Īfter 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. 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." For her performance in the series, Fisher received nominations for Most Popular New Talent at the 1995 Logie Awards, and for Most Popular Actress at the 1997 ceremony. I know a lot of people work those sort of hours but I think we really feel it because most of us are young and fairly inexperienced But I am very grateful because it is good experience. We work about 15 hours a day, including the time it takes to learn lines. In a 1996 interview with The Sun-Herald, she spoke of her success and experiences on the show: "I would be stupid to let it go to my head because it could all end tomorrow and I would just fade back into obscurity I like working on Home and Away but it's a heavy workload so I get stressed out a lot. īetween 19, Fisher played Shannon Reed, a young, unconfident bisexual woman who develops anorexia, on the Australian soap opera Home and Away. In a 2005 interview with Sunday Mirror, she said that had she not been successful as an actress, she would probably have been a full-time writer. At 18, with her mother's help, she published two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame. Career 1985–2001: Early acting credits įisher 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. At 21, she attended L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she studied clown, mime, musical theatre and commedia dell'arte. She appeared in lead roles in school productions such as Little Shop of Horrors. Fisher attended Swanbourne Primary School and Methodist Ladies' College, Perth. Her mother and siblings live in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany. She has four brothers, and said that she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy life." She has stated that her " sensibility is Australian," she has a "laid-back attitude to life," and that she feels "very Australian." She considers herself a feminist. Fisher and her family returned to their hometown of Bathgate, Scotland then moved to Perth, Western Australia, when she was six. Her father was working as a banker in Oman for the United Nations. On television, she had a recurring role on the fourth and fifth seasons of Arrested Development (2013, 2018).įisher has authored two young adult novels and the Marge in Charge book series.įisher was born in Muscat, Oman, the daughter of Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher from Scotland. She has also voiced characters in animated films such as Horton Hears a Who! (2008), Rango (2011), and Her other notable film credits include I Heart Huckabees (2004), The Lookout (2007), Definitely, Maybe (2008), Burke & Hare (2010), Bachelorette (2012), Visions (2015), Grimsby, Nocturnal Animals, Keeping Up with the Joneses (all 2016), and Tag (2018). She made a successful transition to Hollywood in the live-action film adaptation of Scooby-Doo (2002), and has since appeared in Wedding Crashers (2005), Hot Rod (2007), Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), The Great Gatsby (2013), and Now You See Me (2013). After appearing in television commercials at a young age, she came to prominence for her portrayal of Shannon Reed on the soap opera Home and Away from 1994 to 1997, for which she received two Logie Award nominations. Born to Scottish parents in Oman, she moved to Australia at age six. She began her career on Australian television. Isla Lang Fisher ( / ˈ aɪ l ə/ born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress and author.
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