Name
Elsie Kate Fisher
Birthplace
Riverside, California, United States
Birth date
April 3, 2003
Occupation
Actor
Active Years
2007-present
Elsie Kate Fisher (born April 3, 2003) is an American actor.
Filmography[]
- Despicable Me (2010) - Agnes
- Dirty Girl (2010) - Tiffany
- Despicable Me 2 (2013) - Agnes
- Bad Behavior (2013) - Grace
- Vertical (2013)
- McFarland, USA (2015) - Jamie White
- Eighth Grade (2018) - Kayla Day
- The Addams Family (2019) - Parker Needler
Gallery[]
Quotes[]
- "My favorite thing to do is play video games. I love Pokemon; I'm going to get a new Pokemon game soon."
- "I want to act for a long time, but, later when I grow up, I also want to be a scientist!"
- [on what they want to be when they grow up] "I think I'll be a scientist or a veterinarian."
- [on why they liked making animated movies] "I like doing animated films because you don't have to act it out or do it a lot of times."
- [on the one thing they couldn't live without] "It would be my family, it really would be my family."
- [on acting] It's not hard to act - "I'm just super good at it. I like that you get to meet a lot of new friends. That's what I really love about it."
- [on their favorite scene in Despicable Me] "My favorite scene to do was when I said IT'S SO FLUFFY!"
Trivia[]
- While recording Despicable Me, the directors told them to sing a song about Unicorns and they made one up on the spot.
- Elsie's favorite actor is Steve Carell, with whom they worked on Despicable Me.
- When Elsie grows up they wanted to be a scientist, an archaeologist, or a painter.
- Elsie was videotaped while recording their lines for Despicable Me so that the animators could use their speech movements.
- Elsie has a cat named Judy and three dogs named Agnes (also the name of their character in Despicable Me), Ollie, and Allie.
- Elsie started acting at the age of five.
- They have a pet cat named Judy, after Jimmy Neutron's mom.
- Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category for their role as Kayla Day in Eighth Grade (2018), but lost to Olivia Colman for The Favourite (2018).
- Before rising to fame as the voice of Agnes, they appeared in a 2009 episode of the NBC series Medium.
- Elsie has been in over sixteen national commercials.
- For doing such a great job in Despicable Me, Elsie was given a twinkie as a reward.
- Elsie's favorite animal is the giraffe.
- Elsie loved filming their commercial for Hershey's because they get to eat a lot of chocolate.
- They have been playing Pokémon for over 10 years.
- They are of half Scandinavian (Norwegian, Danish), as well as German, English, Swiss-German, Scottish, and distant Irish and Welsh, descent.
- Despises being associated with the Despicable Me (2010) series of films.
- Sibling of Nathan Fisher.
- They are best friends with actress Caitlin Carmichael.
- They and George Eads were both in the cast of the 2014 movie Gutshot Straight.
- In 2013, they acted in two episodes of the Fox series Raising Hope. They also starred in the 2018 film Eighth Grade as Kayla.