Billie Lourd shared a photo of her two children watching their late grandmother Carrie Fisher in 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope to celebrate Star Wars Day
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Lourd's mother Fisher died at 60 in 2016, before she finished filming the Star Wars sequel trilogy
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Lourd tends to post memories of her mother on May 4 each year, as well as on Fisher's birthday and the anniversary of her death
Billie Lourdis celebratingStar WarsDay by remembering her motherCarrie Fisher.
Lourd, 33, posted a photo toInstagramon Monday, May 4 —known asStar WarsDay— that appears to show her sonKingston, 5, anddaughter Jackson, 3, watching 1977'sStar Wars: A New Hopeon a television. Lourd snapped a photo during one of her mother Fisher's first scenes in the movie as Princess Leia, the iconic leading lady the late actress portrayed in the original threeStar Warsmovies and in the 2010s sequel trilogy.
Fisher notablydiedat age 60 on Dec. 27, 2026, after she wentinto cardiac arrest on a flightfrom London to Los Angeles. Lourd's grandmother and Fisher's mother,Debbie Reynolds, alsodied from a strokeat 84 just one day later on Dec. 28 of that year. Fisher's death also came nearly one year before the release of 2017'sStar Wars: The Last Jediand well before 2019'sThe Rise of Skywalker, resulting in alterations made to the sequel trilogy's storyline and Leia's character arc in the most recentStar Warsmovies.
Lourd honored her mother by writing out "May the 4th" in emojis in the caption to her Instagram post. "Ⓜ️🅰️🌱 ✝️♊️📧 4️⃣✝️♊️," she wrote.
Lourd, who shares her two children with husbandAusten Rydell, tends to share her memories of Fisher's life each year on the anniversary of her death and onStar WarsDay. Last year, sheposted a similar photo of her children watching Fisher perform in 1983'sReturn of the Jediand utilized the same emoji caption, a nod toStar Wars' iconic line, "May the Force be with you."
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Lourd also noted the nine years that have passed since her mother's death back in December, when she shared a black-and-white childhood photo of herself posing with Fisher and her father Bryan Lourd, a Hollywood talent agent and CEO of Creative Artists Agency. "It has been 9 years since my mom died. My daughter woke up earlier than usual this morning so we went outside together and she knowingly laid her little head on my chest," she wrote at the time. "She looked up at me with her big soulful eyes and said 'I love you mama' and grabbed my face with her little chubby hands and kissed me. She does this pretty much every morning and dare I say, there is no better way to wake up and no ritual I love more. I told her how much her grandmomby would have loved her and she looked up at me and kissed me again."
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The Last Jediwas the second-to-last movie Fisher appeared in after her death. She also starred in a movie titledWonderwell, which did not release until 2023. She and her daughter Lourd worked together on theStar Warssequel trilogy: Lourd portrayed a character named Lieutenant Connix in each of the three movies that starred Daisy Ridley and Adam Driver.
"She was a brilliant magical human and I want them to know that," Lourd wrote of Fisher in October 2025, as she marked what would have been Fisher's 69th birthday onsocial mediaand reflected on what she wants her kids to know about Fisher's life. "So despite the many emotions I have on these days I try to celebrate the good parts. I'll tell my kids funny stories about her, watch one of her movies, eat one of her favorite foods, have a Coke with a shit ton of ice. Grief is a weird soup of feelings and there are a lot of ingredients in it that are hard to swallow, but ultimately I think the soup has made me healthier - more cognizant of how short life is and more appreciative of all the happy in my life."
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