Isla Fisher is very protective of her personal life and does not wish to discuss her relationship with Sacha Baron Cohen or daughters Olive and Elula in detail in the media and we wish to respect the family’s wishes. As Isla says: “Motherhood is my favorite topic. In private! But publicly, I don’t want to talk about it. Because I don’t want to draw any extra attention to her. She didn’t choose to be born into… You know. She deserves her anonymity!” Here you can, however, read up a little bit about Isla’s funnyman fiance and their beautiful little girls.

Sacha Baron Cohen (born October 13, 1971) is an English comedian, writer and actor most noted for his comic characters Borat (a Kazakh reporter), Ali G (a junglist-hip hop gangsta wannabe from suburban Staines) and Bruno (a flamboyantly gay Austrian fashion reporter). Isla and Sacha began dating in 2002 after meeting at a party in Sydney, and the couple announced their engagement in late 2003. They were married on March 15th 2010 in Paris, in a small, private Jewish ceremony with only their daughter, Olive, and a few family and close friends in attendance. Isla, who says that she did not grow up in a religious household, has converted to Judaism after years of study, and has received the approval of Baron Cohen’s observant Jewish parents. “Judaism is such a beautiful, old religion thats so rich in culture,” says Isla, who also says that Judaism has “enriched my life enormously.” “I would do anything – move into any religion – to be united in marriage with him. We have a future together, and religion comes second to love as far as we are concerned,” commented Isla in 2004. According to Baron Cohen, “I wouldn’t say that I am a religious Jew, but I’m still proud to be Jewish.”

Isla says that her relationship with Sacha is “pretty nomadic” and quips that a 30cm height difference “doesn’t generally keep people apart”. In fact, she often jokes that she looks like a “circus freak” next to him, and was even mistaken for his daughter at a Hollywood party several years ago! Fisher comments that her personal life “is very important to me and it definitely comes first” but that she and Baron Cohen live pretty separate professional lives. They share a love of humour, among other things, and Isla says that “Sacha makes me laugh more than anyone, which is why I’m marrying him.” She adds that she and Sacha are “probably very similar in that we hide our feelings behind humour.” Indeed, Sacha was the one that encouraged Isla to go for more comedy roles in her career, as he thought she was really funny. Isla recalls him telling her ‘You are so funny, you need to be looking for comedic roles.’ She took this as a big compliment because she thinks of him as being so funny, and trusted and followed his advice. Sacha, who rarely gives interviews as himself, once hinted at his relationship with Isla at the Sydney premiere of Borat in 2006, when speaking as Borat, he said “I would very much like to find an Australian wife. My preference is for woman who has more hair on head than back.”

On October 19, 2007, Isla gave birth to her first child in Los Angeles, a daughter they named Olive. Isla and Sacha have not released an approved photograph of their daughter to the press but we know that their bundle of joy has dark features much like her father. The couple welcomed a second daughter into the world in August 2010, and named her Elula Lottie Miriam. Elula is the Hebrew word for August, after the month she was born in. True to their intensely private nature, Isla and Sacha did not confirm or announce either the pregnancy or birth of either of their daughters, nor do they talk about them publicly. Isla says that she loves being a mother and will be very picky with her roles to be able to spend as much time with Olive and Elula as possible. The family splits their time between London and New York, with Isla saying that “roots mean much more to me, just because it’s easier to get more sleep that way with a baby.”

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