Childhood and family
Billie Catherine Lourd is the only child of Carrie Fisher, who went down in the history of world cinema as the performer of the role of Princess Leia in the legendary Star Wars, and Hollywood scout Bryan Lourd.
Billie Lourd's mother is actress Carrie Fisher.
Billie was born on July 17, 1992 in Los Angeles, and while her mother was busy filming, she spent a lot of time with her grandmother, actress Debbie Reynolds, who was repeatedly nominated for a Golden Globe and an Oscar. Billy's grandfather was the cult musician Eddie Fisher, whose descendants emigrated to America from revolutionary Russia at the beginning of the 20th century.
Billie Lourd as a child with her mother
Billy's parents never married; their relationship lasted only a few years and ended in 1994, after Brian Lourd decided to admit his homosexuality. Billy's father later met the man of his life, Bruce Bozzi, co-owner of The Palm, a chain of elite Italian restaurants, with whom he married.
Carrie Fisher and Billie Lourd
Both Billy's mother and grandmother were world-class stars whose lives were under constant surveillance by the paparazzi. Carrie has repeatedly become the heroine of scandalous chronicles, for many years she struggled with drug addiction and received the nickname “Cocaine Leia.”
Billie Lourd with her mother and grandmother
The Star Wars princess saw the reasons for her problems in the constant stress that she experienced on the set of the cult saga, in which her partner was Harrison Ford. Carrie devoted a lot of energy and time to people who, like her, suffered from drug addiction, and her personal life, like the personal life of her mother, Debbie Reynolds, did not work out. Wanting to protect Billie from the side effects of popularity, both women insisted that she choose a different profession.
Biographical information
Nastya Stetsevyat is an ordinary girl from Kyiv who came to the Russian capital to take part in the most popular television project “Dom-2” and become famous. True, the main version of Anastasia’s arrival on reality TV is to find her soulmate. The Kiev resident is 27 years old, has a diploma from a prestigious university, and has her own clothing store in Kyiv.
Where are you from and your family?
Nastya was born in Kyiv on February 13, 1992. Her parents are ordinary Kiev residents, they always supported their beloved daughter, did not deny her anything, and raised her in an atmosphere of trust and love. Anastasia grew up as an ordinary child, like all children, she went to school and had many friends.
How was your childhood and youth?
Nastya spent her childhood and teenage years in her native Kyiv. The girl did well at school and attended various clubs after school. Nastya loved to sing, dance, and listen to good music. At one time the girl was fond of embroidery and knitting. True, Nastya’s real passion was fashion.
As a teenager, Anastasia could spend hours twirling in front of the mirror, trying on different outfits. Sometimes the girl changed clothes several times and went out for a walk. Nastya liked to catch the admiring glances of passers-by and attract the attention of strangers. When Anastasia became an adult, her childhood passion for things helped her open her own clothing store.
At the age of 16, Stetsevyat began watching the TV show “Dom-2” broadcast on TNT. Anastasia rooted for her favorite heroes and tried not to miss a single episode of this project. At one time, she even mentally imagined herself in the place of the participants in “House-2”. Her dream was destined to come true only after 11 years. At 27, Nastya, having gone through all the castings and interviews, managed to get on a reality show.
What kind of education did you receive?
Stetsevyat studied at an ordinary Kyiv school, and after graduating she decided to enter a university. The choice fell on the B. Grinchenko University. At this educational institution, Nastya studied at the Faculty of Economics and Informatics. Mastering the chosen specialty was not easy, but no difficulties stopped Stetsevyat.
In 2014, the girl graduated from the university with honors. Nastya decided not to stop there; a few years later she entered the National Defense University of Ukraine. In this educational institution, the girl studied at the military department to become an officer.
Participation in television projects
Nastya has a small but effective experience of participating in various television reality shows. Stetsevyat managed to take part in such Ukrainian television projects as “The Young Lady-Peasant Woman”, “Hearts of Three”, “Goddess of Shopping”. Anastasia appeared on television and immediately won the hearts of millions of viewers.
Having become a Ukrainian TV star, the girl went to Dom-2 in Moscow. Nastya wanted to communicate with young people from Russia, and if possible, then also find that one and only one.
Parish and life in “House-2”
Anastasia managed to get on the most popular Russian reality show, which has been broadcast on the TNT channel for several years in a row, on March 11, 2020. According to the official version, Stetsevyat came to the charismatic young man Simon Mardanshin. Nastya studied Sam's character well. Before coming to Dom-2, she communicated with this participant in the television project on social networks for about a year.
Anastasia liked Simon, and the girl from Kyiv came to Moscow to get to know him better, communicate, and if possible, become his bride. True, Sam never suffered from a lack of attention from the female half of “House-2”. When Stetsevyat got to the project, Simon was already in a relationship with Nastya Yakub. The Kiev woman decided to win Mardanshin’s heart at all costs. Stetsevyat tried to seduce Simon, to quarrel between him and Yakub, but nothing worked for her; the girl never achieved Sam’s love.
