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Full Name:	Isla Fisher
Birth Name:	Isla Lang Fisher
Famous As:	Actress, model, author
Date of Birth:	February 03, 1976
Place of Birth:	Muscat, Oman, Saudia Arabia
Height:	5' 3
Nationality:	Australian
Hair Color:	Auburn
Eye Color:	Brown
Relationships:	Sir Evelyn de Rothschild, Darren Day (engaged), Sacha Baron Cohen/Ali G (engaged)
Claim to Fame:	Star of Australian soaps Home and Away (1988) & Paradise Beach (1993)

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Isla Fisher
Fisher at the 2009 Golden Globes
Born	Isla Lang Fisher 3 February 1976 (1976-02-03) (age 33) Muscat, Oman
Occupation	Actress/Author
Years active	1994–present
Domestic partner(s)	Sacha Baron Cohen (engaged)

Isla Lang Fisher (born 3 February 1976) is a Scottish-Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian television, on the short-lived soap opera Paradise Beach before playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away. She has since been known for her comedic roles in Wedding Crashers (2005),¹ Hot Rod (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008) and Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009).

Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2.1 Early career 2.2 Breakthrough 2.3 Mainstream success 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 5 Bibliography 6 References 7 External links

Early life

Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents from Bathgate and Stranraer.² They resided in Muscat because of her father's job as a banker for the United Nations. Her name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-la;³ she has four brothers.⁴ Fisher spent her early years in Bathgate before moving with her family to Perth, Western Australia, when she was six years old. Fisher has said that she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy life".¹ She began appearing in commercials on Australian television at the age of nine, before going on to win roles in popular children's television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach. She attended Methodist Ladies' College and appeared in lead roles in school productions.

Career

Early career

At the age of 18, with the help of her mother, she published two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame. From 1994 to 1997 she played the role of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away. After leaving the soap, Fisher enrolled at a theatre and arts training school in Paris and went on to appear in pantomime in the United Kingdom. She also toured with Darren Day in the musical Summer Holiday and appeared in the London theatre production, Così.

Breakthrough

In 2002 she had a part in the film version of Scooby-Doo as Mary-Jane, Shaggy's love interest (wearing a blonde wig) who is allergic to dogs. Subsequently, Fisher was taken on by an American agent.¹ A larger role in Wedding Crashers, alongside Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, in 2005 won her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the MTV Movie Awards. While promoting Wedding Crashers, she was officially crowned the 1000th guest on Australian talk show Rove on 2 August 2005. She entered the set ahead of Owen Wilson, winning the title by two metres. In 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host, in the relationship drama London co-starring Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham.

Mainstream success

In 2007, she appeared in The Lookout, a thriller co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, and Hot Rod, opposite Andy Samberg. She was scheduled to appear in The Simpsons Movie, although her appearance was cut from the final version.⁵ In 2006, she starred in Wedding Daze with Jason Biggs, Definitely, Maybe, with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, and Abigail Breslin,¹ and had a voice role in Horton Hears a Who!⁶ Fisher has also co-written a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen.¹ She starred in the movie adaption of the book Confessions of a Shopaholic, which opened on February 13, 2009.⁷ In the film, Fisher played a college graduate who works as a financial journalist in New York City to support her shopping addiction.

Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for comediennes in Hollywood.⁸

Personal life

Fisher lives with her fiancé, English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, and daughter, Olive, in London and Los Angeles.¹ She met Baron Cohen at a party in Sydney, Australia. Fisher converted to Judaism after three years of study, completing her conversion in early 2007 and taking on the Hebrew name Ayala (איילה), the Hebrew word for Doe;⁹¹⁰¹¹ she has described herself as "quite observant".¹² As of June 2009, the couple have not set a date for their wedding.¹³ On October 19, 2007, Fisher gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Olive, in Los Angeles.¹⁴

Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian" and that she has a "laid-back attitude to life" that she feels "very Australian."³ Her mother and siblings live and work in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany.³ Fisher is allergic to cats, pollen and butterscotch. While filming Scooby Doo, her character was to sneeze while Scooby was around, therefore to make the sneezes believable, the crew would spray pollen up her nostrils and she would sneeze believably on screen. This also caused lots of problems as they had to take frequent breaks and she would sneeze in the wrong takes frequently.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1994-1997	Home and Away	Shannon Reed	Nominated - Most Popular Actress (1996 and 1997 Logies)
1999	Oliver Twist	Bet
2001	Swimming Pool - Der Tod feiert mit	Kim
2002	Scooby-Doo	Mary Jane
2003	The Wannabes	Kirsty
	Dallas 362	Redhead
	Spyz	-	A short film for Da Ali G Show
2004	I ♥ Huckabees	Heather
2005	Wedding Crashers	Gloria Cleary	MTV Movie Awards for Best Breakthrough Performance Nominated – Teen Choice Awards for Movies - Choice Breakout Female Nominated – Teen Choice Awards for Movies - Choice Hissy Fit
	London	Rebecca
2006	Wedding Daze	Katie
2007	The Lookout	Luvlee
	Wedding Daze	Katie
	Hot Rod	Denise
2008	Definitely, Maybe	April Hoffman
	Horton Hears a Who	Dr. Mary Lou Larue	voice only
2009	Confessions of a Shopaholic	Rebecca Bloomwood	Nominated – Teen Choice Awards for Choice Movie Actress - Comedy
2011	Rango		Voice

Bibliography

• Seduced by Fame, 27 June 1996, Puffin Books, ISBN 0-14-025431-5
• Bewitched, 5 September 1996, Puffin Books, ISBN 0-14-025575-3

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Isla Fisher

• Isla Fisher at the Internet Movie Database

Persondata
NAME	Fisher, Isla
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Fisher, Isla Lang
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actor
DATE OF BIRTH	1976-2-3
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muscat, Oman
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH