Born 1956, daughter of famous TV and movie actors Eddie Fischer and Debbie Reynolds. In 1983 she got married to and divorced from Paul Simon. She has had drug problems since the early eighties and was only recently diagnosed with the above mentioned mano-depression. Her breakthrough came as Princess Leia in George Lucas Star Wars trilogy. Oh, how we loved Princess Leia.

Brief filmography:

After this, she only landed small parts or television jobs as an actress. As sschris mentions she is working as a writer now. A quick search on IMDB shows that she's worked on the scripts for