Isla Fisher is an Australian actress and author. She was born in Muscat, Oman on February 3, 1976, to Scottish parents Elspeth Reid and Brian Fisher , who worked as a banker for the U.N. Fisher moved to Australia at age six with her family and she began appearing in Australian TV commercials at the age of nine. She landed some small parts in the Australian television series Bay City (1993) and then a bigger part in the television series Paradise Beach (1993). When that show ended , she landed a role in the long-running Australian soap opera Home and Away (1988). Fisher has also published two best-selling novels , "Seduced By Fame" and "Bewitched".