Actress Fisher dies at age 60

Fisher in a 1978 file photo. [Photo/Agencies]

In 1987, her thinly veiled autobiography Postcards From the Edge became a best-seller. It was adapted into a 1990 movie starring Shirley MacLaine and Meryl Streep.

Fisher's one-woman show, Wishful Drinking, which she had performed across the country since 2006, was turned into a book, made its way to Broadway in 2009 and was filmed for HBO in 2010.

In the past 15 years, Fisher appeared as a television guest star, perhaps most memorably as a has-been comedy legend on 30 Rock.

Fisher starred with her mother in a documentary set to air on HBO in 2017.

Bright Lights: Starring Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher premiered at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year.

She endeared herself to the social-media generation with her quirky tweets, laden with crazy keyboard symbols and colorful typefaces.