Joely Fisher's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) 'Til Death Joy Stark Ellen Paige Clark Wild Card Zoe Busiek Grosse Pointe Hope Lustig Baby Bob Lizzy Colli… Normal, Ohio Pamela Ther… Danny Molly

Main Movie Roles 2007 - Cougar Club 2005 - Slingshot 1999 - Inspector Gadget 1997 - Family Plan 1994 - Mixed Nuts 1994 - The Mask

BIOGRAPHY:

Growing up in a Beverly Hills mansion, well-fed, well-educated, and well-traveled - what could be more perfect? But absentee father Eddie Fisher (I), an alcoholic and self-confessed drug addict, and sexpot mother Connie Stevens introducing a succession of men into her life made growing up very complicated. Childhood was emotional and problem filled. Having so vivacious a mother produced jealousy and an eating disorder and by adolescence she was overweight and playing the "fat friend" in summer stock and on TV. Entertaining was however in her blood, and her first show business gig was in Las Vegas at the age of 7. Two years later she and her sister Tricia Leigh Fisher joined her mother in a nightclub act. Travel became a part of her life as the act toured the world. Schooling was sporadic, with many different schools and tutors, until high school when she and Tricia entered the Beverly Hills High School. But even there the fast lane, experimenting with drinking, drugs, smoking. Also after school jobs in an ice cream parlor and as a receptionist. A semester at the University of Paris was followed by Emerson College, but she left before graduating to start a serious acting career. Her weight cost her parts - she went into therapy, lost weight, and turned the career corner with I'll Do Anything (1994). On the personal front she reestablished relations with her father by 'dropping in' unannounced in New York as she was traveling to the University of Paris, and forced her way into his life.


TRIVIA:

• Friend of 'Mariska Hargitay' (qv).
• On February 2, 2006 Joely and Chris Duddy welcomed their 2nd daughter True Harlow Fisher-Duddy at their LA home. True was born at 1:30am and weighed in at 7lbs 12ozs. True joined big sis Skylar Grace,5, and half brothers Cameron Duddy,20, and Colin Duddy,18 Duddy's children from his previous marriage.
• Daughter of 'Connie Stevens' (qv) and 'Eddie Fisher (I)' (qv), raised by her mother.
• Ex-half-sister-in-law of 'Paul Simon (I)' (qv).
• (14 June 2001) Daughter, Skylar Grace Fisher-Duddy, was born at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, weighing 6 pounds, 13 ounces.
• Sister of 'Tricia Leigh Fisher' (qv)
• Half-sister of actress 'Carrie Fisher' (qv) and 'Todd Fisher (I)' (qv).
• Attended the University of Paris & Emerson College