Isla Fisher

Isla Lang Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents. She moved to Perth, Western Australia, when she was 6 years old. She made her professional acting debut in 1993. She played the role of Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away from 1994 to 1997. Fisher has since achieved fame for her roles in Wedding Crashers, Hot Rod, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Great Gatsby and Now You See Me. She is married to Australian actor Peter Cushing and has four children.

About Isla Fisher in brief

Summary Isla FisherIsla Lang Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents. She moved to Perth, Western Australia, when she was 6 years old. Fisher made her professional acting debut in 1993. She played the role of Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away from 1994 to 1997. Fisher has since achieved fame for her roles in Wedding Crashers, Hot Rod, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Great Gatsby and Now You See Me. She has also authored two young adult novels and the Marge in Charge book series. She made a successful transition to Hollywood in the live-action film adaptation of Scooby-Doo in 2002, with the part of the love interest of a cowardly slaggy slacker. Fisher is a member of a group of elite students from L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she studied clown, mime, musical theatre and commedia dell’arte. She also toured with Darren Aronofsky in the musical Summer Day in the UK and appeared in the London production of Così in the Summer. She is married to Australian actor Peter Cushing and has four children. She lives in Athens, Greece, with her mother and siblings. Her father divides his time between Frankfurt, Germany and Nicaragua. She considers herself a feminist and has said that she had a \”great\” upbringing in Perth with a \”very outdoorsy life. \” Fisher has stated that her \”sensibility is Australian,\” she has a \”laid-back attitude to life,\” and she feels very Australian.

She has voiced characters in animated films such as Horton Hears a Who!, Rango, andRise of the Guardians. On television, she was cast in a recurring role on the fourth and fifth seasons of Arrested Development. Fisher has written two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame; in a 2005 interview with Sunday Mirror, Fisher admitted that had she not been successful as an actress she would probably have been a full-time writer. She was nominated for Most Popular New Talent at the 1995 Logie Awards, and for most Popular Actress at the 1997 ceremony. Fisher came out on the back of the stage in the stage premiere of the film Swimming Pool, which was a commercial success, grossing 7.275 million worldwide. In a 1996 interview with The Sun-Herald, Fisher spoke of her success and experiences on the show. She said: ‘I like working on Home and away but it’s a heavy workload so I get stressed out a lot, We work about 15 hours a day, including the time it takes to learn lines. But I am very grateful because it is good 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.’ She has said: ‘It could all end tomorrow and I would just fade back into obscurity.\’