We have written for you the life of actress Isla Fisher, who is curious about her private life as well as her marvelous success in the books she has published, the plays and films she has appeared in.
Her full name is Isla Lang Fisher, she was born on February 3, 1976 in Muscat, Oman. She was born the daughter of her mother, Elspeth Reid, of Scotland, and her father, Brian Fisher, a Scottish bank employee. Fisher has four brothers. Fisher moved with her family, first to Bathgate, Scotland, and then to Perth, Western Australia, when she was six years old. Here, Fisher says she grew up "wonderful" with a very outdoor life, also considers herself a feminist. Fisher's father lived in Frankfurt, Germany, while her mother and siblings lived together in Athens, Greece. Fisher first attended Swanbourne Primary School, then was educated at the Methodist Women's College in Perth. She has appeared in lead roles in school musicals such as "Little Shop of Horrors".
Fisher, who first appeared on the big screen at the age of 9, also appeared in commercials on Australian television. She made her professional debut in 1993 with a guest role in the children's television series "Bay City" and "Paradise Beach". At the age of 18, with the help of her mother, she published two teen novels, "Enchanted by Fame" and "Seduced". She said in an interview in 2005 that if she hadn't been an actress, she would probably have been a writer.
From 1994 to 1997, she played Shannon Reed, a young, insecure bisexual woman who develops anorexia in the Australian soap opera "Home and Away." Her performance in the series earned her a nomination for the Most Popular New Talent at the 1995 Logie Awards and a nomination for Most Popular Actress at the 1997 ceremony. In an interview with The Sun-Herald newspaper in 1996, Fisher said that working is difficult and stressful, and that they also work 15 hours a day, and added that she is still very grateful and that she has improved thanks to the series.
Then, at the age of 21, Fisher attended "L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq", a theater and arts education school in Paris, where she studied clown, mime, musical theater and commedia dell'arte. She also continued to play pantomime in the UK, she. Additionally, she appeared in the London production of the play "Cosi" with Darren Day in the musical play "Summer Holiday". That same year, she starred alongside Kristen Miller, John Hopkins and James McAvoy in the German slasher movie "The Swimming Pool" as an unfortunate member of an elite group of international students.
The following year, Fisher starred in the fantasy action-adventure-comedy "Scooby-Doo"(2002) as Mary Jane, the love interest of cowardly sloth Shaggy Rogers. Although the film received negative reviews, it was a huge commercial success, grossing worldwide. She later appeared in supporting roles in the independent film "Dallas 362" (2003), directed by Scott Caan, and in the Australian comedy "The Wannabes" (2003). The following year, she had an impressive minor role in the black comedy film "I Heart Huckabees" (2004), directed by David O. Russell.
Fisher's breakthrough came when she starred alongside Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson in the David Dobkin-directed comedy "Wedding Crashers" (2005). The film, which was received positively by the critics, was a great success with its worldwide revenue. Her performance earned her MTV Movie Awards Breakthrough Performance Award and two Teen Choice Award nominations.
That same year, she appeared in the independent romantic drama film "London" (2005), written and directed by Hunter Richards, with Jessica Biel, Chris Evans, and Jason Statham. Later, she co-starred with Jason Biggs in the romantic comedy movie "Wedding Daze" (2006), written and directed by Michael Ian Black. While the film received mediocre reviews from critics, it was praised for the excellent performances of Biggs and Fisher. The following year, she co-starred with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode in the crime thriller "The Lookout" (2007), written and directed by Scott Frank. While the movie was released in limited numbers, it was positively received. Later that year, she starred with Andy Samberg in the comedy "Hot Rod" (2007), directed by Akiva Schaffer, as her college graduate neighbor, whom an amateur stuntman falls in love with. The film was a box office failure and received mixed reviews.
She next starred with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, and Abigail Breslin in the romantic comedy film "Absolutely, Maybe" (2008), written and directed by Adam Brooks, as a cheating daughter who becomes romantically involved with an ambitious political consultant. The film was a commercial success at its budget and received mixed reviews from critics. Also, the computer-animated adventure comedy "Horton Hears a Who!" starring Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Will Arnett. She also voiced the character of a professor in a city full of microscopic creatures. The film, which received positive feedback, also achieved success at the box office.
Fisher made her lead role in the romantic comedy film "Confessions of a Shopaholic" (2009), directed by PJ Hogan, in which she plays a college graduate working as a financial reporter in New York to support her shopping addiction. Upon its release, the film garnered moderate reviews from critics and was a commercial success. She received her third Teen Choice Award nomination for her performance.
