Carrie Fisher
1956 – 2016 · United States
Known for: Princess Leia, and a fearless voice on mental health
“Take your broken heart, make it into art.”
Biography
She was nineteen when she became Princess Leia, a princess who grabbed the blaster and led the rebellion, rewriting what a heroine could be for a generation of girls. But Carrie Fisher's greatest role may have been herself: a razor-sharp writer, a script doctor for Hollywood's biggest films, and one of the first celebrities to speak openly and hilariously about bipolar disorder and addiction.
She turned her struggles into bestselling books and one-woman shows, insisting that shame was the real enemy. When she died at 60, having just filmed her return to Star Wars, the galaxy she helped build mourned a rebel princess who fought her hardest battles off-screen, and won them out loud.