Billie Lourd

Biography

Billie Lourd is an American TV & Movie actress.

Childhood, Family, Personal Life

Billie Lourd was born on 17th July 1992 in Los Angeles, California to Bryan Lourd(Father) a talent agent  & Carrie Fisher(Mother) an actress by profession.

Image: Billie Lourd Childhood photo

Image: Billie Lourd With her father Bryan Lourd

Image: Billie Lourd Childhood: With Mother Carrie Fisher & Grandmother Debbie Reynolds

Image: 3 generations of acting: Billie Lourd, Mother Carrie Fisher, Grandmother Debbie Reynolds

Billie was born in a family of artists, from her mother's side she is a 3rd generation actress. Her mother Carrie Fisher is a popular actress and her mother Debbie Reynolds(of 'Singing in the Rain' fame) was one of the top actresses of yester years of Hollywood.

Career

Billie Lourd made her debut in movie Star Wars: The Force Awakens(2015) and aalso appears in Star Wars: The Last Jedi(2017) in the role of Kaydel Ko Connix. Her mother Carrie Fisher also has a role in the movie. She has also appeared in Billionaire Boys Club(2017).

She has had main roles in TV series such as Scream Queens(2015-16), American Horror Story: Cult(2017), Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles(2018)

Billie Lourd Interesting Facts & Trivia

• Billie appeared on The Ellen Show in 2017, Ellen has known Billie since she was a little kid.
• Sudden Death of the most influential women in her life: Billie's mother Carrie died on 27th December 2016, her grandmother Debbie Reynolds died the next day on 28th, thus leaving sudden gap in her life filled by these two influential women.
• Parents Oppose: Both her parents are in the film industry, but initially opposed Billie's desire to become an actress. In fact her grandmother Debbie Reynolds literally tried to scare Billie out of acting by making Billie read the diary written in Debbie's youth where she had to wear wigs & have her eye brows plucked and face other difficulties.
• Grandma's Obsession: Her grandmother Debbie Reynolds disliked people calling Billie as 'Carrie Fisher's daughter' she preferred people called her 'Debbie Reynolds's granddaughter'
• First Audition: She got her first acting role while she was watching her mother acting live on sets, director impressed by her coolness asked her to audition, her mother too was surprised by Billie's ease.
• Naked Show: For the birthday of her parents she would force her mother to dance in front of the audience( little bit of stripping involved), it became a family tradition.
• She has remarkable facial resemblance to her mother Carrie Fisher.
• Acting together with Mom: Billie made her debut in Star Wars: The Force Awakens(2015) where her mother Carrie was the princess Leia. Billie and Carrie did not talk much on sets so that no one would know they were related, Billie would call her Carrie instead of Mom.
• Tribute to her mother: Billie wore ear buns in the Scream Queens (2015) TV series imitating her mother in Star Wars movies.
• Ancestry: She is of English, French, German, Irish, Russian, Scottish, Welsh descent.
• In the biographical novel The Best Awful, written by her mother Carrie Fisher Billie is referred to by the name 'Honey'.
• Fear of horror movies: She is a 'scaredy-cat' in her own words, she watches Horror movies usually only in the morning, she needs lights to be on and doors to be closed for her to watch horror movies.
• She watched Star Wars when she was 7 years old, she wasn't impressed back then.
• Her mother named her Billie because she did not want her child to feel she had to limit herself to expected ways, she raised Billie in almost gender neutral environment.
• She ate Key Lime Pie & Pork Sandwich all her life as a kid, like most southerners do.
• Her parents allowed her to take acting classes on the promise that she would take up a non acting major in the university.
• Billie feels female directors can be very useful to artists as it would help the director assess the emotional state of an artist better.
• Her father Bryan Lourd came out as a gay later.
• She has a pet dog named 'Tina'
• She helped collect funds & blood for the victims of Las Vegas Shooting(2017)
• Billie is a humorous person. Her speeches for her mother & grandmother very fun, she has an instagram username- PraiseTheLourd.
• She is a foodie, she loves food.
• She supported Democratic party in 2016 elections
• Billy inherited her mother's Beverly Hills home, she has decided to keep it to honor her mother.
• Charity: Billy sold many of her mother's collections and other items, donated the money to couple of charities.
• Her mother treated Billie like an adult all her life, she would talk to her like two grownups would do.
• Apart from acting she is also interested in Improvisational theatre & Music.
• She feels she would have liked to be a travel agent, if that was still a job.
• Her fitness routine involves: Abs exercises, Yoga, talking her dogs to walk.