The original Princess Leia, played by the late star, Carrie Fisher, is posthumously honored with her very own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Motion Pictures on Star Wars Day of May the Fourth.
- The actress and writer “played Leia Organa, who over six films morphed from a princess to a general leading the forces of good in its fight against oppressive regimes aiming to control a galaxy far, far away.”
- Fisher’s daughter, Billie Lourd was at the ceremony to accept her mother’s star.
- Fisher passed away on December 27, 2016 at the age of 60.