Trivia

While recording Despicable Me (2010), the directors told her to sing a song about unicorns, and she made one up on the spot.

Elsie's favorite actor is Steve Carell, whom she worked with on Despicable Me (2010).

Nominated for a 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 (2018). (2019)

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

Elsie was videotaped while recording her lines for Despicable Me (2010) so that the animators could use her speech movements.

Before rising to fame as the voice of Agnes, she appeared in an episode of the NBC series Medium (2005). (2009)

Elsie has a cat named Judy (named after Jimmy Neutron's mom) and three dogs named Agnes (the name of her character in Despicable Me (2010)), Ollie, and Allie.

Elsie started acting at the age of five.

For doing such a great job in Despicable Me (2010), Elsie was given a Twinkie as a reward.

Elsie has been in over 16 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 is of half Scandinavian (Norwegian, Danish), as well as German, English, Swiss-German, Scottish, and distant Irish and Welsh, descent.

She has been playing Pokémon for over 10 years.

Sibling of Nathan Fisher.

Despises being associated with the Despicable Me (2010) series of films.

She is best friends with actress Caitlin Carmichael.

In 2013, she acted in two episodes of the FOX series Raising Hope (2010). She also starred in the 2018 film Eighth Grade (2018) as Kayla.

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

She is sometimes confused with Thomasin McKenzie.