Born in Menstrie and raised in Edinburgh, Langholm and Neilston, Fisher attended Barrhead High School and the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. He entered television with comedians Rikki Fulton and Hector Nicol, appearing in the sketch series Scotch and Wry and the drama Just a Boys' Game, and took early film roles such as Parsons’s neighbour in Michael Radford’s Nineteen Eight…
