

At the age of eighteen, with the help of her mother, she wrote two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, that became bestsellers.[1] From 1994 to 1997 she played the role of Shannon Reed on the hit Australian soap opera Home and Away. After leaving the popular soap to pursue new challenges, Fisher enrolled at a prestigious theatre and arts training school in Paris, and went on to appear in Pantomime in the United Kingdom. She also toured with
Darren Day in the Summer Holiday musical, and appeared in a London theatre production called Così. Fisher's ambition was always to progress onto the big screen however, and in 2002 she had a part in the film version of
Scooby-Doo as Mary-Jane, Shaggy Rogers's love interest, and subsequently was taken on by an American agent.[1] A larger role in
Wedding Crashers, alongside
Vince Vaughn and
Owen Wilson, in 2005 won her the Breakthrough Performance Award at the MTV Movie Awards. While promoting Wedding Crashers, she was officially crowned the 1000th guest on Australian talk show Rove on 2 August 2005. She entered the set ahead of Owen Wilson, winning the title by two meters.





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n 2006, Fisher starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host in the offbeat relationship drama London co-starring
Jessica Biel,
Chris Evans and
Jason Statham. In 2007, she appeared in The Lookout, a thriller co-starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Matthew Goode, and
Hot Rod, opposite
Andy Samberg. She was scheduled to appear in
The Simpsons Movie, although her appearance was cut from the final version.[5] In 2008, she starred in
Wedding Daze with
Jason Biggs,
Definitely, Maybe, with
Ryan Reynolds,
Elizabeth Banks, and
Abigail Breslin,[1] and had a voice role in
Horton Hears a Who![6] Fisher has also co-written a script entitled Groupies with
Amy Poehler, as well as another project entitled The Cookie Queen.[1] She will star in the movie adaption of the book
Confessions of a Shopaholic, filming of which started in January 2008 for a February 13, 2009 release date.[7]
Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for comediennes in Hollywood.[8]
Fisher lives with her fiancé, English comedian
Sacha Baron Cohen, in Los Angeles, California as well as in London.[1] She met Baron 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] As of March 2007, the couple have not set a date for their wedding.[12]
On October 19, 2007, Fisher gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Olive, in Los Angeles.[13]
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]
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Fisher has spoken out against the lack of opportunities for comediennes in Hollywood.[8]
Fisher lives with her fiancé, English comedian


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]
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