Eddie Izzard
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Suzy Eddie IzzardTemplate:Efn (Template:IPAc-en Template:Respell; born Edward John Izzard, 7 February 1962) is a British stand-up comedian, actor and activist. HerTemplate:Efn comedic style takes the form of what appears to the audience as rambling whimsical monologues and self-referential pantomime.
Izzard's stand-up comedy tours have included Live at the Ambassadors (1993), Definite Article (1996), Glorious (1997), Dress to Kill (1998), Circle (2000), Stripped (2009), Force Majeure (2013) and Wunderbar (2022). She starred in the television series The Riches (2007–2008) and has appeared in numerous films, including Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Valkyrie (2008), Absolutely Anything (2015) and Six Minutes to Midnight (2020). Izzard has also worked as a voice actor on films such as Five Children and It (2004), The Wild (2006), The Lego Batman Movie (2017) and the Netflix original series Green Eggs and Ham (2019). Among various accolades, she 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, Izzard 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 honour of Nelson Mandela, raising £1.35 million. In addition to her native English, she has performed stand-up in Arabic, French, German, Russian and Spanish, and is an active supporter of Europeanism and the European Union.
A dedicated Labour Party activist, Izzard twice ran unsuccessfully for the party's National Executive Committee and then joined as the most successful initially non-elected person after Christine Shawcroft resigned in March 2018. In 2022 and 2023, Izzard attempted to become the party's prospective parliamentary candidate (for Sheffield Central and Brighton Pavilion respectively); she was not selected in the members' ballots.
Early life and education
[edit]Edward John Izzard<ref name =chase2018>Template:Cite book</ref> was born in Aden (then in Aden Colony and now in Yemen)<ref name="bono_intrvw"/> on 7 February 1962,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> to English parents Dorothy Ella Izzard (1927–1968) and Harold John Michael Izzard (1928–2018). Their surname is of French Huguenot origin.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Dorothy was a midwife and nurse, while Harold was an accountant who was working in Aden for British Petroleum at the time of Edward's birth.<ref name="nytimes_james"/><ref name="tlgrph_farndale"/> A brother, Mark, was born two years earlier.<ref name="tlgrph_farndale"/>
When Izzard was a year old, the family moved to Northern Ireland and settled in Bangor, where they lived until Izzard was five.<ref name="bono_intrvw"/><ref name="nytimes_james"/><ref name="sydmornher_1"/><ref name="indpndnt_sweeney"/> The family then moved to Wales, where they lived in Skewen.<ref name="tlgrph_farndale"/>
Izzard was six when her mother died of cancer.<ref name="tlgrph_farndale"/><ref name="sydmornher_1"/><ref name="mirror_neil"/> The siblings built a model railway to occupy their time while their mother was ill, which was later donated to Bexhill Museum in 2016.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Following the death, Izzard attended the private St John's School in Newton,<ref name="latimes_brownfield"/> St Bede's Prep School in Eastbourne,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and Eastbourne College.<ref name="tlgrph_farndale"/><ref name="sydmornher_1"/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She has said that she knew she was transgender at the age of four, after watching a boy being forced to wear a dress by his sisters,<ref name="nails">Template:Cite web</ref> and knew she wanted to be an actor at the age of seven.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
She studied drama at the University of Sheffield.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Career
[edit]Comedy
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Izzard began to toy with comedy while at university with her friend Rob Ballard.<ref name="thsndytmes_appleyard"/><ref name="latimes_taylor"/> The two took their act to the streets,<ref name="thsndytmes_appleyard"/><ref name="latimes_taylor"/> often in the Covent Garden district of London.<ref name="latimes_brownfield"/><ref name="indpndnt_burrell"/><ref name="thisislondon_dessau"/> After splitting with Ballard, Izzard 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.<ref>Template:Citation</ref> She then moved her act to the stand-up comedy venues of Britain, performing her routine for the first time at the Banana Cabaret in London's Balham area.<ref name="sydmornher_1"/><ref name="itunes_amstell"/>
In 1987, Izzard's first stage appearance was at the Comedy Store in London.<ref name="indpndnt_sweeney"/> She refined her comedy material throughout the 1980s and began earning recognition through improvisation in the early 1990s, in part at her own club, Raging Bull in Soho.<ref name="thisislondon_dessau"/> Her breakthrough came in 1991 after she performed her "raised by wolves" routine on the televised Hysteria 3 AIDS benefit.<ref>Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story (2009)</ref>
