Isla Fisher Age & Biography

Isla Fisher is 50 years old. Born Isla Lang Fisher on February 3, 1976, in Muscat, Oman, she is an Australian actress whose career has taken her from the Australian soap Home and Away to Hollywood comedies and blockbusters. She is best known for her breakout role in Wedding Crashers, her leading turn in Confessions of a Shopaholic and her roles in The Great Gatsby and Now You See Me.

Fisher’s career has spanned more than four decades, beginning with television commercials as a child and taking in stage, film, voice work and writing. She has also published children’s books and, in 2015, made a substantial donation to charities supporting Syrian children.

Quick Facts

Full Name	Isla Lang Fisher
Born	February 3, 1976
Age	50 years old
Birthplace	Muscat, Oman
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Actress
Years Active	1985–present
Spouse	Sacha Baron Cohen (m. 2010; div. 2025)
Children	3
Known For	Home and Away, Wedding Crashers, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Great Gatsby, Now You See Me

Who Is Isla Fisher?

Isla Fisher is an Australian actress known for her comic timing and her red-haired, high-energy screen presence. She first became a household name in Australia as Shannon Reed on the long-running soap Home and Away, then broke into Hollywood with a scene-stealing turn in Wedding Crashers in 2005.

Since then she has moved between comedies, dramas, animation voice work and television, with roles in The Great Gatsby, Now You See Me, Arrested Development and Wolf Like Me. She is also a published author, having written two teen novels as a teenager and the Marge in Charge children’s book series.

Early Life & Background

Isla Lang Fisher was born on February 3, 1976, in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher, who worked as a banker for the United Nations. She spent her early childhood in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, before the family immigrated to Australia when she was six, settling in Perth, Western Australia, where she grew up with four brothers.

Fisher attended Swanbourne Primary School and Methodist Ladies’ College in Perth. She began appearing in Australian television commercials at the age of nine, and at 18 she published two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, written with her mother. At 21 she moved to Paris to study at L’École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq, training in clowning, mime, musical theatre and commedia dell’arte.

Career

Fisher’s first screen roles came in the Australian television series Bay City and Paradise Beach in 1993. The following year she joined Home and Away as Shannon Reed, a role she played for three years and 345 episodes, earning Logie Award nominations for Most Popular New Talent in 1995 and Most Popular Actress in 1997.

After leaving Home and Away, Fisher worked in British and American film, appearing in the box-office hit Scooby-Doo in 2002 and the ensemble comedy I Heart Huckabees in 2004. Her breakthrough came in 2005 with Wedding Crashers, in which her performance as the impulsive Gloria Cleary won her the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance and made her a sought-after comic actress.

She followed it with Wedding Daze in 2006, The Lookout and Hot Rod in 2007 and Definitely, Maybe in 2008, and voiced a character in the animated hit Horton Hears a Who! in 2008. Her first leading film role came in 2009 as the shopaholic journalist Rebecca Bloomwood in Confessions of a Shopaholic, and she voiced Beans in the Oscar-winning animated western Rango in 2011.

Fisher played Myrtle Wilson in Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby in 2013 and the escape artist Henley Reeves in the heist hit Now You See Me the same year, and she joined the cast of Arrested Development as Rebel Alley for its fourth and fifth seasons. She also appeared in the crime comedy Life of Crime in 2013, Grimsby in 2016, Keeping Up with the Joneses in 2016 and Nocturnal Animals in 2016, and voiced the Tooth Fairy in Rise of the Guardians in 2012.

More recently, Fisher starred in the Disney+ film Godmothered in 2020, voiced Maggie in Strays in 2023 and Sarah Hatoff in Dog Man in 2025, and played the lead role of Mary in the series Wolf Like Me from 2022 to 2023, on which she also served as an executive producer. In 2025 she returned as Henley Reeves in Now You See Me: Now You Don’t, 12 years after the first film, and she appears in the 2026 comedy Spa Weekend. Away from acting, Fisher met the comedian Sacha Baron Cohen at a party in Sydney in 2001. The pair married in Paris in March 2010 and have three children together. They separated at the end of 2023 and their divorce was finalized in June 2025.

Facts About Isla Fisher

She published two teen novels, Bewitched and Seduced by Fame, at the age of 18, written with her mother.
Her breakout Hollywood role was Gloria Cleary in Wedding Crashers in 2005, which won her the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.
She voiced Beans in Rango in 2011 and the Tooth Fairy in Rise of the Guardians in 2012.
In 2015 she donated 335,000 pounds each to Save the Children and the International Rescue Committee to support Syrian children.
She returned as Henley Reeves in Now You See Me: Now You Don’t in 2025, 12 years after the first film, and starred in the series Wolf Like Me, on which she was also an executive producer.

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Isla Fisher?

Isla Fisher is 50 years old. She was born on February 3, 1976, in Muscat, Oman.

Where was Isla Fisher born?

Isla Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, to Scottish parents. She spent her early childhood in Bathgate, Scotland, before her family moved to Perth, Australia, when she was six.

Is Isla Fisher married?

No. Isla Fisher was married to comedian Sacha Baron Cohen from 2010 to 2025. They have three children together.

What is Isla Fisher best known for?

Isla Fisher is best known for Home and Away, Wedding Crashers, Confessions of a Shopaholic, The Great Gatsby and Now You See Me.

Does Isla Fisher have children?

Yes. Isla Fisher has three children with her former husband Sacha Baron Cohen, born in 2007, 2010 and 2015.