77 Facts About Princess Leia

Princess Leia Organa is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise.

Princess Leia is portrayed by Carrie Fisher in the original film trilogy and the sequel trilogy.

The 2005 prequel film Revenge of the Sith reveals that Princess Leia's mother is Senator Padme Amidala of Naboo, who dies after childbirth.

Princess Leia's father is Anakin Skywalker, a Jedi who falls to the dark side of the Force and becomes Darth Vader.

Princess Leia is the mentor of Rey, the last remaining Jedi.

Princess Leia dies towards the end of the film but returns as a Force spirit alongside Luke.

One of the more popular Star Wars characters, Princess Leia has been called a 1980s icon, a feminist hero and model for other adventure heroines.

Princess Leia has appeared in many derivative works and merchandising, including the now-noncanonical Star Wars Expanded Universe, and has been referenced or parodied in several TV shows and films.

Princess Leia received Saturn Award nominations for Best Supporting Actress for The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, the latter being a posthumous nomination.

Princess Leia was created by Star Wars creator George Lucas, who in 1999 explained his early development of the main characters:.

The character Princess Leia went through various changes as George Lucas wrote and refined the Star Wars screenplay.

Princess Leia was cast over Karen Allen, Glenn Close, Farrah Fawcett, Anjelica Huston, Amy Irving, Jessica Lange, Terri Nunn, Linda Purl, Meryl Streep and Cindy Williams.

Princess Leia has no friends, no family; her planet was blown up in seconds.

Princess Leia is captured when Darth Vader boards her ship, demanding that she reveal the location of stolen architectural plans for the Death Star, the Galactic Empire's battle station.

Princess Leia provides the location of an abandoned headquarters on Dantooine, but Tarkin obliterates Alderaan anyway.

Princess Leia is rescued by Luke Skywalker, Han Solo and Chewbacca.

Fisher told Rolling Stone in 1980 that in the original script, when Luke and Han arrive to rescue Princess Leia, she is unconscious, her eyes are yellow and she is hanging upside down, imagery which alludes to the 1973 horror film The Exorcist.

When Imperial forces arrive and assault the base, Princess Leia leads an evacuation.

Princess Leia then flees with Han, Chewbacca and C-3PO in the Falcon.

Princess Leia turns them over to Vader, who hopes to use them as bait to capture Luke.

Princess Leia confesses her love for Han as he is frozen in carbonite and handed over to the bounty hunter Boba Fett.

Princess Leia was wounded during a lightsaber duel with Vader, and used the Force to contact Leia.

Princess Leia frees Han from the carbonite, but they are both recaptured by Jabba, who chains Leia and outfits her in a metal bikini.

The group overpowers their captors, and Princess Leia strangles Jabba to death with her chain.

Princess Leia is adopted by Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan and his wife, Queen Breha.

Princess Leia is the leader of the Resistance, an organization she formed to fight the First Order.

Princess Leia is trying to find her brother Luke, who disappeared years earlier.

Princess Leia believes Ren can be brought back from the dark side, and urges Han to bring him home.

Nevertheless, he affirmed that Princess Leia's strength with the Force is an intrinsic part of her character.

When Princess Leia's ship is attacked by the First Order, she is expelled into space, but uses the Force to pull herself back onboard.

Princess Leia says that her son is gone, but Luke assures her that nobody is ever truly gone.

Princess Leia's face was digitally replaced by Fisher's, using imagery from Return of the Jedi.

Princess Leia makes a brief appearance in the final scene of the 2016 film Rogue One.

Princess Leia receives the stolen plans for the Death Star as a lead-up to the beginning of Star Wars.

Dave Filoni, the executive producer of Rebels, said the intention was to show Princess Leia developing her leadership abilities.

Princess Leia doesn't believe in the Empire, but she is acting the part, almost a double agent.

Princess Leia appears as a ten-year-old child in the 2022 live-action series Obi-Wan Kenobi, portrayed by Vivien Lyra Blair.

Princess Leia makes her first literary appearance in Star Wars: From the Adventures of Luke Skywalker, the novelization of the original 1977 film Star Wars, which was released six months before the film in November 1976.

Princess Leia is a point-of-view character in the 2015 novelization of The Force Awakens by Foster.

Princess Leia appears in the Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens line of novels and comics, which were introduced to connect The Force Awakens with previous films.

Princess Leia is featured in the young adult novel Moving Target: A Princess Leia Adventure by Cecil Castellucci and Jason Fry, which is set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, and Claudia Gray's novels Star Wars: Bloodline and Leia: Princess of Alderaan.

