Isla Fisher

The gorgeous actress Isla Fisher was born on February 3, 1976, in Muscat, Oman, but was raised in Perth, Western Australia. At nine years old Isla appeared in some Australian TV commercials that led to the part of Vanessa Walker on the TV series "Bay Cove." She is most famous in Australia for role as Shannon Reed in the soap opera "Home and Away," and she later went to Hollywood and stared in the films "Scooby-Do" & "I Heart Huckabees" but she is best known in the United States for her role as 'the stage five, virgin clinger' Gloria Cleary in the uproarious romantic comedy "Wedding Crashers." Isla was educated at the prestigious acting school Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris and is romantically linked to actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen.

In the immediate aftermath of David Dobkin's Wedding Crashers (2005), many American filmgoers began to associate Isla Fisher largely (if not exclusively) with her vivacious turn in that blockbuster summer comedy as the feisty and slightly off-kilter Gloria, sex-crazed daughter of treasury secretary William Cleary (Christopher Walken) and his wife (Jane Seymour). It was a testament not only to the memorable quality of the role but to Fisher's outstanding comic turn in it, as the seductress of gorilla Vince Vaughn. But this spunky, 5' 2" actress had much more up her sleeve than simply the Gloria Cleary bit.

Born in Oman but raised in Australia, Isla Fisher published two teen romance novels in high school, then traveled to France and enrolled in a Parisian drama school, where she learned miming and juggling. Though Fisher's onscreen presence technically dates back to the late 1980s, with a plum role in the small-screen Aussie soaper Home and Away, she took her Hollywood bow over a decade later, as Shaggy's girlfriend, Mary Jane, in the Raja Gosnell-directed Scooby Doo (2002). Sandwiched in-between forgettable features such as Dallas 362 (2003) and London (2005) came Isla's portrayal of Heather in the David O. Russell "existential comedy" I Heart Huckabees (2005). The actress starred as the "unlikely" wife of Jason Biggs (American Pie) in the 2006 romantic comedy Wedding Daze, then geared up for choice parts in the sports comedy Hot Rod (2007) and the thriller The Lookout. She also signed to voice one of the characters in the 2008 animated feature Horton Hears a Who, adapted from the classic book by Dr. Seuss. As this list demonstrates, Fisher continually evinced versatility and aptitude with a vast assortment of genres.