Isla Fisher

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Isla Fisher

Fisher in the 2005 film London
Birth name Isla Lang Fisher
Born February 3, 1976 (age 31)
Muscat, Oman
Notable roles Gloria Cleary in Wedding Crashers

Isla Lang Fisher (born February 3, 1976) is an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian television, and is since perhaps best known for her role in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers.[1] Fisher is scheduled to appear in several more Hollywood films.

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman to Scottish parents and moved with her family to Perth, Western Australia, where she grew up, when she was nine months old.[1] Her name, after a Scottish island, is pronounced "Eye-Lah"; she has two brothers.[2] Fisher has said that she had a "great" upbringing with a "very outdoorsy life".[1] She began appearing in commercials on Australian television at the age of nine, and became known for playing Shannon Reed on the popular TV soap opera Home and Away.[1]

[edit] Career

At the age of eighteen, with the help of her mother, she wrote two teen novels that became bestsellers.[1] In 2002, she had a part in in the film version of Scooby-Doo as Mary-Jane, Shaggy's love interest, and subsequently was taken on by an American agent.[1] A larger role in Wedding Crashers in 2005 won her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the MTV Movie Awards. While promoting Wedding Crashers (co-starring Owen Wilson), she was officially crowned the 1000th guest on Australian talk show Rove on August 2, 2005. She entered the set ahead of Wilson, winning the title by two meters.

In 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host in the offbeat relationship drama London alongside Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham. Her most recent role is in The Lookout, a thriller co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode. She will next appear in The Pleasure of Your Company, co-starring Jason Biggs, Hot Rod, opposite Andy Samberg, Definitely, Maybe, with Rachel Weisz and Abigail Breslin,[1] and will have a voice role in Horton Hears a Who![3] Fisher has also co-written a treatment for a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled Cookie Clean.[1]

[edit] Personal life

Fisher resides in Los Angeles, as well as London and Europe,[1] with her fiancé, English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. She has converted to Orthodox Judaism in advance of her marriage to Cohen, who is Jewish.[4][5][6] As of March 2007, the two have not yet set a date for their wedding.[7]

Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian" and that she has a "laid-back attitude to life" that she feels is "very Australian".[2] Her mother and siblings live and work in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany.[2]

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[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Roberts, Sheila. "Isla Fisher Interview, The Lookout", MoviesOnline, 2007-03-25. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  2. ^ a b c "Isla an Aussie at heart", Sunday Mail, 2007-03-25. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  3. ^ Finn, Natalie. "Family Guy Has Burnett Feeling Copyrighteous", E! Online, 2007-03-16. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  4. ^ Hancock, Noelle. "Sacha & Isla: Borat Star’s Real-Life Love", US Magazine, 2006-11-21. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  5. ^ Simpson, Richard, Clair Weaver. "'I is marrying me Julie'", This Is London, 2004-03-04. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  6. ^ Westbrook, Caroline. "Staines' massive wedding?", Something Jewish, 2004-08-03. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
  7. ^ Hellard, Peta. "Pair too busy for marriage", Herald Sun, 2007-03-20. Retrieved on 2007-03-26.

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