According to TMZ, Reynolds and her son Todd Fisher were planning funeral arrangements for Carrie when she suffered a stroke. She was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles where she later died.

“She’s with Carrie,” Todd Fisher said in a statement.

A day before her death, Reynolds expressed her gratitude on Facebook for the love shown in the wake of Carrie’s passing.

Celebrities Remember Debbie Reynolds

Less than 24 hours later, celebrities young and old took to social media to remember the life and career of the Hollywood starlet who sung and danced her way into the hearts of movie fans around the world.

“Debbie Reynolds was one of the last of Hollywood Royalty. It breaks my heart that she is gone. I’d hoped that my grieving was done for 2016,” tweeted William Shatner.

Actress and singer Anna Kendrick called Reynolds an “American treasure,” while Ellen DeGeneres and Christina Applegate sent their love to Reynolds’ family.

I can’t imagine what Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’ family are going through this week. I send all of my love.

— Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) December 29, 2016

I can’t take this. To the whole family. I am so gutted. I am so sorry.

— christina applegate (@1capplegate) December 29, 2016

Actress and friend of Reynolds, Carol Channing, released a statement, which read in part:

“She was beautiful and generous. It seems like only yesterday she was having lunch here at the house and we were discussing the possibility of working together in a new show.”

Actress Sarah Paulson perhaps best captured the mood of the moment, sharing a poignant picture of a young Carrie watching her mother perform on stage.

This. Just this devastatingly moving photograph. Just this. pic.twitter.com/PKTT7gPbBI

— Sarah Paulson (@MsSarahPaulson) December 29, 2016

Debbie Reynolds: True Hollywood Icon

Reynolds’ career began in 1950 appearing in three films, one of which (Three Little Word) earned her a Golden Globe award for Most Promising Newcomer. In 1952 she starred in the film that would define her career, Singin’ in the Rain.

Much like Carrie did with Star Wars, Reynolds scored a role in the classic musical when she was only 19 years of age.

Despite having no prior dance experience, co-star Gene Kelly felt Reynolds had the chops to take on the female lead of Kathy Selden. Kelly was correct, and he, Reynolds, and Donald O’Connor created one of the most memorable song and dance numbers in movie history.

“The two hardest things I ever did in my life are childbirth and Singin’ in the Rain,” Reynolds famously said years after the film’s release.

Reynolds wasn’t a flash in the pan, her career would include four more Golden Globe nominations, a Best Actress Academy Award nomination in 1965 for The Unsinkable Molly Brown and an Emmy nod in 2000 for guest starring on Will & Grace.

In that role, Reynolds played the mother to Debra Messing’s character, Grace. In the wake of her passing, Messing shared a picture of her and Reynolds from the set of the NBC comedy.

A photo posted by Debra Messing (@therealdebramessing) on Dec 28, 2016 at 6:52pm PST

Throughout her career, she scored a number one hit (“Tammy” from the movie, Tammy and the Bachelor) and starred opposite such leading men as Frank Sinatra (The Tender Trap), Fred Astaire (The Pleasure of his Company) and Eddie Fisher (Bundle of Joy).

Debbie Reynolds’ Personal Life

It was the latter of those co-stars that changed her life as she and Fisher wed in 1955 and bore two children (Carrie in 1956 and Todd in 1958).

The couple would divorce in 1959 after Fisher left her for actress Elizabeth Taylor. Reynolds would marry twice more in her lifetime.

Reynolds and her daughter had an occasionally tumultuous relationship, which was loosely depicted in Carrie’s semi-autobiographical book, Postcards from the Edge, which she later adapted into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine.

Ironically, Reynolds would star alongside both MacLaine and Taylor in a 2001 TV movie, These Old Broads, which was written by Carrie.

At the Screen Actors Guild Awards in 2015, Carrie presented her mother with the organization’s Life Achievement Award and the two memorably shared the stage together.  

Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds And Carrie Fisher, an HBO documentary about their mother and daughter bond is set to premiere in 2017.

Debbie Reynolds’ Charity Work

Outside of the entertainment industry, Reynolds was a dedicated philanthropist and humanitarian.

In 1955 she was among the actors who co-founded The Thalians, a charitable organization dedicated to promoting awareness for mental health issues. Decades later, her daughter would champion similar issues.

Reynolds served as the organization’s president for much of the time between 1957-2011 and helped raise millions of dollars, which has gone toward the Mental Health Center at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and UCLA Operation Mend, which benefits military veterans and their families.

In her 2013 autobiography, Unsinkable: A Memoir, Reynolds expressed her love for Carrie, whose battles with bipolar disorder only strengthened her advocacy for mental health.

“Carrie is my child, and I love her with every ounce of strength I possess. If love alone could cure our children, they would always be well. Since I can’t, I will do whatever I can to make her life less difficult,” she wrote.

In 2015, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized Reynolds with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

“I’m thrilled beyond words, shocked, and you couldn’t be more amazed that a little girl from Burbank even came near this sort of accolade,” Reynolds said in an audio acceptance for the award during the Governor’s Awards.

Carrie also provided a video message saying in part, “I have no idea how she did all the things she did.”

“It honestly feels super-weird to be up here without her. I’ve never seen her miss a show in her life,” said Reynolds granddaughter, actress Billie Lourd who accepted the award on her behalf.

A triple-threat screen legend from Hollywood’s golden age, Debbie Reynolds is survived by her son Todd and granddaughter Billie.