The following year, she appeared in the British black comedy "Burke and the Hare" (2010), directed by John Landis, as a young ex-prostitute and the love interest of one of the famous characters, alongside Simon Pegg and Andy Serkis. She then voiced a hot-tempered but kind-hearted desert iguana who befriends an eccentric chameleon in the 3D animated western action comedy movie "Rango"(2011), directed by Gore Verbinski. She appeared in the film alongside Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin, and Bill Nighy and garnered critical acclaim. Fisher won the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Female Animation for her role in the movie, which earned US$245.7 million worldwide.
Later, Fisher starred in Leslye Headland's comedy "The Bachelorette" (2012), with Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, and Rebel Wilson. With a production budget of US$3 million, the film was a commercial success. Another voiceover role came in the same year, voicing the 'Tooth Fairy' character in the animated fantasy action-adventure movie "Rise of the Guardians" (2012). Her performance earned her a nomination for the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Animated Actress.
Fisher's reputation increased considerably in 2013. Initially, she played the role of an ambitious social climber and the mistress of an upper-class socialite, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire, in the romantic drama movie "The Great Gatsby," based on the novel of the same name and directed by Baz Luhrmann. While Fisher's role was described as brief, the film was a huge commercial success around the world. Her performance earned her nominations for Best Supporting Actress from the AACTA Awards, the Australian Film Critics Association and the Australian Film Critics Circle Awards.
Her second successful film of the same year came with her role in the heist thriller "Now You See Me" directed by Louis Leterrier, with Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent and Morgan Freeman. The film was a commercial success, grossing more than $350 million worldwide.
Also in 2013, Fisher appeared in the black comedy crime film "Life of Crime" based on the novel, along with Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, and Will Forte, as the mistress of a rich man who refuses to pay the ransom of his kidnapped wife. The film was able to garner positive reviews from critics, but did not smile at the box office. That same year, she appeared as a nine-episode actress in the fourth season of the Netflix tv sitcom "Arrested Development". Along with the cast of the sitcom Fisher earned a Screen Actors Guild Award nomination for Outstanding Performance in a Comedy Series. Fisher described her work on the series as the highlight of her career.
Two years later, she got the lead role in "Visions" (2015), an independent supernatural horror film, as a pregnant woman who begins experiencing supernatural manifestations after moving into a bond with her husband. In 2016, Fisher starred in two more action comedy films. The first was the spy action comedy "Grimsby" directed by Louis Leterrier and the action comedy "Keeping Up with the Joneses" directed by Greg Mottola. Despite the production budget of both films, they did not do well at the box office.
She then starred alongside Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in the neo-noir psychological thriller "Nocturnal Animals(2016)," adapted from the novel and directed by Tom Ford. The film received critical acclaim and critical acclaim. Fisher's third book and first children's novel, "Marge in Charge," about a mischievous rainbow-haired babysitter, was published in 2016. While the book was well received, Fisher later wrote three more sequels, including "Marge in Charge" in 2017. and the Pirate Baby", "Marge and the Great Train Rescue" in 2017 and "Marge in Charge and the Stolen Treasure" in 2018.
Also that year, she starred in "Tag,"(2018) a comedy film based on a true story and directed by Jeff Tomsic. The film received mixed reviews and made a healthy commercial profit at the box office. The following year, she starred in the comedy "The Beach Bum"(2019) written and directed by Harmony Korine, with Matthew McConaughey, Snoop Dogg, Jimmy Buffett, Zac Efron, and Martin Lawrence. It was considered a complete box office disappointment. That same year, she made a guest appearance in an episode of the tenth season of HBO's "Curb Your Enthusiasm."
She later appeared in the satirical black comedy film "Greed"(2019) and the comedy "Blithe Spirit"(2020). Fisher appeared in the Walt Disney Pictures fantasy comedy-drama movie "Godmothered," which aired on Disney+ on December 4 of that year. The following year, she voiced herself in the animated adventure comedy "Back to the Outback" (2021). She subsequently starred as Mary in the television comedy-drama series "Wolf Like Me" (2022).
In 2023, she will appear as the voice of Maggie in the comedy movie "Strays" directed by Josh Greenbaum. The movie is scheduled to be released on June 9, 2023.
Personal life
Fisher met British comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen in Sydney in 2001. The couple got engaged in 2004 and married on March 15, 2010 in Paris, France. The couple has three children, a daughter named Olive, born in 2007, a daughter named Elula, born in 2010, and a son named Montgomery, born in 2015.
In 2014 and 2015, Fisher announced that she was donating her signature shoes to the "Small Steps Project Celebrity Shoe Auction." Fisher has been involved in fundraising, outreach, or fundraising work in a variety of areas. She also gave her both material and moral support.