Isla Lang Fisher (born 3 February 1976) is an Australian actress and author. She began acting on Australian Television, playing Shannon Reed on the Australian soap opera Home and Away, and has since become known for her roles in the 2005 comedy Wedding Crashers, opposite Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson, 2007′s Hot Rod. and 2009′s Confessions of a Shopaholic.
Fisher was born in Muscat, Oman to Scottish parents from Bathgate and Stranraer. They resided in Muscat because of her father’s job as a banker for the United Nations. Her name, after the Scottish island of Islay, is pronounced eye-la; she has four brothers. Fisher spent her infancy in Bathgate before moving with her family to Perth, Western Australia, when she was nine months old. Fisher has said that she had a “great” upbringing in Perth with a “very outdoorsy life”. She began appearing in commercials on Australian television at the age of nine, before going on to win roles in popular children’s television shows Bay City and Paradise Beach. She attended Methodist Ladies’ College and appeared in lead roles in school productions.
The movie begins with a young girl (Emily Browning) and a boy lying on the beach at a party. After he tells her he loves her and he “has a condom,” she gets up to leave. As she goes, her sister Alex (Arielle Kebbel) asks if everything is alright. On her way through the woods to her house, Anna encounters several white garbage bags. When she goes to open them, the corpse of a red-headed girl falls out. As Anna recoils, the girl’s head snaps around and she speaks. Anna runs home. She then hears the bell that her mother, who is terminally ill, rings when she needs something. Anna is concerned because her mother is not supposed to be alone. However, when she goes up to her house, the boathouse her mother is in explodes in flames. It is then revealed that this is a dream that Anna is having.
