Beyond Princess Leia – Carrie Fisher Facts and Accomplishments You Might Not Have Known About

Carrie Fisher Facts

The world at large is still recovering from the passing of Carrie Fisher (and minutes into writing this article, her legendary mother Debbie Reynolds). Most people first came to know about Carrie Fisher through her portrayal of the iconic Princess Leia in the Star Wars universe, but her career and impact on the world persisted well after the three films that launched her into stardom. Here are some Carrie Fisher facts that you might not have known about.

To begin these Carrie Fisher facts, she notably wrote several books, starting with her semi-autobiographical fictional novel, Postcards from the Edge, which allowed her to satirize her struggles with addiction and her relationship with her mother. This novel would eventually have a film adaptation in 1990 starring Meryl Streep. She followed this up with her fiction novels Surrender the Pink and Delusions of Grandma, as well as her one-woman play Wishful Drinking and her tell-all The Princess Diarist, based on her diaries written while she worked on the Star Wars trilogy. Her writing skills also led her to become a trusted script doctor in Hollywood, sought for her ability to enhance the fluidity and effectiveness of dialogue in scripts. Many were unaware of this work, due to the standard lack of appearance in film credits for most script doctors. She contributed script changes to such films as Sister Act, The Wedding Singer, Lethal Weapon 3 and Hook. She also helped George Lucas with the scripts for the prequel Star Wars films and the Young Indiana Jones TV series.

Aside from her live action acting roles, both in the Star Wars films and other projects such as The Blues Brothers and When Harry Met Sally, Fisher also had several credited voice acting roles. Most popularly, she was known as Peter Griffin’s boss Angela on Family Guy. Her other television voice actor work included roles on Frasier, Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist and the second Robot Chicken Star Wars special. She also recently returned to voice General Leia in The Lego Force Awakens video game, and she even recorded a few lines for the first Dishonored game.

Fisher was also a big figure for mental health advocacy. She made her struggle with drug addiction known in her novel Postcards From the Edge, and she infamously disclosed details about her diagnosis with bipolar disorder in a 2000 interview on ABC with Diane Sawyer. She continued to be open about her mental illness in her subsequent writing and received many awards recognizing her vocal response to these issues. These included the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s Rona and Ken Purdy Award and the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism from Harvard College, both for helping to fight the stigma against discussion of mental health issues.

Now, upon the news of the passing of her mother Debbie Reynolds, Carrie is survived by her brother, Todd Fisher, her daughter Billie Lourd (who appeared with Carrie in The Force Awakens, and the next Star Wars film) and her dog Gary, beloved by many of her fans for appearing with Carrie in interviews and at recent public events. We here at Don’t Feed the Gamers continue to express our deepest condolences to Carrie and Debbie’s friends and family, and we hope that these Carrie Fisher facts helped reflect onto our readers her impact outside of that galaxy far, far away.

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A royally radical and totally tubular 90s kid, Cory has a passion for all things nerdy, particularly gaming and nostalgia. While an accountant by day, he strives to be as creative and humorous as possible in his free time, be it here writing on Don't Feed the Gamers, or making dumb satirical posts on his Twitter, Youtube, Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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