Billie Lourd Is Watching Her Late Mother Carrie Fisher in “A New Hope” with Her 2 Kids on “Star Wars ”Day
Billie Lourd Is Watching Her Late Mother Carrie Fisher in “A New Hope” with Her 2 Kids on “Star Wars ”Day
Tommy McArdleMon, May 4, 2026 at 5:26 PM UTC
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Bilie Lourd on July 13, 2025; Billie Lourd's Instagram post on May 4, 2026Credit: Getty; Billie Lourd/Instagram -
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
Lourd's mother Fisher died at 60 in 2016, before she finished filming the Star Wars sequel trilogy
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 Lourd is celebrating Star Wars Day by remembering her mother Carrie Fisher.
Lourd, 33, posted a photo to Instagram on Monday, May 4 — known as Star Wars Day — that appears to show her son Kingston, 5, and daughter Jackson, 3, watching 1977's Star Wars: A New Hope on 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 three Star Wars movies and in the 2010s sequel trilogy.
Fisher notably died at age 60 on Dec. 27, 2026, after she went into cardiac arrest on a flight from London to Los Angeles. Lourd's grandmother and Fisher's mother, Debbie Reynolds, also died from a stroke at 84 just one day later on Dec. 28 of that year. Fisher's death also came nearly one year before the release of 2017's Star Wars: The Last Jedi and well before 2019's The Rise of Skywalker, resulting in alterations made to the sequel trilogy's storyline and Leia's character arc in the most recent Star Wars movies.
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 husband Austen Rydell, tends to share her memories of Fisher's life each year on the anniversary of her death and on Star Wars Day. Last year, she posted a similar photo of her children watching Fisher perform in 1983's Return of the Jedi and utilized the same emoji caption, a nod to Star 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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Billie Lourd, Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds on Jan. 25, 2015, in Los AngelesCredit: Kevin Mazur/WireImage
The Last Jedi was the second-to-last movie Fisher appeared in after her death. She also starred in a movie titled Wonderwell, which did not release until 2023. She and her daughter Lourd worked together on the Star Wars sequel 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 on social media and 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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