She appeared in the ninth episode of the eleventh and final season of the NBC sitcom Will & Grace as Fiona, the granddaughter of the character that her real-life grandmother, Debbie Reynolds, portrayed during the show's original run. Murphy stated that her work in 1984 impressed him so much that he decided to write Lourd her own miniseries. Lourd also returned to American Horror Story for its ninth season, 1984, portraying an aerobics enthusiast punk rocker Montana Duke. In 2019, Lourd played Gigi in Booksmart, a high school comedy film directed by Olivia Wilde. She returned to American Horror Story for its eighth season, Apocalypse, playing Mallory, a powerful witch. She also portrayed Linda Kasabian, a former member of the Manson Family cult. She joined the cast of American Horror Story in the role of Winter Anderson for the series' seventh season. In 2016, Lourd returned to Scream Queens for its second season. Its release was put off due to claims of sexual harassment committed by actor Kevin Spacey, who stars in the film. In December 2015, Lourd had joined the cast of the American biographical crime-drama film Billionaire Boys Club, in the role of Rosanna, love interest of Kyle Biltmore. I didn't know how he was doing this! The next week I was in New Orleans. The next day, they told me, you know that offer you didn't sound too excited about? It's an offer, not an audition. I didn't think he wanted to hire me, I knew that's not how things worked. I thought he wanted me to audition, and so I was just very relaxed and casual about the news. In December 2015, Lourd spoke about her initial meeting with Scream Queens creator Ryan Murphy: Lourd's character, a rich and disaffected sorority girl known as Chanel #3, wears earmuffs as an homage to Fisher's iconic "cinnamon buns" hairstyle from the original Star Wars film. In February 2015, Lourd was cast in the Fox horror-comedy series Scream Queens. Lourd also played her mother's character for a brief flashback in the film in which her face was digitally replaced by Fisher's likeness, using imagery from Return of the Jedi.
Lourd also appeared in the second installment, Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017), and the third, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019).
On The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2017, she said that she auditioned for the lead role of Rey, which ultimately went to Daisy Ridley. Lourd played the role of Lieutenant Connix in the 2015 Star Wars sequel film The Force Awakens. She graduated with a self-designed degree in "Art and Business as Religion" from New York University Gallatin School of Individualized Study, in 2014. Lourd attended high school at Harvard-Westlake School in Los Angeles. She was dressed by Chanel for the occasion. In 2008 Lourd was a debutante at Le Bal des débutantes at the Hôtel de Crillon in Paris. Eddie Fisher stated in his autobiography ( Been There Done That) that his granddaughter's name is Catherine Fisher Lourd and her nickname is "Billy". Writer Bruce Wagner is Lourd's godfather. From her mother's side, she is of Russian-Jewish and Scots-Irish/ English descent. She has a sister, Ava, from her father's marriage to Bruce Bozzi, whom her father legally adopted. Lourd is also the only grandchild of actress Debbie Reynolds and singer Eddie Fisher, and the niece of Todd Fisher, Joely Fisher, and Tricia Leigh Fisher, all of whom have worked in show business. Billie Catherine Lourd was born July 17, 1992, in Los Angeles, California, the only child of actress Carrie Fisher and talent agent Bryan Lourd.
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