Last night, Carrie won an award in the 2018 Teen Choice Award.
Gone but never forgotten.
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER – The late actress and writer was honored posthumously.
Carrie Fisher won her first Grammy award posthumously on Sunday, taking home the prize for best spoken word album for the audio version of her memoir The Princess Diarist. Fisher was previously nominated for a Grammy in the same category in 2009 for the audio recording of her book Wishful Drinking.
Best known for her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars films, Fisher died Dec. 27, 2016, at the age of 60, after suffering a heart attack four days earlier on a flight from London to Los Angeles. The next day, Fisher’s mother Debbie Reynolds also died.
Fisher beat out Bernie Sanders and Mark Ruffalo, nominated for the audiobook version of Sanders’ Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In; Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry); Bruce Springsteen (Born to Run); and Shelly Peiken (Confessions of a Serial Songwriter).
The award is merely the latest posthumous honor to be given to Fisher, who received an Emmy nomination for best guest actress in a comedy for her work on the Amazon series Catastrophe.
PARADE – Fans of the late Carrie Fisher remember the Star Wars star for her warmth, her biting wit and, of course, her iconic performances as Princess Leia. Fisher brought her signature style (and some of the franchise’s untold secrets) to The Princess Diarist, a memoir published just a month before her passing in 2016, based on the journals a teenage Fisher kept during the filming of the first-ever Star Wars film in 1977.
The Princess Diarist instantly made waves (and best-seller lists) for its raw hilarity and its juicy behind-the-scenes glimpse at Star Wars, including revelations about Fisher’s relationship with co-star Harrison Ford.
And now the audiobook recording of The Princess Diarist, narrated by Fisher herself and daughter Billie Lourd, has been nominated for a Grammy award in the Best Spoken Word Album category. If The Princess Diarist wins, it will be Fisher’s first Grammy, though the actress was previously nominated in the same category in 2009 for her memoir Wishful Drinking.
Listen to an excerpt from the audiobook below, where Fisher describes her first nerve-racking Star Wars audition with George Lucas.
INSTYLE – Carrie Fisher tragically passed away in late 2016, but the Star Wars icon is up for a Grammy more than a year after her death. Fisher was nominated posthumously for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her narration of her autobiography, The Princess Diarist.
The actress, who died on Dec. 27, 2016 after going into cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles, received the Grammy nomination in November 2017, almost a full year after her death.
Carrie Fisher tragically passed away in late 2016, but the Star Wars icon is up for a Grammy more than a year after her death. Fisher was nominated posthumously for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for her narration of her autobiography, The Princess Diarist.
The actress, who died on Dec. 27, 2016 after going into cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles, received the Grammy nomination in November 2017, almost a full year after her death.
