32 Facts About Isla Fisher

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Isla Lang Fisher is an Australian actress and author.

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Outside film, Isla Fisher played a recurring role on the fourth and fifth seasons of Arrested Development, and currently stars as Mary on Wolf Like Me.

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Isla Fisher has authored two young adult novels and the Marge in Charge book series.

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Isla Fisher is married to Sacha Baron Cohen, with whom she has three children.

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Isla Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, on 3 February 1976, she is the daughter of Elspeth Reid and Brian Isla Fisher from Scotland.

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Isla Fisher's father was working as a banker in Oman for the United Nations.

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Isla Fisher has four brothers, and said that she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy life".

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Isla Fisher attended Swanbourne Primary School and Methodist Ladies' College, Perth.

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Isla Fisher appeared in lead roles in school productions such as Little Shop of Horrors.

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Isla Fisher made her first on-screen appearances in commercials on Australian television at the age of 9, and made her professional acting debut in 1993 with two guest-starring roles in the children's television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach.

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Between 1994 and 1997, Isla Fisher played Shannon Reed, a young, unconfident bisexual woman who develops anorexia, on the Australian soap opera Home and Away.

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Isla Fisher toured with Darren Day in the musical Summer Holiday; appeared in the London theatre production of Cosi, and played an ill-fated member of an elite group of international students in the German slasher film Swimming Pool.

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Isla Fisher transitioned to Hollywood in 2002, with the part of the love interest of a cowardly slacker Shaggy Rogers in the live-action film Scooby-Doo.

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Isla Fisher subsequently played supporting roles in the independent film Dallas 362 and the Australian comedy The Wannabes.

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Empire magazine found Isla Fisher to be an "unexpected, scene-stealing joy", and her performance earned her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the MTV Movie Awards and two Teen Choice Awards nominations.

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Isla Fisher appeared as a Manhattan party host in the independent drama London, opposite Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham.

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Isla Fisher next starred in the romantic comedy Wedding Daze, with Jason Biggs, playing a dissatisfied waitress who spontaneously gets engaged to a grieving young man.

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Isla Fisher obtained her first leading film role in the comedy Confessions of a Shopaholic, where she played a college graduate who works as a financial journalist in New York City to support her shopping addiction.

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Isla Fisher voiced a hot-tempered but good-hearted desert iguana befriending an eccentric chameleon in the 3D animated Western action comedy Rango, featuring Johnny Depp, Abigail Breslin and Bill Nighy.

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Isla Fisher starred in the comedy Bachelorette, opposite Kirsten Dunst, Lizzy Caplan and Rebel Wilson, portraying a ditzy party girl and one-third of a trio of troubled women who reunite for the wedding of a friend who was ridiculed in high school.

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Isla Fisher described as "surreal" the experience to work for Luhrmann.

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Isla Fisher garnered nominations for the Best Supporting Actress award from the AACTA Awards, the Australian Film Critics Association and the Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards.

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Isla Fisher took on a larger role as an escapist and stage magician in the heist thriller Now You See Me, with Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Woody Harrelson, Melanie Laurent and Morgan Freeman.

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The Hollywood Reporter felt that Isla Fisher's portrayal was "loaded with chutzpah", and IndieWire remarked in its review for the film: "[W]hile Isla Fisher and Laurent bring their charm, they still don't quite flesh out underwritten parts".

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Also in 2013, Isla Fisher obtained the nine-episode role of an actress in the fourth season of Arrested Development, which was released on Netflix, and appeared opposite Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins, and Will Forte in Life of Crime, a film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's 1978 novel The Switch, as the mistress of a wealthy man who refuses to pay the ransom for his kidnapped wife.

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In Visions, an independent horror film, Isla Fisher starred as a pregnant woman who begins to experience supernatural manifestations after moving to a vineyard with her husband.

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Isla Fisher collaborated for the first time with husband Sacha Baron Cohen in the British film Grimsby, playing the handler of the best MI6 agent, and in Keeping Up with the Joneses, she starred as one half of a suburban couple who begin to suspect their new neighbors are secret agents.

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Isla Fisher subsequently authored three follow-ups: Marge and the Pirate Baby, in 2017, Marge and the Great Train Rescue, in 2017, and Marge in Charge and the Stolen Treasure, in 2018.

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In 2020, Isla Fisher starred in the Walt Disney Pictures film Godmothered, which was released on Disney+ on 4 December of that year.

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Isla Fisher first met English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen in 2001 at a party in Sydney.

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Isla Fisher took the Hebrew name Ayala, the Hebrew word for a female deer, and has described herself as keeping the Jewish Sabbath.

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In 2014 and 2015, Isla Fisher donated her signed shoes for Small Steps Project Celebrity Shoe Auction.