In many ways, Carrie Fisher and her mother Debbie Reynolds shared many similarities. Both shot to stardom at the age of just 19 - Fisher as Princess Leia in Star Wars and Reynolds as Kathy Selden in Singin' in the Rain - and both went on to become Hollywood icons in their own right.
It wasn't all smooth sailing for the mother and daughter duo however, and both spoke candidly about the ups and downs of their relationship, which included a ten-year period of "total estrangement".
Born in Burbank, California, October 21, 1956, Fisher was the firstborn child of Reynolds and her then-husband, the crooner Eddie Fisher. She would go on to discuss the realities of growing up with such famous parents in her 2008 memoir 'Wishful Drinking'.
