Isla Fisher and Sacha Baron Cohen are the proud parents of a baby girl, according to reports in Fisher’s native Australia. Not much more is known other than the sex of the baby and it is unclear when the baby was born. Fisher’s rep claims to know nothing about it, so maybe she just hasn’t talked to the happy couple yet.
Australian actress Isla Fisher has reportedly given birth to a baby girl.
Sources said Fisher, who is married to English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen – the creator Borat and Ali G, has given birth. However, a spokeswoman from her agent, Shanahan Management, said they knew nothing about it, Fairfax reported.
Fisher, who is finding success in Hollywood, told The Daily Mail on Tuesday that she was happy to take a break from her career to concentrate on being a mum.
Isla was seen out last week and looked healthy and ready to have her baby. She has no plans to work in the near future and says she is not going to worry about losing weight or missing out on work.
Congratulations to Isla and Sacha and hopefully they picked a decent name for their little one.
Update: Celebrity Baby Blog is reporting that they had a boy, not a girl, and that he was born on Wednesday morning at 11 and his name is Sadler James.
I applaud this kind of common sense attitude, for all mothers not just Hollywood types. Isla also says she plans on focusing on parenthood and colouring books “for the next few years”. Still, according to IMDB.com Isla has at least one movie scheduled for next year. And I had forgotten, but she wrote two novels before going on to act in Australian soap opera Home and Away. Maybe she could write colouring books?
She still gets recognised for her role as nymphomaniac Gloria in the movie Wedding Crashers.
“Recently I was in the supermarket when this guy must have recognised me as Gloria,” she said.
“He just kind of screamed and ran away from me in the cheese section.
“It was absolutely brilliant. But I do like to think that some people might actually have liked Gloria.”
Isla is in a new movie called Hot Rod, in which she plays a stuntman’s dream girl.
Picture note by Celebitchy: Here is Isla at the Hot Rod movie premiere on 7/26/07. According to IMDB, she has three movies coming out next year: Definitely, Maybe, the animated movie Horton Hears a Who, and Groupies. All but Groupies are finished filming, so she won’t have a lot on her plate. Thanks to PRPhotos for these pictures.
Page Six reports that Sacha Baron Cohen, better known as Borat, Ali G and Bruno, didn’t pose for pictures at a pre Golden Globes party. He looks a bit reluctant posing with his Globe at the Paramount after party in these pictures. They say he wants to stay out of the spotlight and it could be so that he can continue pulling the wool over people’s eyes while in character. He’s about to film a new movie as another one of his alter egos, flaming Austrian fashion commentor Bruno, and doesn’t want to be recognized.
Stardom seems to have gone to the head of Sacha Baron Cohen, who attended HBO’s pre-Golden Globes party at the Chateau Marmont, but refused to pose for photos. “He needs to stop being so recognizable,” laughed one spy.
Cohen – who seems more comfortable when he stays in character as Ali G or Borat – is said to be “shunning publicity” to prepare for his next movie, where he’ll star as his third character, the flamboyant Austrian fashion reporter Bruno.
My favorite Bruno bit is when he interviews a Miami club owner and asks him how he makes sure undesirables – like people in wheelchairs – can’t get in. The guy answers all serious-like that he just puts people off to the side and makes them wait. (At least that’s how I remember it.)
I’ve read this before about Cohen, and it seems like he wants to keep his personal life private and is only comfortable being in the spotlight when he’s in character. He’s dedicated to the Jewish faith and keeps the Sabbath, which seems like a wild contrast to the misogynistic Kazakh who sang “throw the Jew down the well” to a room full of cheering yokels.
I wonder what kind of psychological issues that can create in a person. There was a story in mid November about Hugh Laurie saving Cohen from getting beaten up by an angry guy on the street who was the victim of one of Borat’s pranks. Commentors said at that time that Cohen is a lot like Andy Kaufman of Taxi fame. Poor Boopie said “This is a guy who does not like to be out of character and blurs the line between character and reality.” (Andy Kaufman was so good at character-based comedy, that some fans still doubt that Kaufman is dead, calling it an elaborate hoax. Kaufman was said to have died in 1984 of renal failure caused by a rare form of lung cancer. Kaufman was a non-smoker and told people that he waunted to fake his death.)
There seems to be a difference between playing a role for years, like on a long-running soap opera, and pretending you actually are that character when you meet other people IRL. Maybe Cohen just doesn’t want fans to know who he is so they’ll be more convinced by his obnoxious characters. It’s got to affect him, thogh, and his kind of apologetic look here suggests that the “real” Cohen isn’t that comfortable in the spotlight.
Here’s Cohen’s Golden Globe acceptance speech. He seems all serious in the beginning, and then cracks a joke about having his costar sit on his face:
Update: pictures removed due to end of subscription agreement with photo agency.
30 year old Isla Fisher is an Australian actress, model, and author. She is best known for her appearance in “Wedding Crashers” as Rachel McAdam’s clingy sister, Gloria Cleary. She won the 2006 MTV Movie Award for “Best Breakthrough Performance” for that role.
Fisher is engaged to the hysterical Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G.
She played Shannon Reed, a fiery, opinionated teenager, on Australian soap Home and Away from 1994-1997. During this time, she wrote two books, Seduced by Fame, about an ambitious aspiring actress whose dreams come true when she wins a role on her favourite show, and Bewitched, about a naive ballerina who searches for her father and falls in love for the first time. Most recently, she starred in Wedding Crashers with Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, and Rachel McAdams, and won praise for her comedic performance in the movie. In June 2006 she collected the Breakthrough Performance prize at the MTV Movie Awards for her role in Wedding Crashers. In 2006 she starred as Becca, a Manhattan party host in the offbeat relationship drama London alongside Jessica Biel, Chris Evans and Jason Statham.
Isla’s acceptance speech at the MTV movie awards must have been excellent. She is quoted as saying: “For most people, playing a bipolar nymphomaniac would have been a challenge, but I just played myself.”
“Wedding Crashers” was the big winner at the 2006 MTV Movie Awards, taking home the golden popcorn for best picture and best on-screen team for Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson.
Here is Isla at the MTV Movie Awards, which airs this Thursday night. [via]
