Fisher was born on October 29, 1967, in Burbank, California, one of two children born to Edwin "Eddie" Fisher (1928 – 2010) and Connie Stevens (née Concetta Ingoglia; born 1938), both entertainers. Her father was Jewish, whose parents immigrated to the United States from the Russian Empire, whereas her mother was Catholic and of Ashkenazi Jewish, Irish, and Italian descent. Her parents' second child together, her sister Tricia Leigh Fisher, was born in 1968, and her parents divorced in 1969, after which she and Tricia were raised by Stevens. She also had two older half-siblings, Carrie Fisher and Todd Fisher, from her father's marriage to Debbie Reynolds.