Isla Fisher

At 48 years old, Isla Fisher has this physical status:

Isla Lang Fisher (born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress and author who began her career on Australian television.

She moved to Australia at age six from Oman, Scotland.

Fisher rose to fame as a woman of television commercials from 1994 to 1997, winning two Logie Award nominations for her portrayal Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away. Fisher made a fruitful move to Hollywood in the live-action film version of Scooby-Doo (2004), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2008), and Now You See Me (2013).

I Heart Huckabees (2004), The Lookout (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008), Burke & Hare (2010), Keeping up with the Joneses (2010), and Tag (2018).

In addition, she has appeared in animated films such as Horton Hears a Who! Rango (2011), and Rise of the Guardians (2012).

On television, she appeared on Arrested Development's fourth and fifth seasons (2013, 2018). Fisher has published two young adult novels as well as the Marge in Charge book series.

Early life

Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, the daughter of Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher from Scotland. Her father was living in Oman as a banker for the United Nations. When she was six years old, Fisher and her family returned to Bathgate, Scotland, before transferring to Perth, Western Australia. She has four siblings and said she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy lifestyle," according to her. She has said that "sensibility is Australian," she has a "laid-back approach to life" and that she feels "very Australian." She describes herself as a feminist. Her mother and siblings live in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany. Fisher attended Swanbourne Primary School and Methodist Ladies' College in Perth. She appeared in lead roles in school plays, such as Little Shop of Horrors. She attended L'École Internationale de Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she studied clown, mime, musical theatre, and commedia dell'arte.

Personal life

Fisher first met English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen at a Sydney party in 2001. They became engaged in 2004 and were married in Paris, France, on March 15, 2010. They have three children, born in 2007, 2010, 2010 and 2015. The family used to live in the United States and London.

Fisher, who married Baron Cohen, converted to Judaism (her husband's faith), saying, "I will certainly have a Jewish wedding just to be with Sacha." I'd do anything—step into any faith—to be united in marriage with him. As far as we are concerned, we have a future together and faith comes second to love. She completed her conversion in early 2007, after three years of study. She adopted the Hebrew word for a female deer, Ayala (), and has described herself as keeping the Jewish Sabbath.

Fisher donated her signed shoes for the Small Steps Project Celebrity Shoe Auction in 2014 and 2015. Fisher and her husband Baron Cohen donated £335,000 (US$500,000) to Save the Children in Northern Syria as part of a campaign to immunize children against measles, as well as the International Rescue Committee, which is also aimed at Syrian refugees.

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Career

Fisher made her first on-screen appearances on Australian television at the age of 9, making her first on-screen appearance in 1993 with two guest-starring roles in the children's television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach. Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, her mother's help, was published in two teen books in Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, which was released at 18 years old. In a 2005 interview with Sunday Mirror, she said she would not have been a full-time writer if she had not been successful as an actress.

Fisher played Shannon Reed, a young, unconfident bisexual woman who experiences anorexia, on the Australian soap opera Home and Away between 1994 and 1997. In a 1996 interview with The Sun-Herald, she discussed her work and experiences on the show: "I would be foolish to let it go to my head because it will all end tomorrow and I'll fade back to obscurity." We're on the verge of learning lines in 15 hours a day. I know a lot of people work in those hours, but I think we really feel it because the majority of us are young and inexperienced [...] But I am grateful because it is such a rewarding experience. It's like an apprenticeship, but we do it in front of 20 million people, so all our mistakes are up for the world to see." Fisher was nominated for Most Popular New Talent at the 1995 Logie Awards and Most Popular Actress at the 1997 awards for her role in the series.

Fisher joined L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, a Paris theatre and arts training school, and went on to perform in pantomime in the United Kingdom after leaving the soap show. She appeared in Cos's London theatre performance and played an ill-fated member of an elite group of international students in the German slasher film Swimming Pool (2001).

