Just a year later, Fisher appeared in horror satire Scream 3 as former Hollywood star Bianca Burnette, a role she helped to write at the suggestion of producer Bob Weinstein.
Fisher made cameo appearances in films as early as 1980 – the same year as The Empire Strikes Back; she showed up as ‘mystery girl’ in The Blues Brothers, just two years after Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s characters featured on Fisher’s episode of Saturday Night Live.
These cameo appearances grew well into the 90s with a series of uncredited roles (Outbreak, The Wedding Siger), the most memorable arriving as a therapist opposite Mike Myers character Dr Evil in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery.
Showing she was happy to poke fun at her Star Wars role, Fisher popped up in Fanboys where she paid homage to one of Leia and Han Solo’s most famous lines of dialogue.