Princess Leia leads in Beth Revis' Star Wars: The Princess and the Scoundrel which is set immediately right after Return of the Jedi.

Leia appears in the limited series Star Wars: Princess Leia, which takes place immediately after Star Wars.

Princess Leia is featured in the four-part series Star Wars: Shattered Empire, set immediately after Return of the Jedi.

Princess Leia depicts Leia training in martial arts on Alderaan and explores her reaction to the destruction of the planet, while Shattered Empire portrays her as a skilled pilot who undertakes a dangerous mission alongside Poe Dameron's mother.

Princess Leia appears briefly in the 1978 television film The Star Wars Holiday Special as a leader and administrator of the new Rebel Alliance base.

Princess Leia appears in the animated segment at a different base in an asteroid field, and at the Life Day ceremony at the end of the film.

Princess Leia becomes the chief of state of the New Republic and a Jedi Master, and raises three children with Han: Jaina, Jacen and Anakin Solo.

In Heir to the Empire, Princess Leia is married to Han and three months pregnant with twins.

In Dark Force Rising, Princess Leia realizes that Darth Vader and the Empire deceived the Noghri to secure their allegiance, and by revealing the truth she turns the alien race to the side of the New Republic.

The Corellian trilogy by Roger MacBride Allen finds Han and Princess Leia swept up in a civil war while visiting his homeworld of Corellia with their children.

The spirit of Anakin Skywalker appears to Princess Leia and pleads for her forgiveness, but she angrily banishes him.

Princess Leia, now engaged to Han, is captured by Zorba in Queen of the Empire.

Princess Leia is rescued and replaced with a lookalike droid decoy, which kills Trioculus.

In Prophets of the Dark Side, Princess Leia looks forward to her wedding to Han and has a vision of their two children.

When she learns of Anakin's childhood as a slave and the traumatic death of his mother, Princess Leia learns to forgive her father.

In Shadows of the Empire by Steve Perry, the only Star Wars novel set between The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi, Princess Leia is searching for Boba Fett to find a captive Han.

Princess Leia is bewitched by the crime lord Prince Xizor using pheromones, but Chewbacca helps her elude the seduction.

Princess Leia is targeted by a deadly Voxyn slayer in Troy Dennings' Star By Star, and though she manages to evade death, her son Anakin is later killed during a mission to prevent more Voxyn from being cloned.

Anakin and Padme are discussing a dream of Anakin's in which Padme dies in childbirth; later, Luke and Princess Leia watch a clip in which Padme is talking to Obi-Wan Kenobi about Anakin.

Princess Leia kills Luke's wife Mara Jade as his final sacrifice to become Darth Caedus, the new ruler of the Sith.

In Inferno by Troy Denning, Han and Princess Leia are faced with the reality that their son, now Joint Chief of State, is the enemy.

The nine-volume Fate of the Jedi series by Aaron Allston, Troy Denning, and Christie Golden finds Han and Princess Leia become caught up in the intensifying conflict between the Galactic Alliance and the Jedi.

Princess Leia develops a disdain for the Empire, as well as a conflict with Tarkin.

Princess Leia resists Palpatine's attempts to turn her as well, and escapes with the Jedi Holocron, an artifact he needs to secure his power.

When Luke pursues her, Princess Leia manages to turn him back.

Luke and Princess Leia then fight Palpatine with the light side of the Force, destroying him with his own Force-generated storm.

In Dark Empire II, Princess Leia gives birth to a third child, Anakin Solo.

Princess Leia is a playable character in Star Wars Battlefront, Star Wars Battlefront II, Disney Infinity 3.0, and many Lego Star Wars video games.

Princess Leia has been called a 1980s icon and a feminist hero.

In 2008, Princess Leia was selected by Empire magazine as the 89th greatest film character of all time, and in 2010 UGO Networks listed Princess Leia as one of the best heroes of all time.

Princess Leia has been used in a wide range of Star Wars merchandise, including statuettes, action figures and other toys, household items and clothing, office supplies, food products, and bubble bath and shampoo in Princess Leia-shaped bottles with her head as the cap.

Empire suggested that Princess Leia's hairdo was based on that of Queen Fria, a character from the 1930s Flash Gordon comic serial.

Princess Leia was one of the first characters I encountered whose power came from her political conviction and acumen.

Princess Leia can be strong, sassy, outspoken, bossy, and bitchy, and still be respected and seen as feminine.

Allie Townsend of Time wrote in 2011 that the so-called "slave Princess Leia" outfit has gained a cult following of its own.

Yes, Princess Leia was in a gold bikini, but she was the one who single-handedly killed Jabba.