Fisher moved to Hollywood in 2002, with the part of Shaggy Rogers' love interest in the live action film Scooby-Doo. Despite poor reviews, Scooby-Doo's film was a commercial success, grossing US$275.7 million worldwide. Fisher remarked, "I only came out on the back of [the film] at the premiere of Scooby Doo. And then, I became famous and ended up getting a job, but it wasn't right away. So, I was lucky in that I didn't have to come out to L.A. and stand in a line of however many people before attempting to find jobs and begin to work. I came in on the back of what was deemed as a big studio film that had achieved such success. She appeared in the independent film Dallas 362 (2004) and the Australian comedy The Wannabes (both 2003). In his review of Fisher "adds quick charm and a thinly developed hint of romantic interest," he described as a "evening but endearing farce about breaking into showbiz." "She Loves It" by David O. Russell, she appeared in the comedy I Heart Huckabees (2004), directed by David O. Russell, in what was described as a "punchy little part" by newspaper The Age.

Fisher's breakthrough came with the comedy Wedding Crashers (2004), opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, portraying the young daughter of a politician who fell in love with an irresponsible wedding crasher. "It was an exciting character to play because she was so mishonest and lacking in any sort of social etiquette," she recalled on her role in the film. She doesn't care what anyone thinks. She used a body double for one particular scene involving sexual content. "I started negotiating from the beginning and wanted to figure out why." "I find pornographic violence to be more gratuitous and unnecessary than nudity" because there is nothing more peaceful and beautiful than nudity. Critics loved the film and reported that it earned US$285.1 million worldwide. Fisher's appearance earned her the Breakthrough Achievement Award at the MTV Movie Awards and two Teen Choice Awards, according to Empire magazine, who found her to be a "unexpected, scene-stealing delight."

In the independent drama London (2005), Fisher appeared opposite Jessica Biel, Chris Evans, and Jason Statham. She appeared in Wedding Daze (2006), starring Jason Biggs, as a dissatisfied waitress who unexpectedly becomes engaged to a grieving young man. Though Wedding Daze debuted in second place on its first weekend in the United Kingdom, critics gave it poor marks. Nonetheless, Reel Film Reviews found the film to be a "irreverent, sporadically funny romantic comedy" with stellar performances from actors Jason Biggs and Isla Fisher. Fisher, alongside Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, played a woman used by a gang leader to seduce a man with permanent mental impairments in the thriller The Lookout (2006). "I]t was one of those situations where I read the script and thought, 'This is the take,'" she said. I don't want to be a cliché femme fatale. I don't want to come in and be the woman with the sexual appetite who is determined to depose this guy. I want to come in and make her this huge beating heart and innocent — a woman with no name and who has no idea who she is with who has no intention to please that has no agenda.' Because every character in the script has an agenda. I thought it'd be interesting if [my character] doesn't have one if she's a victim of her own kindness. So, that was my starting point. Although The Lookout was limited, the film was well received. Also 2007, the comedy Hot Rod starring Andy Samberg featured Fisher as the college-graduate neighbor on whom an amateur stuntman has a crush.

In the romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe (2008) with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, and Abigail Breslin, Fisher played a copy girl who becomes romantically linked with an ambitious political consultant. Reviewers rated the film as a "refreshing entry into the romantic comedy genre," and The New Yorker wrote that "interest lies" in the female characters: "Isla Fisher, short, is a versatile free spirit who maintains [the male lead] [and maybe herself] off balance." Possibly, Perhaps was a commercial success, grossing US$55.4 million globally, with a budget at US$7 million. In the computer-animated comedy Horton Hears a Who!, Fisher also voiced a professor in a town of microscopic creatures. Among other things, Jim Carney, Steve Carell, Will Arnett, and others appeared in this (2008) film.

Fisher played Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), where she appeared as a college graduate and worked as a financial journalist in New York City to help with her shopping addiction. As she took on her first film role, she felt "apprehensive" that she would be driving me. I am always befuddled. Every time I see [producer] Jerry Bruckheimer, I want to shake him and say: 'Are you mad?' Why have you stuck me on a poster?'" Following its debut, the film received skepticism from critics; Time Out described it as "silly and adorable"; "Isla Fisher is such a jolly ball of comic energy that she spins her wheels in the Shopaholic Confessions of a Shopaholic counts as cruel and unusual punishment for her as well as us." Despite the critical reaction, the film was a commercial success; it opened with US$15 million on its first weekend in North America and then rose to $108.3 million worldwide. Fisher received her third Teen Choice Award nomination.

