1. Isla Fisher had a recurring role on the fourth and fifth seasons of the sitcom Arrested Development and has starred in the comedy drama series Wolf Like Me since 2022.
33 Facts About Isla Fisher
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Isla Fisher has authored two young adult novels and the Marge in Charge book series.
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Isla Lang Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, on 3 February 1976, the daughter of Scottish parents Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher.
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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 in 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, 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 Best Breakthrough Performance Award at the 2006 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 found mainstream recognition in 2013, with roles in two highly successful films The Great Gatsby and Now You See Me.
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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: "While 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 neighbours 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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In 2014 and 2015, Isla Fisher donated her signed shoes for the Small Steps Project Celebrity Shoe Auction.
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In 2001, Isla Fisher met English comedian and actor Sacha Baron Cohen at a party in Sydney.
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Isla Fisher converted to Cohen's Judaism in order to marry him.
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Isla Fisher took the Hebrew name Ayala, the Hebrew word for a doe, and has described herself as keeping the Jewish Sabbath.
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Baron Cohen and Isla Fisher have three children, born in 2007,2010 and 2015.
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On 5 April 2024, Isla Fisher announced that she and Baron Cohen had made the decision to end their 13-year marriage, separating at the end of 2023.