The Kiev resident did not want to leave the project. On the advice of the reality show host, Ksenia Borodina, she tried to build a relationship with another participant in “House-2”, Zakhar Salenko. No matter how hard Nastya tried, she failed to seduce this guy. Stetsevyat decided not to give up and try again to start an affair, but this time with Fedya Strelkov.
The hosts of the TV project even sent Nastya to the Seychelles on “Love Island” so that she could be alone with her new lover, away from the passions boiling on the reality show. Indeed, Nastya soon began an affair with Fedor. The lovers often quarreled, and at the beginning of September 2020 they broke up.
The beginning of a creative biography
After graduating from high school, Billie became a student at Wesleyan College, which emphasizes the study of “gender studies.” According to the girl, she wanted to feel the atmosphere of free-thinking traditional for colleges. But Billie did not take into account that after a childhood spent in a family with more than liberal views, college in Connecticut would not live up to her expectations.
Billie Lourd's height is 155 cm
So after her first year, Billie transferred to the Department of Psychology at New York University, where she successfully graduated in 2014. Around the same time, her acting career began.
She came to the casting for Star Wars: The Force Awakens hoping to play Princess Leia in her youth, but received the supporting role of Lieutenant Connix. In the film, which premiered in 2020, Billie starred in the company of her mother, Harrison Ford, Domhnall Glisson and Max von Sydow.
Billie Lourd on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Carrie Fisher would later note that her daughter, who had no film experience, felt amazingly confident on the set. The film set an absolute record for the number of nominations for the MTV Movie Award and Saturn, and, although some critics expressed dissatisfaction with the simplified storylines and exaggerated style of the 70s, it became one of the three highest-grossing films in the history of Hollywood cinema.
Billie's next work was more noticeable than her first experience. In the 2020 comedy youth television project “Scream Queens,” the heir to the acting dynasty received the role of one of the stupid students who are hunted by bloody movie maniacs.
Still from the series “Scream Queens”
The series starred Emma Roberts, Abigail Breslin and Keke Palmer, and viewers also enjoyed the performances of Oliver Hudson, the son of the inimitable Goldie Hawn, and Taylor Lautner, the star of the famous vampire saga.
The transcendent humor of the brainchild of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk, famously balancing on the brink of absurdity, did not leave fans of the “black” comedy genre indifferent. The creators of the parody cocktail attacked absolutely all the cliches and cliches of American cinema, not ignoring the topics of modern fashion, LGBT, iPhone addiction and the desire of young students to become glamorous divas in the image and likeness of Kim Kardashian.
Billie Lourd on the set of Scream Queens
Even the most critical viewers were forced to admit that the young guard of Hollywood played on the same level as Kirstie Alley and Jamie Lee Curtis. Being, like Billy, a representative of a glorious acting dynasty, Jamie noted that the young actress is unusually beautiful and talented.
Family tragedy
It would seem that the life of a star child, which Billy was, is insured from shocks deeper than an unsuccessfully chosen image for another glossy photo shoot or a quarrel with a friend.
However, the young actress faced a terrible test: in two days in December 2020, she lost the two most dear people in the world - her mother and grandmother. On December 23, 2020, Carrie Fisher was returning from London. During the flight, the actress's neighbor noticed that she was not breathing, and she was taken straight from Los Angeles airport to the intensive care unit at Ronald Reagan Medical Center, where she died four days later.
The results of the post-mortem examination did not help determine the cause of death, but doctors revealed the presence of a whole cocktail of drugs, including heroin and cocaine, in the actress’s body.
Carrie Fisher was only 60 years old; many filmmakers expressed condolences over her death. Thus, Mia Farrow said that Carrie was her favorite actress, and Stephen Fry noted that she was one of the brightest and wittiest people of all whom fate brought him together. "I want to be with my Carrie." This phrase is the last words of Debbie Reynolds, who died on December 28, 2016 from a massive stroke. Billy only has his father left.
American Horror Story
Just a few months after her terrible loss, Billie landed the role of Winter Anderson in the seventh season of the luxury horror project American Horror Story. According to the actress, it was her work that helped her survive the tragedy. In “Cult,” which combines traditional features of the horror genre and socio-political satire, the young actress collaborated with Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters, and the list of guest stars included the names of Emma Roberts and Lena Dunham.
Billie Lourd in the TV series “American Horror Story”
The angelic expression on the face of the heroine Billie from the very first episode led viewers to the idea that the sweet nanny Winter is not at all as sweet as she wants to seem, but the solution to her secret came as a shock to even the most experienced viewer. "American Horror Story". Season 7 trailer According to an analysis of reviews from film critics and audience reviews, Billy's character has become one of the most sinister and unexpected in the entire history of the famous show.
