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Pilot Season - Comedy Web Series co-starring Isla
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October 2008 - Elle Magazine's Women In Hollywood
Isla Fisher broke into comedy and stole the biggest laughs in Wedding Crashers. Now, as the lead of Disney’s Confessions of a Shopaholic, she’s soon to be a classic Hollywood comedienne

Though “newcomer” is a tag that’s frequently pinned on Isla Fisher, it’s somewhat off the mark, a bit like an American tourist sticking a flag into a Sydney Airport runway and claiming he’s discovered a land where dogs hop on hind legs. True, the flame-haired 32-year-old is new blood to us Yanks. Until her big “Who is that?” moment as the bipolar nymphomaniac who brutalizes Vince Vaughn into loving her in 2005’s Wedding Crashers, she existed here solely as the romantic appendage to Borat and Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen.

But a good chunk of the English-speaking world already knew Fisher, who got started at 12 doing commercials and children’s TV in Perth, Australia. Britain’s Soap Opera Digest crowd remember her big break in 1994 playing troubled teen Shannon Reed on Home and Away, the exported Australian soap that’s featured onetime nobodies such as Guy Pearce, Naomi Watts, and Heath Ledger. (It’s tough to forget a teenager like Shannon, who, in three years, suffered a bout of anorexia, remembered she’d been molested by a dirty uncle, propositioned a married man, and finally blew town with her lesbian lover.) “That show was like an apprenticeship,” Fisher says. “Some of the lines were so laughable, you’d really have to work harder than you ever will again to make them even seem realistic.” (Toughest sell: “Wild horses wouldn’t drag me away from you.”)

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