--- description: Fisher earned her first Emmy nomination for a guests pot on the second season of 30 Rock, the show created by Tina Fey. title: Tina Fey Remembers Carrie Fisher: 'I Feel So Lucky That I Got to Meet Her' image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt178d2920304c7700/6988b40f196cf4d28a03e5e9/tina-fey-carrie-fisher.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Tina Fey Remembers Carrie Fisher: 'I Feel So Lucky That I Got to Meet Her' by [Matt Vella](/author/matt-vella/) ## Matt Vella Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 27, 2016 7:03 PM CUT  Tina Fey on 30 ROCK "Mazel Tov, Dummies!" Episode 707. Tina Fey on 30 ROCK "Mazel Tov, Dummies!" Episode 707.Ali Goldstein—NBC/Getty Images by [Matt Vella](/author/matt-vella/) ## Matt Vella Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 27, 2016 7:03 PM CUT [Carrie Fisher](http://people.com/tag/carrie-fisher/ "undefined"), the actress best known as [_Star Wars_‘ Princess Leia](http://time.com/4354232/carrie-fisher-princess-leia-wax-figure-photos/ "undefined"), died Dec. 27 after [suffering a heart attack](http://people.com/tag/carrie-fisher/ "undefined"), a family spokesman confirmed. The pioneering actress and writer was 60. Among her many awards, Fisher earned her first Emmy nomination for a guest spot on the second season of _30 Rock_ in 2007\. She played Rosemary Howard, Liz Lemon’s (Tina Fey) childhood idol who turned out to be hilariously unhinged. She delivered a memorable version of one of her famous lines as Leia. In a statement to TIME, Fey said: --- > “” --- _—with Sam Lansky_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4618491/carrie-fisher-dead-tina-fey/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4618491/carrie-fisher-dead-tina-fey/"},"headline":"Tina Fey Remembers Carrie Fisher: 'I Feel So Lucky That I Got to Meet Her'","datePublished":"2016-12-27T19:03:56.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T02:28:48.608Z","description":"The two actor-writers worked together on the second season of 30 Rock","url":"https://time.com/4618491/carrie-fisher-dead-tina-fey/","keywords":["Television","movies","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt178d2920304c7700/6988b40f196cf4d28a03e5e9/tina-fey-carrie-fisher.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Matt Vella","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/matt-vella/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt178d2920304c7700/6988b40f196cf4d28a03e5e9/tina-fey-carrie-fisher.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"30 Rock - Season 7","caption":"30 Rock - Season 7","creditText":"Ali Goldstein—NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4618491/carrie-fisher-dead-tina-fey/","name":"Tina Fey Remembers Carrie Fisher: 'I Feel So Lucky That I Got to Meet Her'"}}]}] ```