Isla Lang Fisher is an Australian actress and 
author, was born on February 3, 1976. Her name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-la
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.
At the age of eighteen, with the help of her mother, she wrote two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, that became bestsellers. She began acting on Australian Television, and is best known for her role of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away and for her role in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
In 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host in the offbeat relationship drama London co-starring Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham. 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.
In 2008, she starred in Wedding Daze with Jason Biggs, Definitely, Maybe, with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, and Abigail Breslin, and had a voice role in Horton Hears a Who! Fisher has also co-written a treatment for a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen. She has signed up to star in the movie adaption of the book Confessions of a Shopaholic, the filming of which started in January 2008.
Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for comediennes in Hollywood.
Isla Fisher Personal Life
Fisher resides in Los Angeles, California, as well as in London,[1] with her fiancé, English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Fisher met Cohen at a party in Sydney, Australia. Fisher converted to Judaism after three years of study, in advance of her marriage to Cohen. As of March 2007, the couple have not set a date for their wedding.
Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian" and that she has a "laid-back attitude to life" that she feels is "very Australian." Her mother and siblings live and work in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany.
On October 19, 2007, Fisher gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Olive, in Los Angeles.
author, was born on February 3, 1976. Her name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-laShe 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.
At the age of eighteen, with the help of her mother, she wrote two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, that became bestsellers. She began acting on Australian Television, and is best known for her role of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away and for her role in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
In 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host in the offbeat relationship drama London co-starring Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham. 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.
In 2008, she starred in Wedding Daze with Jason Biggs, Definitely, Maybe, with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, and Abigail Breslin, and had a voice role in Horton Hears a Who! Fisher has also co-written a treatment for a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen. She has signed up to star in the movie adaption of the book Confessions of a Shopaholic, the filming of which started in January 2008.
Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for comediennes in Hollywood.
Isla Fisher Personal Life
Fisher resides in Los Angeles, California, as well as in London,[1] with her fiancé, English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Fisher met Cohen at a party in Sydney, Australia. Fisher converted to Judaism after three years of study, in advance of her marriage to Cohen. As of March 2007, the couple have not set a date for their wedding.
Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian" and that she has a "laid-back attitude to life" that she feels is "very Australian." Her mother and siblings live and work in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany.
On October 19, 2007, Fisher gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Olive, in Los Angeles.
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