Isla Lang Fisher is an Australian actress and voice actress. She is best known for her supporting roles in films and television shows, such as Shannon Reed in the 1988 Australian soap opera Home and Away and Gloria Cleary in the 2005 comedy film Wedding Crashers. She also voiced Dr. LaRue in Blue Sky's 2008 adaptation of Horton Hears a Who!, Beans in the 2011 Paramount/Nickelodeon Western comedy film Rango, and Toothiana in the 2012 DreamWorks film Rise of the Guardians.
Early life[]
Isla Lang Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman, on February 3, 1976, the daughter of Scottish parents Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher. At the time, her father was working there as a banker for the United Nations. Fisher and her family returned to their hometown of Bathgate, Scotland, then moved to Australia when she was six years old and settled in Perth. She has four brothers and said that she had a "great" upbringing in Perth with a "very outdoorsy life". She has stated that her "sensibility is Australian", she has a "laid-back attitude to life", and that she feels "very Australian". Her parents later separated; her mother and brothers now live in Athens, Greece, while her father lives in Frankfurt, Germany. Fisher attended Swanbourne Primary School and Methodist Ladies' College in Perth. She appeared in lead roles in school productions such as Little Shop of Horrors. At the age of 21, she attended L'École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris, where she studied clown, mime, musical theatre, and commedia dell'arte.