Wissenswertes

While recording Despicable Me, the directors told her to sing a song about Unicorns and she made one up on the spot.

Elsie's favourite actor is Steve Carell, with whom she worked on Despicable Me.

When Elsie grows up she wants to be a scientist, an archaeologist, or a painter.

Nominated for the 2019 Golden Globe Award in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy category for her role as Kayla Day in Eighth Grade (2018), but lost to Olivia Colman for The Favourite - Intrigen und Irrsinn (2018).

Elsie started acting at the age of five.

Elsie was videotaped while recording her lines for Despicable Me so that the animators could use her speech movements.

Elsie has a cat named Judy and three dogs named Agnes (also the name of her character in Despicable Me), Ollie, and Allie.

Before rising to fame as the voice of Agnes, she appeared in a 2009 episode of the NBC series Medium.

For doing such a great job in Despicable Me, Elsie was given a twinkie as a reward.

She has a pet cat named Judy, after Jimmy Neutron's mom.

Elsie has been in over sixteen national commercials.

Elsie's favourite animal is the giraffe.

Elsie loved filming her commercial for Hershey's because she got to eat a lot of chocolate.

She has been playing Pokémon for over 10 years.

She is of half Scandinavian (Norwegian, Danish), as well as German, English, Swiss-German, Scottish, and distant Irish and Welsh, descent.

Despises being associated with the Ich - Einfach unverbesserlich (2010) series of films.

Sibling of Nathan Fisher.

She is best friends with actress Caitlin Carmichael.

In 2013, she acted in two episodes of the Fox series Raising Hope. She also starred in the 2018 film Eighth Grade as Kayla.

She and George Eads were both in the cast of the 2014 movie Gutshot Straight.

She is sometimes confused with Thomasin McKenzie.