Isla Fisher

Isla Lang Fisher (born February 3, 1976) is an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian Television, and is best known for her role of Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away and for her role in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.

Early life

Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman to Scottish parents who resided there because of her father's job as a banker for the United Nations. Her name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-luh; she has two brothers. Fisher moved with her family to Perth, Western Australia, when she was nine months old. Fisher has also co-written a treatment for a script entitled Groupies with Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen. As of March 2007, the couple have not set a date for their wedding.
Fisher has said that her "sensibility is Australian" and that she has a "laid-back attitude to life" that she feels is "very Australian". Her mother and siblings live and work in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany.
On 19 October, 2007, Fisher gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Olive, in Los Angeles.