Eddie Izzard Biography

Eddie Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime.

Her stand-up comedy tours have included Live at the Ambassadors (1993), Definite Article (1996), Glorious (1997), Dress to Kill (1998), Circle (2000), Stripped (2009), and Force Majeure (2013). She starred in the 2007 television series The Riches and has appeared in numerous films including Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen, Shadow of the Vampire, The Cat’s Meow, and Valkyrie. She has also worked as a voice actor on films such as Five Children and It, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Abominable, and the Netflix original series Green Eggs and Ham.

Among various accolades, Izzard won two Primetime Emmys for Dress to Kill and was nominated for a Tony Award for her Broadway performance in A Day in the Death of Joe Egg.

In 2009, she completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief despite having no history of long-distance running. In 2016, she ran 27 marathons in 27 days in South Africa in honor of Nelson Mandela, raising £1.35 million. Regularly performing in French, among other languages, Izzard is an active supporter of Europeanism and the European Union.

A dedicated Labour Party activist, she twice ran unsuccessfully for the party’s National Executive Committee but temporarily joined as runner-up after Christine Shawcroft resigned in March 2018. Izzard is genderfluid and has said she prefers she and her pronouns, but “[doesn’t] mind” he and him.

Eddie Izzard Age

Izzard is 59 years old as of 2021, she was born on 7 February 1962, in Aden, Aden Colony (now Aden, Yemen). He celebrates his birthday on 10 December every year and his birth sign is Aquarius.

Eddie Izzard Height and Weight

Izzard stands at an average height. She appears to be quite tall in stature of her photos, relative to his surroundings, are anything to go by. However, details regarding her actual height and other body measurements are currently not publicly available. We will update this section when the information is available.

Eddie Izzard Education

Izzard attended St John’s School in Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, St Bede’s Prep School, and Eastbourne College.

Eddie Izzard Family, Parents, and Siblings

Eddie Izzard Husband, Wife, Dating

Izzard keeps her romantic life private, citing the wishes of her companions not wanting to become content for her show. Izzard dated Sarah Townsend, who later directed the documentary Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story, and whom Izzard first met while running a Fringe venue at the Edinburgh Festival in 1989.

In the past, Izzard identified as a transvestite, and has also called herself “a lesbian trapped in a man’s body” and “a complete boy plus half girl”. According to her memoir Believe Me, Izzard first cross-dressed in public at the age of 23 with the help of a lesbian friend, an experience which ended in a verbal confrontation with three 13-year-old girls who had followed Izzard home from a public toilet.

She started to publicly identify as transvestite in venues such as the Edinburgh Festival as early as 1992. Her stance is that the way she dresses is neither part of her performance nor a sexual fetish. Izzard said “I don’t call it to drag; I don’t even call it cross-dressing. It’s just wearing a dress. … It’s not about artifice.

It’s about me just expressing myself.” She remarks in Unrepeatable that “women wear what they want and so do I”. She has expressed a personal conviction that being transgender is caused by genetics and that someday this will be scientifically proven, having gone so far as to have her own genome sequenced.

Eddie Izzard Salary

Details about Izzard’s salary are not yet disclosed. However, information about how much she makes will be updated as soon as it is available.

Eddie Izzard Net Worth

Izzard’s net worth is estimated to be between $1 million and $5 million. This includes his assets, money and income. Her primary source of income is her career as a stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and activist. Through her various sources of income, Izzard has been able to accumulate good fortune but prefers to lead a modest lifestyle.

Eddie Izzard Measurements and Facts

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Eddie Izzard Wiki

Full Names: Eddie Izzard
Popular As: Izzard
Gender: Female
Occupation / Profession: Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and activist
Nationality: English
Race / Ethnicity: White
Religion: Not Known
Sexual Orientation: Lesbian

Eddie Izzard Birthday

Age / How Old?: 59 (2021)
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius
Date of Birth: 7 February 1962
Place of Birth: Aden, Yemen
Birthday: February 7th

Eddie Izzard Body Measurements

Body Measurements: Not Available
Height / How Tall?: Not Known
Weight: Not Known
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Shoe Size: Not Available
Dress Size: Not Available
Breast Size: Not Available
Waist Size: Not Available
Hip Size: Not Available

Eddie Izzard Family and Relationship

Father (Dad): Harold John Izzard
Mother: Dorothy Ella
Siblings (Brothers and Sisters): Mark Izzard
Marital Status: Single
Dating / Girlfriend or Dating / Boyfriend: Single

Eddie Izzard Net Worth and Salary

Net Worth: $1 million and $5 million
Salary: Under Review
Source of Income: Stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and activist

Eddie Izzard Career

Izzard began to toy with comedy at the University of Sheffield with student friend Rob Ballard. After leaving accountancy, Izzard and Ballard took their act to the streets, often in Covent Garden. After splitting with Ballard, she spent a great deal of the early 1980s working as a street performer in Europe and the United States.