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Fisher was in intensive care at the UCLA Medical Center after suffering what is believed to be a cardiac arrest on December 23 while aboard a United Airlines flight from London to Los Angeles.

According to TMZ, she was on life support after the cardiac arrest, which means her heart stopped beating.

Her 24-year-old daughter Billie Lourd announced her death via a statement from the family’s spokesperson, Simon Halls.

“It is with a very deep sadness that Billie Lourd confirms that her beloved mother Carrie Fisher passed away at 8:55 this morning,” read the statement.

“She was loved by the world and she will be missed profoundly. Our entire family thanks you for your thoughts and prayers.”

Carrie Fisher’s Notable Career

Fisher is, of course, best known for her role as Princess Leia Organa in Star Wars, which she landed when she was only 19. She would reprise the role in The Empire Strikes Back in 1980, Return of the Jedi in 1983.

“I knew that something enormous was likely going to impact my life from this film and that there was absolutely no way of understanding what that was or was likely to be,” she told People of the 1977 sci-fi classic in 2015.

The role would become the most notable of her career and one of the most iconic film roles of all time.

In 2015, she returned to the franchise (this time as General Leia Organa) in Star War: The Force Awakens.

She recently wrapped shooting on the currently untitled Episode VIII. As of this writing, there is no word from Disney or Lucasfilm on whether or not she was expected to return for Episode XIX.

Celebrity Friends Remember Carrie Fisher

Fisher will forever be linked to the Star Wars series and to co-stars Mark Hamill and Harrison Ford. Hamill, who starred opposite Fisher as Luke Skywalker, tweeted his heartbreak at the news of her passing on Tuesday.

no words #Devastated pic.twitter.com/R9Xo7IBKmh

— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) December 27, 2016

Ford, who played Leia’s love interest, Han Solo, in the films, released a statement, which read:

“Carrie was one-of-a-kind…brilliant, original. Funny and emotionally fearless. She lived her life, bravely…My thoughts are with her daughter Billie, her mother Debbie, her brother Todd, and her many friends. We will all miss her.”

Fellow Star Wars co-stars Peter Mayhew, Anthony Daniels and Billy Dee Williams also took to the social media to offer their condolences.

There are no words for this loss. Carrie was the brightest light in every room she entered. I will miss her dearly. pic.twitter.com/GgIeYGeMt9

— Peter Mayhew (@TheWookieeRoars) December 27, 2016

I thought I had got what I wanted under the tree. I didn’t. In spite of so many thoughts and prayers from so many. I am very, very sad.

— Anthony Daniels (@ADaniels3PO) December 27, 2016

I’m deeply saddened at the news of Carrie’s passing. She was a dear friend, whom I greatly respected and admired. The force is dark today!

— Billy Dee Williams (@realbdw) December 27, 2016

Finally, Star Wars creator George Lucas issued a statement following her passing.

“Carrie and I have been friends most of our adult lives. She was extremely smart; a talented actress, writer, and comedienne with a very colorful personality that everyone loved.

In Star Wars, she was our great and powerful princess—feisty, wise and full of hope in a role that was more difficult than most people might think. My heart and prayers are with Billie, Debbie and all Carrie’s family, friends, and fans.”

Fisher played royalty on screen and was born into Hollywood royalty in real-life. The daughter of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, Carrie’s first on-screen role came as a teenager in her mom’s TV movie, Debbie Reynolds and the Sound of Children.

Reynolds shared her appreciation for the outpouring of love through her Facebook page.

Fisher’s post-Star Wars film career included roles in The Blues Brothers, Hannah and Her Sisters, The ‘Burbs, and When Harry Met Sally.

She would continue to act through the 1990’s and 2000’s often in guest spots on TV shows and smaller roles in film while also developing a second career as a writer.

In addition to working as a script doctor on movies such as Hook and Sister Act, Fisher was an author penning numerous semi-autobiographical novels. One of which was Postcards from the Edge. Fisher earned a BAFTA nomination for her screenplay 1990 movie adaptation which starred Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. At the time of her death, she was on a promotional tour for her latest book, The Princess Diarist.

Carrie Fisher’s Charity Work

Outside of her career, Fisher was a staunch advocate for mental illness awareness. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1985 and was hospitalized following a psychotic episode in 1997.

“I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital,” she said in an interview with Diane Sawyer.

“I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I’m still surviving it, but bring it on.”

Fisher’s openness about her struggle with bipolar disorder helped to dispel misconceptions about the disease and mental health as a whole.

“One of the things that baffles me (and there are quite a few) is how there can be so much lingering stigma with regards to mental illness, specifically bipolar disorder. In my opinion, living with manic depression takes a tremendous amount of balls,” she wrote in her 2008 memoir, Wishful Drinking.

“At times, being bipolar can be an all-consuming challenge, requiring a lot of stamina and even more courage, so if you’re living with this illness and functioning at all, it’s something to be proud of, not ashamed of.”

In her personal life, Fisher was briefly married to singer Paul Simon in 1983 and conceived her only child, Billie Lourd, with her then partner, talent agent Bryan Lourd.

Fisher is survived by her daughter, mother, brother, two half sisters, and her French bulldog Gary, a therapy dog who frequently accompanied her on the red carpet and in interviews such as the one below in which the actress displays her witty charm with Good Morning America host Amy Robach in 2015.

May the force be with you, Carrie. You will be missed.

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