She passed away this morning at 8:55, at the age of only 60.

Not to be too darkly humorous too soon, but it looks like they killed off the wrong character in The Force Awakens. Ben Solo is probably going to get orders from Snoke to kill off his mother now, to make his turn to the dark side even more complete. And they had better step up their CGI technology from Rogue One if they want to shoot that scene.

Also, if it's true that only the good die young, then Carrie was a good, good person. This makes me very curious to look up a ton of interviews of her to see what she was like, and buy that book that she recently wrote.