From playing a fashion-savvy journalist in Confessions of a Shopaholic to an ambitious magician in Now You See Me, Isla Fisher has become a name known across the world.
But before she made it big as a successful Hollywood star, the actress started her famed career right here on Australian soil.
Here’s everything you need to know about Isla Fisher’s early Aussie fame, how she broke onto the Hollywood scene, and what she’s up to in 2024.
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How did Isla Fisher get into acting?
After moving to Australia aged six, Fisher was nine when she landed her first on-screen gig in a TV commercial.
After working in commercials, the actress transitioned to television in her teens.
What was Isla Fisher’s first role?
Starting out in the Australian entertainment industry, Fisher was 17 when she landed a small role in the series Bay City.
Fisher revealed in an interview with The Age that she had tutors on set during the show.
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Not long after that, she had a three-episode part in the Nine Network series Paradise Beach in 1993.
But her big break on Aussie TV came a year later in 1994 when she debuted on the long-running soap series Home and Away as Shannon Reed.
Fisher was 18 when she started out on the show, and it was a role she would keep until 1997.
What was Isla Fisher’s big break
Fisher’s breakout role overseas would come a few years after she landed a small role as Mary Jane in the 2002 American film Scooby-Doo.
In 2005, Fisher broke onto the Hollywood scene in the comedy Wedding Crashers.
The actress played Gloria, starring alongside major stars Vince Vaughn, Owen Wilson and Rachel McAdams.
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Speaking to The Age, Fisher revealed she requested to be switched out during a scene with Vaughn in which her character is naked.
“There was a moment when it did occur to me that there are probably a million actresses who are more than willing to do the role and to be nude for it,” she said.
“But I think you have to stand by what you believe in and it was important to me, so I asked for it.”
Speaking to E! News in 2024 about a potential sequel to her breakout film, Fisher admitted “there have been conversations where we were pretty close.”
“She’s such a fun character. It’s also so rare, as a woman, to be in a comedy where you get to make jokes and not just be the straight man.”
What other movies and TV shows has she been in?
After her breakout role in Wedding Crashers, Fisher started to become a regular face in Hollywood.
A year later she starred in Wedding Daze opposite Jason Biggs, followed by roles in Hot Rod and Definitely, Maybe alongside Rachel Weisz and Ryan Reynolds.
In 2009, Fisher would land one of the biggest roles of her career: Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Fisher played the titular shopaholic and aspiring fashion journalist Rebecca Bloomwood in the romantic comedy, in which Hugh Dancy was her love interest.
In the 2010s, the actress starred in Now You See Me, The Great Gatsby, Keeping Up with the Joneses and Bachelorette.
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In 2021, she appeared in the animated film Back to the Outback, speaking to 9Honey Celebrity about how she felt voicing a snake in the movie.
“I was very excited. I’ve always wanted to play a creature and never thought I’d be cast as a snake,” she said.
What is Isla Fisher doing now?
Fisher is still acting as of 2024, more recently starring in the Stan series Wolf Like Me since 2022 and the 2023 comedy film Strays.
Additionally to acting, Fisher has authored several children’s books over the years as part of her Marge in Charge series.
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In 2022, she released her latest book Mazy the Movie Star.
In her personal life, the 48-year-old is a mum to three children: daughters, Olive, 16, and Elula, 13, and son Montgomery, eight, who she shares with ex Sacha Baron Cohen.
Isla Fisher’s net worth
According to Celebrity Net Worth, after her split from husband Sacha Baron Cohen, Fisher has an estimated standalone net worth of $US80 million (approx. $122.7 million).
Isla Fisher’s relationships
Fisher recently announced her split from husband Sacha Baron Cohen in April 2024 after more than 20 years together.
“After a long tennis match lasting over twenty years, we are finally putting our racquets down,” the joint statement read.
They explained they had “jointly filed to end our marriage” in 2023.
The pair first met at a Sydney party in 2002. They tied the knot in 2010 and now share three children together.
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