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Isla Fisher: Snapshot

Name: Isla Fisher
Date of Birth: February 03, 1976
Birth Place: Muscat, Oman

Though Isla Fisher gained fame as a teen with roles on Australian soaps Paradise Beach and Home and Away, it was the 2005 smash hit Wedding Crashers that catapulted the redhead to fame. Fisher went on to cement her funny lady status in Hollywood by following up with Definitely, Maybe and Confessions of a Shopaholic.

While the actress will do (almost) anything for a laugh, Fisher is serious about keeping her personal life off-limits. Married to the equally private Sacha Baron Cohen, the actress rarely talks about her family life with the British comedian, with whom she has two daughters.

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Isla Fisher: Five Fun Facts

Isla Fisher once dyed her trademark red locks blonde – but not for long. "It backfired," she told PEOPLE. "I had nothing to blame my temper on!"
Isla Fisher accidentally revealed her backside at the 2007 Golden Globes, after someone stepped on the train of her dress. "They ran the story in London, calling me Isla Flasher," she told Cosmopolitan.
When she auditioned for 2009's Confessions of a Shopaholic, Isla Fisher was six months pregnant with her daughter Olive. "[I] had already gained about 50 pounds," she told Entertainment Weekly. "I waddled into the meeting."
As a teenager, Isla Fisher penned two young-adult novels, Seduced by Fame and Bewitched, about talented teenage girls struggling to find fame.
Isla Fisher studied clowning and mime at the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre in Paris.

Isla Fisher: Biography

1976: February 03
Lucky Break
Isla Fisher is born to Scottish parents – a banker father and novelist mother – in the Middle Eastern country of Oman. Soon after, the family settles in Perth, Australia, where Fisher lands her first job – a lottery commercial – at age 12. "When you watch it I'm so small, I'm just a blur," she tells EW. "But I was so excited."
1994: A Soapy Start
Fisher's television career really takes off with a lead role on Home and Away, a long-running Australian soap opera which once featured Naomi Watts and Heath Ledger. "That show was like an apprenticeship," Fisher tells Elle. "Some of the lines were so laughable, you'd really have to work harder than you ever will again to make them even seem realistic."
1997: Romantic Comedy
At 21, Fisher moves to Europe, making a stop in Paris to study at the Jacques Lecoq International School of Theatre, before crossing paths with comedic actor Sacha Baron Cohen in London. Together, the couple moves to Los Angeles in 2002. "I was auditioning and getting many less than enthusiastic responses," she tells Elle. "Then Sacha said, 'You're the funniest girl I know. You should be doing comedies.' And I thought, Wow, that's inspiring coming from the funniest man in the world."