Personal life of Billie Lourd
The only thing known about the details of Billie’s personal life before the start of her film career is that she dated a young man who had nothing to do with Hollywood.
According to some sources, Lourd met a young man while studying at the university. But the relationship did not stand the test of time and popularity. The actress has been in a romantic relationship with her co-star in the comedy project “Scream Queens,” Taylor Lautner, since the fall of 2020.
Billie Lourd and Taylor Lautner
According to the young star, Taylor’s support, along with what she loved, helped her overcome grief, but she could not fill the void that arose in her heart after the loss of her mother and grandmother. This, according to fans, was the reason for the separation of Billy and Taylor.
After the end of her relationship with Lautner, Billie began dating Austin Rydell. Billy posts photos with his lover on his Instagram. The actress seems happy, and in the summer of 2020, she and Austin became guests at the wedding ceremony of their mutual friends, actors Colton Haynes and Jeff Leatham.
Personal life
Little is known about Kreslina’s relationships with men; the girl prefers not to advertise the details of her personal life. There were rumors that Nastya was dating the second member of the group, Nikolai Kostylev, but the young people did not comment on these speculations.
The eyes of Anastasia Kreslina
Fans of the girl’s work are also concerned with the question of why the singer has different eyes in the videos, or rather different colors. Followers often leave comments under the artist’s photo on Instagram asking if she wears contact lenses. Anastasia herself ignores such posts, and it is not known for sure whether she intentionally changes her eye color, or whether she has heterochromia (different iris colors).
There are many interesting pictures on Kreslina’s social network, mainly from the filming of music videos and from her personal archive. Although the girl does not pamper her subscribers with photos in a swimsuit and does not provide information about her height and weight, even without this it is clear that Nastya keeps her figure in shape.
Billie Lourd now
By the end of 2020, Billy's filmography was replenished with another role as Lieutenant Connix in the science-fiction action film from the Star Wars series and a supporting role in the film Billionaires Club. In a stylish biographical drama with thriller elements from young director James Cox, Billie collaborated with Ansel Elgort, Emma Roberts and Kevin Spacey.
Billie Lourd on the set of the film “The Billionaires Club”
Despite the economic theme that became fashionable in the early 2000s and the brilliant cast, the film was not particularly successful, and some critics compared it with “The Wolf of Wall Street” and the comparisons were not in favor "Millionaires Club". However, critics attributed the commercial failure of the film to the name of the disgraced Kevin Spacey in the credits.
In the eighth season of the horror project American Horror Story, released in 2020, Billie played the role of Mallory, the companion of Leslie Grossman’s heroine. Also, in addition to Sarah Paulson, Evan Peters and Kathy Bates, the show featured Cody Fern and the famous English Diva, Dame Joan Collins.
The very first episodes of “Apocalypse” did not leave the slightest doubt that this season would become one of the most worthy parts of the legendary anthology. The director's chair for this episode went to Bradley Booker, who participated in the creation of the series "Losers" and "Nip/Tuck."
Billie Lourd in American Horror Story: Apocalypse
Parallels with legends about the coming of the Antichrist, threatening stories about secret societies of Satanists and the Illuminati, as well as all kinds of references to the modern political world order and the dangers of flirting with artificial intelligence, along with the masterful and well-coordinated work of the actors, became the key to the popularity of the season.
Since the end of 2020, Billie has been filming the ninth part of AIU. The actress posts work photos on Instagram, which is followed by more than a million people, but does not tell fans about the character of her character and her story. Billie Lourd's company in the next story from Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk traditionally included Sarah Paulson, Emma Roberts and Evan Peters, and Cody Fern also took part in the project again.
Eilish now
The popularity of the young performer is growing steadily. Today her concerts attract tens of thousands of spectators. At the end of 2018, as part of the 1by 1 Tour, Billie performed in various cities in America and Canada.
At the beginning of 2020, she was on tour in Germany, Sweden, France, Italy, Switzerland, and Great Britain. Her participation in major music festivals in Austria, Belgium, and the USA is planned for the near future.
In January, the track When I was older premiered. The star was inspired to write the lyrical composition by the film “Roma”. On March 29, the album When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? was released. It included 13 singles, including Listen Before I go, Bury a friend.
In three weeks, the video for the song Bad guy collected more than 100 million views. In March, the star published a teaser video for the song You should see me in a crown. The clip was created by the studio of Japanese contemporary artist Takashi Murakami.
Fame makes Eilish an influential person in the fashion industry. Her clothing style is copied by teenagers. The girl admits that she receives branded items and silver jewelry (chains, rings) as gifts from designers. She recently signed a contract with the Next Models modeling agency.
