Some Star Wars fans believe that Carrie Fisher's daughter, Billie Lourd, will bring Princess Leia Organa to life soon. Fisher's last performance as Leia was for 2017's Star Wars: The Last Jedi , which premiered roughly 40 years after she first played the character in 1977's Star Wars . Lourd is the only child of Fisher's and her mom tragically died in 2016.

After she became a pivotal part of the original Star Wars trilogy's cast , she returned to Leia for Star Wars: The Force Awakens . Lourd became part of the Star Wars sequel trilogy's cast when she appeared in that same film as Lieutenant Kaydel Ko Connix. Now, some Star Wars fans are convinced that Lourd may take on a bigger Star Wars role, as Leia.

In August 2025, Lourd published a photo of a tropical landscape in a

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