Growing up in a Beverly Hills mansion, well-fed, well-educated, and well-traveled - what could be more perfect? But absentee father Eddie Fisher, 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. 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.



Daughter of Connie Stevens and Eddie Fisher, raised by her mother. Joely didn't know that she had another sister until sometime after she had seen Star Wars (1977) and was told that Princess Leia was her half-sister, Carrie. Friend of Mariska Hargitay. Niece of John Megna. 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. Adopted a baby girl, named Olivia Luna, who was born in September 2008, weighing 7.5 lbs. and 19.5 inches long.