Isla Lang Fisher (born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian Television, playing Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away, and has since become known for her roles in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers, opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, 2007’s Hot Rod. and 2009’s Confessions of a Shopaholic.

Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman to Scottish parents from Bathgate and Stranraer. They resided in Muscat because of her father’s job as a banker for the United Nations. Her name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-la;[3] she has four brothers.[4] Fisher spent her infancy in Bathgate before moving 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”. 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.

Fisher lives with her fiancé, English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen, in London.[1] She met 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] she has described herself as “quite observant”.[12] As of April 2009, the couple have not set a date for their wedding.[13] On October 19, 2007, Fisher gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Olive, in Los Angeles.[14]

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.[3]