Carrie Fisher Biography

- US group 'Blink 182' penned a song all about Carrie Fisher as Princes Leia called 'A New Hope'.

- In 2005, Carrie joked that she was afraid if she ever became senile she might slip back into her Princess Leia character.

- Republican Party media adviser R. Gregory Stevens was found dead in a guest room at Carrie's home in 2005. An autopsy revealed he died from a drug overdose.

- Carrie had to stand on a box for many of her scenes with Harrison Ford in Star Wars because she was a foot shorter than him.