Fisher was born 3 February 1976 in
Muscat,
Oman to
Scottish parents who resided there because of her father's job as a banker for the
United Nations.
[2] Her name, after the Scottish island of
Islay, is pronounced eye-la;
[3] she has four brothers.
[4] Fisher moved with her family to
Perth,
Western Australia, when she was nine months old.
[1] Fisher has said that she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy life".
[1] 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. She attended
Methodist Ladies' College and appeared in lead roles in school productions.
At the age of eighteen, with the help of her mother, she wrote two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, that became
bestsellers.
[1] From 1994 to 1997 she played the role of Shannon Reed on the hit Australian soap opera Home and Away. After leaving the popular soap to pursue new challenges, Fisher enrolled at a prestigious 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 Summer Holiday musical, and appeared in a
London theatre production called
Così. Fisher's ambition was always to progress onto the big screen however, and in 2002 she had a part in the film version of
Scooby-Doo as Mary-Jane,
Shaggy Rogers's love interest, and subsequently was taken on by an
American agent.
[1] A larger role in
Wedding Crashers, alongside
Vince Vaughn and
Owen Wilson, in 2005 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 meters.
I
n 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a
Manhattan party host in the offbeat relationship drama
London co-starring
Jessica Biel,
Chris Evans and
Jason Statham. In 2007, she appeared in
The Lookout, a thriller 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.
[5] In 2008, she starred in
Wedding Daze with
Jason Biggs,
Definitely, Maybe, with
Ryan Reynolds,
Elizabeth Banks, and
Abigail Breslin,
[1] and had a voice role in
Horton Hears a Who![6] Fisher has also co-written a script entitled Groupies with
Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen.
[1] She will star in the movie adaption of the book
Confessions of a Shopaholic, filming of which started in January 2008 for a February 13, 2009 release date.
[7]Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for comediennes in Hollywood.
[8]Fisher lives with her
fiancé,
English comedian
Sacha Baron Cohen, in
Los Angeles, California as well as in
London.
[1] She met Baron Cohen at a party in Sydney, Australia. Fisher
converted to
Judaism after three years of study, completing her conversion in early 2007 and taking on the
Hebrew name Ayala (איילה), the Hebrew word for
Doe.
[9][10][11] As of March 2007, the couple have not set a date for their wedding.
[12] On October 19, 2007, Fisher gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Olive, in
Los Angeles.
[13]Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian" and that she has a "laid-back attitude to life" that she feels "very Australian."
[3] Her mother and siblings live and work in
Athens,
Greece, while her father lives in
Frankfurt,
Germany.
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