Frances Fisher - Biography

Last Editor: tygehayward				Frances Fisher Biography -   Name : Frances Fisher Date of birth : 21 October 1956 Place of birth : Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA Birth name : Carrie Frances Fisher Height : 5' 1

Frances Fisher Trivia -

Checked into substance-abuse program, addiction to prescription drugs. [October 1998] Co-wrote the 1997 Annual Academy Awards Ceremony presentation. Daughter of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher. Father Eddie Fisher left when she was 3 years old to marry Elizabeth Taylor. Has a daughter Billie Catherine (with 'Bryan Lourd' ) born in 1993. Half sister to Joely Fisher. Brother is Todd Fisher. Half-sister of Tricia Leigh Fisher. The punk rock group "Blink 182" wrote a song called "A New Hope" in which Fisher's character "Princess Leia" is the lead singer's dream girl. Made stage debut in the chorus of "Irene" (1975) starring her mother, Debbie Reynolds. Half-sister-in-law of Christopher Duddy. Attended The Central School of Speech and Drama in London. Appeared in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), which also starred Mark Hamill. It was the first time the two had starred together since Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983). Neither of them knew the other was involved in the project until shortly after filming had been completed. She did her very first European signing in London, England in a hotel libary on Saturday 3rd August 2003. It was an exclusive one-day signing, tickets limited to 500. Rumors have circulated for years that she had an affair with Harrison Ford during the filming of the first Star Wars film. Both deny this, but Carrie has admitted in interviews that she had a crush on Ford and spent a lot of time with him off camera. She allegedly disliked the "bagel bun" hair style she wore in the original Star Wars (1977), but she didn't say anything about it because she was afraid that director George Lucas would get angry and fire her. When asked what her favorite moment from the Star Wars trilogy are, she replied that her favorite moments were the arguing scenes between her and Harrison Ford. Along with her writing career, she also became a successful re-writer of movie scripts, saving many troubled productions. Is a long-time friend of Miguel Ferrer. He helped her prepare for her Star Wars (1977) audition. Stood on a box for many of her scenes with Harrison Ford in the Star Wars trilogy, owing to the fact that she was roughly a foot shorter than him and didn't fit into the frame.

Frances Fisher Detailed Biography -

Frances Fisher was born in Milford-On-Sea, England, the daughter of an international construction supervisor. Her family lived all over the world (Columbia, Canada, France, Brazil, Turkey, Italy and the U.S.) before she finished her schooling in Texas. Attracted to the theatre, she eventually moved to New York City and studied with Stella Adler and Lee Strasberg. Fisher was one of the last three actors chosen by Strasberg to be a member of the Actors' Studio before he passed on. Fisher spent years playing leading roles in over thirty productions, regional, Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway. Her favourite productions include: Fool For Love, Desire Under the Elms, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and A Midsummer Night's Dream. During this time she also had long-running roles in the television soaps The Edge of Night and The Guiding Light. Fisher is perhaps best known for her starring role (as Ruth DeWitt Bukater) in the Oscar-winning mega blockbuster Titanic (for which Fisher received a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Ensemble Cast). Fisher's additional feature film credits include The Stars Fell on Henrietta; Female Perversions; Clint Eastwood's True Crime, and his Oscar-winning Unforgiven; Paul Schrader's Patty Hearst; and Henry Jaglom's Babyfever and Can She Bake A Cherry Pie. Fisher recently won a DramaLogue Award for her work in Caryl Churchill's Three More Sleepless Nights and is currently working with Joan Tewkesbury on an expanded version of Jammed, her one-woman show which Fisher debuted to critical acclaim at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1997. Fisher's recent screen credits include the ABC telefeature Audrey Hepburn (as Audrey's mother, co-starring with Jennifer Love-Hewitt); Tom Rice's The Rising Place and Vadim Perelman's House of Sand and Fog. She is currently filming the HBO/Killer Films production, Mrs. Harris, opposite Annette Bening.