“Princess Leia” from Star Wars is dead: Carrie Fisher was 60 years old – t-online.de

The US actress Carrie Fisher has died following her recent heart attack. She was 60 years old. Her family announced the death in a Statement.

Fisher died, therefore, against 9 am in Los Angeles (18 PM CET). Yesterday Fisher’s mother Debbie Reynolds had communicated to the state her daughter was “stabilized”.

at the end of December, suffered Fisher on the flight from London shortly before the Los Angeles a severe heart attack. According to the airline, United Airlines, the flight attendants sounded the Alarm because a passenger had lost in the air, the consciousness and action of Board “has not responded”.

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After landing, emergency workers were able to come up with the necessary equipment, it is reported, among others, the “Los Angeles Times”. Then she came to the hospital and was ventilated on the intensive care unit artificially.

Princess Leia as the most famous role

Carrie Fisher was as a 19-Year-old through her role as Princess Leia from the “Star Wars”series. In 2015, she returned to “Star Wars: The awakening of the Power” in her iconic role on the big screen.

With 15 had abandoned Fisher school and was occurred with the mother in the Broadway Revival of “Irene”. Her film debut followed two years later, in addition to Warren Beatty, Julie Christie and Goldie Hawn in “Shampoo”. That they had during the filming of George Lucas ‘ “Star Wars”trilogy, having an affair with the married Harrison Ford, betrayed Fisher, recently in her autobiography, “The Princess Diarist” (2016).

Short marriage to Paul Simon

she was married less than a year (1983-1984) with the singer Paul Simon, and a daughter, Billie Catherine Lourd was, with the artist’s agent, Bryan Lourd.

In Interviews with the broadcasters, the ABC and the BBC to Fisher, how hard the pressure of the entertainment industry time life on your attitude. You’ve been looking for in alcohol, cocaine and drugs of refuge, she said. Been with twelve years you’ve smoked Grass, and with 21 taken LSD. Also, in some of Fisher’s novels, there is drug and alcohol abuse. Her first novel, “greetings from Hollywood”, was made into a film in 1990 starring Meryl Streep, Shirley McLaine and Dennis Quaid in the lead roles.

As Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy, Carrie Fisher became world famous. (Source: imago / ZUMA Press)

“a product of Hollywood inbreeding”

“I’m a product of Hollywood inbreeding,” she said full of sarcasm in her Show. “When two celebrities meet, someone like me.” Their problems with drugs were not as big as your difficulties with sobriety.

Fisher played in more than 40 movies, so in “the Blues Brothers”, “when Harry met Sally” and “favorite enemies – A soap Opera”. She was also in television and worked on screenplays. Her autobiography, “Wishful Drinking” was filmed as a documentary and by Fisher in One-person Shows on stages in Los Angeles, New York and Boston.

a Difficult relationship with the mother

Still, 2016 was Fisher, along with her 84-year-old mother for the HBO documentary “Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds” film and interview. Mother and daughter last lived side by side and saw on an almost daily basis – they are not hidden but also their often strained relationship.

Fisher’s father, singer Eddie Fisher (1928-2010), had left the family soon after the birth of their daughter, and Elizabeth Taylor married.