She says that she developed her comedic voice by talking to the audience while doing solo escape acts. She then moved her act to the stand-up comedy venues of Britain, the first gig being at the Banana Cabaret in Balham, London.

In 1987, she made her first stage appearance at the Comedy Store in London. She refined her comedy material throughout the 1980s, and in the early 1990s began earning recognition through improvisation, in part at her own club, “Raging Bull” in Soho. Izzard’s ‘big break’ came in 1991 after performing her “Raised by Wolves” sketch on the televised “Hysteria 3” AIDS benefit.

In 2000, for her comedy special Dress to Kill, Izzard won two Primetime Emmy Awards: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program and Outstanding Writing for a Variety or Music Program, while the special was nominated for Outstanding Variety, Music, or Comedy Special.

She speaks French and has performed stand-up shows in the language; from 2014 she began to perform in German, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic, languages that she did not previously speak.

In 1994, Izzard made her West End drama debut as the lead in the world premiere of David Mamet’s The Cryptogram with Lindsay Duncan, in the production at London’s Comedy Theatre. The success of that role led to a second starring role, in David Beaird’s black comedy 900 Oneonta. In 1995, she portrayed the title character in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II.

In 1998, she appeared briefly on stage with Monty Python in The American Film Institute’s Tribute to Monty Python (also referred to as Monty Python Live at Aspen). As part of an inside joke, she walked on stage with the five surviving Pythons and was summarily escorted off by Eric Idle and Michael Palin when attempting to participate in a discussion about how the group got together.

In July 2014, she appeared on stage with Monty Python during their live show Monty Python Live (Mostly) as the special guest in their “Blackmail” sketch.

She portrayed comedian Lenny Bruce in the 1999 production of Julian Barry’s 1971 play Lenny. In 2001, she replaced Clive Owen in Peter Nichols’ 1967 play A Day in the Death of Joe Egg at the Comedy Theatre. Izzard and Victoria Hamilton repeated their lead roles when the show was brought to Broadway in 2003 in the Roundabout Theatre Company production.

The revival received four Tony Award nominations, including Best Revival of a Play, Best Leading Actor, and Best Leading Actress for its stars Izzard and Hamilton in their Broadway debuts, and Best Direction for Laurence Boswell. In June 2010, she replaced James Spader in the role of Jack Lawson in David Mamet’s play Race on Broadway.

She has appeared in numerous films, starting with 1996’s The Secret Agent, and has appeared as several real-life individuals, including Charlie Chaplin in The Cat’s Meow, actor Gustav von Wangenheim in Shadow of the Vampire, General Erich Fellgiebel in Valkyrie, and wartime pioneer of radar Robert Watson-Watt in the BBC drama film Castles in the Sky.

Other roles have included Mr. Kite in Across the Universe, Lussurioso in Revengers Tragedy, and criminal expert Roman Nagel in Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen. Her voice work has included the titular “It” in Five Children and It, Nigel in The Wild, and the mouse warrior Reepicheep in The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian.

Izzard declined to reprise the role as Reepicheep, a role understudied by Simon Pegg in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. She has stated that she felt she learned to act while working on the film Circus.

She appeared in the 2009 BBC science fiction miniseries The Day of the Triffids, based on the 1951 novel, alongside Jason Priestley, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Dougray Scott, and Brian Cox. She played Dr. Hatteras, a skeptical psychology professor, in the Showtime series United States of Tara and appeared in six episodes of the 2013–15 American psychological horror television series Hannibal as Dr. Abel Gideon.

At the London 2012 Paralympic Games, Izzard presented the medals to the athletes who had won the 800m T54 race, including gold medalist David Weir.

She has appeared on a number of episodes of BBC One’s Have I Got News for You, as well as a guest on The Daily Show. In 2017, she read excerpts from her autobiography Believe Me for BBC Radio 4’s Book of the Week in 2017.