Fisher starred in the British black comedy Burke and Hare (2010), loosely based on Burke and Hare murders, as both a young former prostitute and the love interest of one of the titular characters. The film attracted a small audience in theatres, and Variety said that "Pegg and Fisher, just about holding up their end of the bargain by delivering the film's portion of sweet romance, were hardly given anything amusing to say" as part of a mixed reception. In the 3D animated Western action comedy Rango (2011), starring Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin, and Bill Nighy, Fisher portrayed a hot-tempered yet compassionate desert chameleon. The film received rave reviews and earned US$245.7 million worldwide. Fisher received the Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Animated Female for her work.

Fisher appeared in the comedy Bachelorette (2012), opposite Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan, and Rebel Wilson, portraying a ditzy party girl and one-third of a group of troubled women who reunite for the wedding of a friend who was mocked in high school. Fisher was described as "brilliantly slowed as a swollen mess whose main aim is to get coked out of her skull," the Daily Telegraph reported in its review of the film. The Bachelorette, which cost the US$11.9 million in theaters worldwide and more than $8 million on VOD, was a commercial success; it grossed US$11.9 million in theaters worldwide and more than $8 million on VOD. Fisher portrayed Tooth Fairy in the film Rise of the Guardians (also 2012), earning her an Alliance of Women Film Journalist Award nomination for Best Animated Female in another voice-over role.

Fisher gained mainstream attention in 2013, appearing in two critically acclaimed films — The Great Gatsby and Now You See Me. The Great Gatsby, an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, starring Baz Luhrmann and opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, and Tobey Maguire, saw her portraying an ambitious social climber and the mistress of an upper-class socialite. Fisher described the experience with Luhrmann as "surprising." "He's my dream director." I had only ever had a short list of people I've wanted to work with, and he was at the top of the list. I couldn't avoid smiling the entire time." Although reviewers described her role as brief, the film earned US$353.6 million worldwide. Fisher received nominations for the Best Supporting Actress award from the AACTA Awards, the Australian Film Critics Association, and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. In Jesse Eisenberg's heist thriller Now You See Me, Fisher, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent, and Morgan Freeman, Fisher played a larger part as an escapist and stage magician. Fisher's portrayal was "loaded with chutzpah," the Hollywood Reporter said, and IndieWire wrote about it: "While Fisher and Laurent's charm, they don't quite flesh out underwritten scenes." Whether you like The Great Gatsby or Not, Now You See Me Grossing More Than US$350 million worldwide.

Fisher earned the nine-episode role as an actor in Netflix's fourth season of Arrested Development, as the mistress of a wealthy man who refuses to pay the ransom for his kidnapped wife. Critical appraisals were limited for the film's limited theatrical release and glowing reviews. Fisher, as well as the cast of Arrested Development, received a Screen Actor Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series, and she characterized her career as a career highlight, but it was exciting..."

Fisher starred in Visions (2015), an independent horror film, as a pregnant woman with supernatural appearances after moving to a vineyard with her husband. Visions was released in North America for a limited number of countries, and Spanish newspaper Reforma wrote about it: "Even if good and boring, even Isla Fisher, who is usually a good performer, gives a very boring performance." Fisher appeared in two action comedy films —Grimsby and Keeping Up with the Joneses — in 2016. She appeared in Keeping Up with the Joneses as one half of a suburban couple who start to suspect their new neighbors are mystery agents for the first time with husband Sacha Baron Cohen in the British film Grimsby, playing the handler of the top MI6 agent. Both films were budgeted more than US$35 million, but only made less than US$30 million at the box office.

Fisher, based on Austin Wright's book Tony and Susan, was the blighted wife of a motorist in Nocturnal Animals, a Tom Ford neo-noir thriller that was published by a recently divorced man. The film was the winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and was an arthouse hit. Marge in Charge, her third book and first children's book, revolving around a mischievous babysitter with rainbow hair who likes to bend the rules, was published in 2016. The book received a warm reception; publishers Weekly noted that "spontaneity and mayhem" were woven into the job, while The Daily Express found "the comical tale of [the] anarchic babysitter" to be "ideal for reading aloud." Fisher subsequently wrote three sequels: Marge and the Pirate Baby in 2017, Marge and the Great Train Rescue in 2017, Marge and the Great Train Rescue, 2017-2017, and Marge and the Stolen Treasure in 2018. She appeared in an episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm's tenth season in 2019. Fisher appeared in the Walt Disney Pictures film Godmothered, which was released on Disney+ on December 4th of that year.

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