Carrie Fisher

Carrie Fisher

Fisher, daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, is best known for her role as Princess Leia in the science fiction epic Star Wars and her novel (which she later turned into a screenplay), Postcards From the Edge.

Carrie Fisher played in Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally, Hannah and her Sisters, She likes to read from and discuss her new novel, The Best Awful, a sequel to Postcards from the Edge.  She was part of the cast of the smash Broadway hit Avenue Q.  In 2004 she received the Tony Award for the Best Musical, Wicked. She was nominated for 10 Tony Awards for performing her part in The Musical Mind on Broadway.

 "When I was about 24, I had a doctor tell me I was hypomanic," says Fisher. "He said I should go on lithium. I didn't believe him. I thought he was trying to get rid of me."  And Fisher, who went on living with her manic depression for another four years without any intervention, is not alone.