Fisher Carey: why did not the actress play anybody except Princess Leia?

Fisher Carey has been in the movies for forty years. However, she has only one "star" role: she is the role of Princess Leia, the main heroine of the "Star Wars" franchise George Lucas. How did the artist's career begin in the 70's and what other films with her participation exist?

Carrie Fisher: photo, early years

Carrie was born in a creative family: father - a singer, leads the race from Russian-Jewish immigrants; Mom - an actress, the star of "Singing in the Rain." It was impossible to assume that their daughter, Carrie Fisher, would choose a different, not creative profession for herself.

Biography of the actress was very saturated. In two years her parents divorced. The father became the husband of the world famous Elizabeth Taylor. So Carrie, in addition to her own brother, also had two sisters. All the younger generation of Fischers later had a direct relationship to the cinema.

Carrie knew from the very childhood that she would be an actress. From the age of 12 the girl took part in productions with the participation of her mother. At 17, Fischer sang in Broadway musicals.

Despite the fact that after the divorce, Carrie stayed with her mother, they did not ask for a relationship. In later years, the actress even wrote a novel on this subject - "Postcards from the edge of the abyss." Based on the plot of the novel in 1991 in Hollywood was filmed a film with Meryl Streep in the title role.

The first works in the cinema

Fisher Carey first appeared on the screen in 1975. In the comedy shampoo, she turned out to be the role of Lorna. Along with Fischer, Goldie Hawn ("The Bird on the Wire") and Warren Beatty ("Bonnie and Clyde") were shot in the film.

Carrie Fisher in his youth did not spoil the main roles. She devoted two more years to work in the comedy series Laverne and Shirley. And only then in her career there was an unexpected turn.

The "Star Wars" saga and the character Fisher

Fisher Carrie, with her famous name, owes exclusively to George Lucas, who saw in her the ideal pretender to the role of Princess Leia. Before that, Fisher had to compete with artists Cindy Williams, Terry Nunn and Amy Irving.

The heroine Carrie is the daughter of the glorious Anakin Skywalker. Her mother was Padmé Amidala, Senator of the Galactic Senate. Leia Organa also has a twin brother Luke Skywalker.

In the process of filming Fisher arranged everything, except that her beautiful figure is hidden baggy clothes. The actress did not hesitate to tell the director about it. George Lucas respected Carrie's desire and for the episode where the heroine is in captivity with Jabba the Hutt, developed the most open suit.

Biography of Princess Leia

Leia and Luke, parents by force of circumstances left immediately after birth. Princess raised noble people from the planet Alderaan.

However, the stormy temperament of his father passed to the girl: after growing up, she became one of the most respected leaders of the Galactic Civil War. Over time, the Authority was admitted to the Galactic Senate, was considered the youngest senator in the history of the administration.

However, not everything was so smooth in the biography of this character. At least twice the heroine of the actress Fisher Carey was taken prisoner: to Darth Vader and Jabba Hutte.

Later, Leia met the General of the Alliance of Rebel Khan Solo and they began a romantic relationship. After the wedding, the princess and Khan had a son. When he grew up, bad heredity made itself felt (after all, Ben is actually the grandson of Darth Vader), and Leia's son turned into a dark warrior. The denouement of this story is tragic: Ben in one of the episodes of the film kills his own father.

As for the personal qualities of the princess, she is an excellent politician, but is able to stand up for herself. Leia shoots well from the blaster and takes lessons in hand-to-hand combat.

Other roles in the movie

Carrie Fisher, the photo of which flaunted in all the magazines after the premiere of "Star Wars", so forever remained an actress of one role for all. Of course, she played in other films. But these were catastrophically small episodes.

Throughout his career, Carrie managed to play the main role only three times: in the franchise "Star Wars", the drama "Hannah and her sisters", as well as in the arthouse painting "Enlightenment White."

The film "Hannah and Her Sisters" was filmed in 1986 by Woody Allen. In the project, Carrie received the role of April Knox. This picture won 3 "Oscar" and "Golden Globe".

"Enlightenment of White" is a drama directed by Dominic Murphy. The film tells how after the murder of his father the consciousness of an avid addict Jessko White changed dramatically. He began to lead a healthy lifestyle, to dance, to gain strength - and all this in order to take revenge on his father's killers.