SHOCK: Actress Carrie Fisher Dead At 60

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Actress Carrie Fisher, who suffered a heart attack last week, has died. Readers wil likely remember Fisher for her most famous role of Princess Leia in the Star Wars films. She was sixty years old.

The Los Angeles Times reports:

Carrie Fisher, child of Hollywood who blazed a path as ‘Star Wars’ heroine, screenwriter and author, dies at 60

Actress and writer Carrie Fisher, who rose to global fame as the trail-blazing intergalactic heroine Princess Leia in the “Star Wars” franchise and later went on to establish herself as an author and screenwriter with an acerbic comic flair, has died.

Fisher suffered a cardiac incident on Friday during a flight to Los Angeles from London, where she had been filming the third season of the Amazon comedy series “Catastrophe.” Upon landing, she was quickly rushed to UCLA Medical Center, but after three days in intensive care, she died, a family publicist confirmed. She was 60 years old.

From the moment she first stepped onto the screen in 1977’s “Star Wars,” the character of Leia Organa — whip-smart, wryly funny and fearless enough to stand up to the likes of Darth Vader without batting an eye, with an instantly iconic set of buns on either side of her head — inspired generations of young girls to be bold and inspired crushes in generations of young boys.

Decades later, when Fisher returned to the role in last year’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” she reflected to The Times on her status as a new kind role model in the pop culture landscape.

Sad to see her go so young.

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