Eddie Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and political activist. Her comedic style takes the form of rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime. She has appeared in Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen, Mystery Men, Shadow of the Vampire, Across the Universe, Valkyrie, and Victoria & Abdul. In July 2014, she appeared on stage with Monty Python as part of their live show ‘Blackmail’
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Eddie Izzard is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and political activist. Her comedic style takes the form of rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime. She has appeared in Ocean’s Twelve, Ocean’s Thirteen, Mystery Men, Shadow of the Vampire, The Cat’s Meow, Across the Universe, Valkyrie, and Victoria & Abdul. She also worked as a voice actor in The Wild, Igor, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Cars 2, The Lego Batman Movie, Abominable, and the Netflix original series Green Eggs and Ham. In 2009, she completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief despite having no history of long-distance running. In July 2014, she appeared on stage with Monty Python as part of their live show ‘Blackmail’ She has been a Labour Party activist for most of her adult life. Twice, she ran for a seat on Labour’s National Executive Committee. When Christine Shawcroft resigned in March 2018, she took her place by default, but was not re-elected in that summer’s NEC elections. In 1995, she portrayed the title character in Christopher Marlowe’s comedy 900 One II. In 1998, she briefly appeared briefly on stage in The American Film Institute’s Tribute to Monty Pythons. She was escorted off the stage with five surviving Pythons and was summarily escorted off by Eric Idle and Michael Palin as she attempted to participate in a discussion about how the group got together. She is of French Huguenot origin.
Her mother was a midwife and nurse; her father was an accountant who was working in Aden with British Petroleum. She knew she was a transgender person at the age of four, after watching a boy being forced to wear a dress by his sisters. She and her brother built a model railway to occupy their time while their mother was ill. When she was one year old, the family moved to Northern Ireland, settling in Bangor, County Down, where they lived until she was five. She attended St John’s School in Porthcawl, Mid Glamorgan, St Bede’s Prep School and Eastbourne College. She spent a great deal of the early 1980s working as a street performer in Europe and the United States. In 1987, she made her first stage appearance at the Comedy Store in London. She refined her material throughout the 1980s, and in the early 1990s began earning recognition through her improvisation, in part at her own club, \”Raging Bull\” in Soho. Her big break came in 1991 when she performed her \”Raised by Wolves\” sketch on the televised \”Hysteria 3\” AIDS benefit. She speaks French and has performedStand-up shows in the language; from 2014 she began to perform in German, Spanish, Russian, and Arabic, languages that she did not previously speak. She has won numerous awards, including a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for her comedy special Dress to Kill.
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