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Isla Lang Fisher is an actress born 3 February 1976 who began her acting career on Australian television. She was born to Scottish parents in Oman and raised in Australia. She appeared on the children's adventure series Bay Cove, and the short-lived soap opera Paradise Beach, before playing Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away. She has since been known for her comedic roles in Scooby-Doo (2002), I Heart Huckabees (2004), Wedding Crashers (2005),[2] Hot Rod (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Rango (2011), Bachelorette (2012), and the fourth season of Arrested Development (2013). In 2013, Fisher starred as Myrtle Wilson in The Great Gatsby and as Henley Reeves in Now You See Me.

Early life

Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, the daughter of Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher.[3] Her parents are Scottish and, at the time of her birth, resided in Oman because her father worked as a banker for the United Nations.[4] While she was still in her early years, they moved to Bathgate, Scotland, and when she was six years old, moved once again to Perth, Australia, where she was brought up.[5] She has four brothers, and says that she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy life".[2] She attended Methodist Ladies' College and also Walliston Primary School. She also appeared in lead roles in school productions, such as Little Shop of Horrors.

Career

She began appearing in commercials on Australian television at the age of nine, before going on to win roles in popular children's television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach. At the age of 18, with the help of her mother, she published two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame,[6] an in a 2005 interview, Fisher admitted that had she not been successful as an actress she would probably have been a full-time writer.[7] From 1994 to 1997 she played the role of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away. In 1996, she received a Logie Award nomination for Most Popular Actress for her role. After leaving the soap, Fisher enrolled at L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, a theatre and arts training school in Paris, and went on to appear in pantomime in the United Kingdom. She also toured with Darren Day in the musical Summer Holiday and appeared in the London theatre production Così. In 2001, Fisher was cast as Kim in the German horror film Swimming Pool.

In 2002 she had a part in the film version of Scooby-Doo as Mary Jane, Shaggy's love interest who is allergic to dogs. She wore a blonde wig for portraying her role because Sarah Michelle Gellar was supposed to be the only redhead in the film. The following year, she portrayed the character Kristy in the Australian comedy The Wannabes. Subsequently, Fisher was taken on by an American agent.[2] A larger role in Wedding Crashers (2005), alongside Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, won her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the MTV Movie Awards. While promoting Wedding Crashers, she was officially crowned the 1000th guest on Australian talk show Rove on 2 August 2005. She entered the set ahead of Owen Wilson, winning the title by two metres.

In 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host, in the relationship drama London co-starring Jessica Biel, Chris Evans, and Jason Statham. She played the role of Katie in the romantic comedy Wedding Daze with Jason Biggs. In 2007, she appeared in The Lookout, a thriller film co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, and Hot Rod, opposite Andy Samberg. She was scheduled to appear in The Simpsons Movie, although her appearance was cut from the final version.[8] In 2008, she starred in the critically acclaimed romantic comedy film Definitely, Maybe, with Ryan Reynolds, Elizabeth Banks, Rachel Weisz, and Abigail Breslin,[2] and had a voice role in Horton Hears a Who![9] Fisher has also co-written a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen.[2] She starred in the movie adaptation of the book Confessions of a Shopaholic, which opened on 13 February 2009.[10] In the film, Fisher played a college graduate who works as a financial journalist in New York City to support her shopping addiction. Confessions of a Shopaholic suffered critically but eventually opened at No.4 grossing $15,054,000 on its opening weekend. Fisher received her third Teen Choice Award nomination.

Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for comediennes in Hollywood.[11] In 2010, she starred in the black comedy Burke and Hare.[12] Fisher then voiced the role of Beans in Rango, a computer-animated Western film released in March 2011. In the movie, Johnny Depp and her Definitely, Maybe co-star Abigail Breslin also provide voice-over roles.

In another voice-over role, Fisher voiced the character of Tooth (the Tooth Fairy) in the animated film Rise of the Guardians, which was released in 2012. She also plays a part in several episodes of the fourth season of Arrested Development, released in 2013.

Personal life

Fisher first met English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen in 2002 at a party in Sydney, Australia.[13] The couple became engaged in 2004, and wed on 15 March 2010, in Paris, France.[14][15] The couple have two daughters: Olive (born October 17, 2007)[16][17] and Elula Lottie Miriam (born August 2010).

Before marrying, Fisher converted to Judaism, saying, "I will definitely have a Jewish wedding just to be with Sacha. I would do anything — move into any religion — to be united in marriage with him. We have a future together, and religion comes second to love as far as we are concerned."[19] She completed her conversion in early 2007, after three years of study.[20] She took the Hebrew name Ayala (איילה), the Hebrew word for doe, and has described herself as keeping Shabbat.

Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian" and that she has a "laid-back attitude to life" that she feels is "very Australian."[24] Her mother and siblings live in Athens, Greece, while her father divides his time between Frankfurt, Germany, and Nicaragua.

Filmography

Film

Year Title Role Notes

1997 Bum Magnet Emma Short film

1998 Furnished Room Jennie Short film

2000 Out of Depth Australian Girl #1

2001 The Pool Kim

2002 Dog Days Bianca

2002 Scooby-Doo Mary Jane

2003 The Wannabes Kirsty

2003 Dallas 362 Redhead

2004 I Heart Huckabees Heather