with Miguel Ferrer, who helped her prepare for her Star Wars audition; their mothers Debbie Reynolds and Rosemary Clooney were both known for hit 1950s musicals.

She appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back 2001 with Mark Hamill, their first film together since Return of the Jedi 1983; neither knew the other was involved until after filming.

She wrote several novels, including the semi-autobiographical Postcards from the Edge, which was adapted into a film starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.

She has the last line in her last movie, Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi 2017: We have everything we need.

Fisher met British musician James Blunt in a Los Angeles restaurant and offered him a place to stay while he recorded his debut album; she suggested the album title Back to Bedlam and later became godmother to his son.

Her daughter Billie Lourd’s character on Scream Queens 2015 always wears earmuffs, a tribute to Fisher’s iconic Star Wars hairstyle.

Fisher was good friends with Michael Jackson, Courtney Love, Stephen Fry, and Meryl Streep. She was best friends with Richard Dreyfuss.

She appeared in five films selected for the National Film Registry: Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope 1977, The Empire Strikes Back 1980, The Blues Brothers 1980, Return of the Jedi 1983, and When Harry Met Sally… 1989.

In her later years, Fisher had a French Bulldog named Gary as an emotional support animal. After her death, her daughter Billie Lourd took care of Gary.

While filming The Empire Strikes Back 1980, Fisher traveled to Finse, Norway despite not being scheduled for outdoor scenes, just to be with the cast and crew.

Fisher was author William Goldman’s first choice for Buttercup in The Princess Bride 1987, but the role went to Robin Wright.

Fisher described herself as an enthusiastic agnostic who would be happy to be shown that there is a God. She was raised Protestant but often attended Jewish services.

She suffered an ectopic pregnancy while married to Paul Simon in May 1984.

Fisher was originally cast as Miss Scarlet in Clue 1985 but withdrew to enter treatment for drug and alcohol addiction; Lesley Ann Warren took over.

The punk-rock group Blink-182 wrote a song called A New Hope in which Princess Leia is the lead singer’s dream-girl.

Fisher had such a strong connection to England that she bought a home in London and planned to move there, but died before she could do so.

In her memoir Wishful Drinking 2008, she noted that, like her mother in Singin’ in the Rain 1952, she became famous at age 19 in a classic hit alongside two male co-stars; she also joked that the Star Wars subtitle could refer to her parents’ divorce.

Fisher had a quick wit. When her father’s first hit was Oh! My Pa-Pa, she quipped that her mother should have written a song called Oh! My Faux Pas.

She lost 35 pounds in preparation for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens 2015.

She appeared in Star Wars parody episodes of Family Guy and Robot Chicken, playing Mon Mothma. In the latter, Princess Leia voiced by Alex Borstein says: I don’t like her.

Fisher attended the Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

Her guest appearance on The Graham Norton Show on December 17, 2016 was her last interview, just 10 days before her death.

Todd Fisher is her older brother, and Joely Fisher and Tricia Leigh Fisher are her half-sisters.

In 2016, Harvard College gave Fisher its Annual Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, noting her activism and outspokenness about addiction, mental illness, and agnosticism.

When her mother was going through her divorce from Eddie Fisher, press crews camped on the lawn; Reynolds would bring food and drinks to reporters with toddlers Carrie and Todd in her arms, giving Fisher a comfort with media.