Eddie Izzard Movies and TV Shows

Film

1995 The Oncoming Storm

1996 The Secret Agent

1998 Velvet Goldmine
The Avengers

1999 Mystery Men
The Criminal

2000 Circus
Shadow of the Vampire

2001 The Cat’s Meow
All the Queen’s Men

2002 Revengers Tragedy

2004 Alien Invasion
Blueberry
Five Children and It
Ocean’s Twelve

2005 Romance & Cigarettes
The Aristocrats

2006 The Wild
My Super Ex-Girlfriend

2007 Ocean’s Thirteen
Across the Universe

2008 The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Igor
Valkyrie

2009 Rage
Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story

2010 Every Day

2011 Cars 2
Lost Christmas

2014 Boychoir

2015 Absolutely Anything
Day Out of Days

2016 Whisky Galore!
Rock Dog

2017 The Lego Batman Movie
Victoria & Abdul

2019 Get Duked!
Abominable
The Song of Names

2020 The High Note
Six Minutes to Midnight

Television

1991 Barf Bites Back

1994 Open Fire

1995 Aristophanes: The Gods are Laughing

1996 Tales from the Crypt

1998 Rex the Runt

1999 Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python

2002 Mongrel Nation
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

2003 40

2006 The Secret Policeman’s Ball

2007 Kitchen

2007–2008 The Riches

2008 The Secret Policeman’s Ball

2009 The Day of the Triffids

2010 Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man
The Simpsons

2011 United States of Tara
The Good Wife

2012 The Secret Policeman’s Ball
Treasure Island
Bullet in the Face
Mockingbird Lane

2013 Meet the Izzards

2013–2015 Hannibal

2014 Castles in the Sky

2015 Powers
The Devil You Know

2016 The Big Fat Quiz of Everything

2018 Travel Man

2019 The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance
Green Eggs and Ham

TBA Stay Close

Theatre

• 900 Oneonta (1994)
• The Cryptogram (1994)
• Edward II (1995)
• Lenny (1999)
• A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (2001–2002, 2003)
• Trumbo (2003)
• Race (2010)
• What About Dick? (2012)

Video games

2000 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue
2011 Cars 2

Eddie Izzard Songs

15 November 1993 Live at the Ambassadors
14 March 1994 Unrepeatable
21 October 1996 Definite Article
17 November 1997 Glorious
9 November 1998 Dress to Kill
18 November 2002 Circle
26 November 2003 Sexie
23 November 2009 Stripped
15 January 2011 Live at Madison Square Garden
18 November 2013 Force Majeure

Eddie Izzard Awards and Achievements

In 2003, Izzard received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, for her work promoting “modern languages and tolerance of other cultures and lifestyles”, and for having “transcended national barriers” with humor.

She has also received honorary doctorates from the University of Sunderland in 2012, York St John University in 2018, and the University of Sheffield in 2006, where she had spent a year on an Accounting and Financial Management course in the early 1980s and established the now-defunct Alternative Productions Society in the Union of Students with the aim of promoting fringe-based arts. She was elected Honorary President of Sheffield’s Students’ Union in 2010.

Izzard’s website won the Yahoo People’s Choice Award in 2004 and a Webby Award in 2005. In 2007, Izzard was listed as number 3 of the 100 Greatest British National Comedians (behind Peter Kay at number 2 and Billy Connolly at number 1) as part of British television station Channel 4’s ongoing 100 Greatest … series, and was ranked 5th in 2010.

In 2013, Izzard received the 6th Annual Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism, which is presented at Harvard University each year by the Humanist Community at Harvard, the American Humanist Association, and the Harvard Community of Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics.

In 2015, Izzard was chosen, by readers of The Guardian as their 2014 public language champion. The award was announced at the Guardian and British Academy 2014 Schools Language Awards as part of the annual Language Festival.

Frequently Asked Questions About Eddie Izzard

Who is Eddie Izzard?

Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and activist. Her comedic style takes the form of rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime.

How old is Eddie Izzard?

Izzard is an American national born on 7^th February 1962, in Aden, Aden Colony (now Aden, Yemen).

How tall is Eddie Izzard?

Izzard stands at an average height, she has not shared her height with the public. His/her height will be listed once we have it from a credible source.

Is Eddie Izzard married?

How much is Eddie Izzard worth?

Izzard has an approximate net worth of $1 million and $5 million. This amount has been accrued from her leading roles in the entertainment industry.

How much does Eddie Izzard make?