In 2000, for the 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Izzard is fluent in French and has performed stand-up shows in the language; since 2014, she has also started to perform in Arabic, German, Russian and Spanish,<ref name="French">Template:Cite news</ref> languages that she did not previously speak.<ref name="German">Template:Cite news</ref>
Acting
[edit]In 1994, Izzard's 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 1998, Izzard 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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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Izzard 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.<ref name="nytimes_brantley"/>
Izzard has appeared in numerous films, starting with The Secret Agent in 1996, 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. Izzard has stated that she felt she learned to act while working on the film Circus.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
In 2009, Izzard was the subject of Sarah Townsend's documentary Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which addresses BBC's Watchdog<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> reporting<ref name="Double-2013-Stand-Up">Template:Cite book</ref> of "recycling material from an old tour".<ref name="independent.co.uk-2164715">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="independent.co.uk-2162947">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="auntiemomo">Template:Cite web</ref>
Izzard 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.<ref name="telegraph_1"/> She played Dr. Hatteras, a sceptical psychology professor, in the Showtime series United States of Tara<ref name="hitfix_fienberg"/> and appeared in six episodes of the 2013–15 American psychological horror television series Hannibal as Dr. Abel Gideon.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2021, she appeared in the television series The Lost Symbol based on Dan Brown's 2009 novel of the same name.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
She has appeared on a number of episodes of BBC One's Have I Got News for You and as a guest on The Daily Show.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In 2017, she read excerpts from her autobiography Believe Me for BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
From 25 January to 3 March 2024, Izzard performed a one-person version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, adapted by her brother Mark and directed by Selina Cadell, at the Greenwich House Theater in New York.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The run was extended three times. The show transferred to Riverside Studios, London, with previews from 23 May 2024.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Charity work
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On 27 July 2009, with only five weeks' training and no significant prior running experience, Izzard began seven weeks of back-to-back marathon runs (with Sundays off) across the UK to raise money for Sport Relief.<ref name="bbc_heald"/> She ran from London to Cardiff to Belfast to Edinburgh and back to London, carrying the flag of the country—England, Scotland, or Wales—in which she was running. In Northern Ireland, she carried a self-designed green flag bearing a white dove. The blog Eddie Iz Running documented the 43 marathons in 51 days, covering at least 27 miles per day (totalling more than 1,100 miles), ending on 15 September 2009.<ref name="comicrelief_1"/> Izzard received a special award at BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2009 for these achievements.<ref name="bbc_20081213"/> In March 2010, she took part in the Sport Relief Mile event.<ref name="telegraph_nikkhah"/>
On 16 February 2016, the BBC announced that Izzard would attempt to run 27 marathons in 27 days through South Africa for Sport Relief.<ref>Gay, Jason Eddie Izzard Runs. And Runs. And Runs: The British comedian is aiming to run a total of 27 marathons in 27 days The Wall Street Journal. 18 March 2016.</ref> The significance of the number 27 came from the number of years Nelson Mandela was held in prison. In total, she would aim to run more than 700 miles in temperatures of up to 40 °C. Izzard had attempted such a project in South Africa in 2012, but withdrew due to health concerns.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She completed the first marathon on 23 February 2016, completing the marathon challenge on 20 March 2016 at the statue of Mandela in front of the Union Buildings in Pretoria. Because she had spent a day in hospital, she had to run two consecutive marathons on this last day. She raised more than £1.35M for Sport Relief.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A BBC documentary detailing the feat was broadcast on 28 March.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
On 8 December 2020, Izzard announced<ref name="Chortle">Template:Cite news</ref> that she would attempt to run 31 marathons and perform 31 stand-up gigs, in the 31 days of January 2021 to raise money for a range of charities including Fareshare, Walking With The Wounded, Care International, United to Combat Neglected Tropical Diseases and Covenant House.<ref name="Metro - legs knackered">Template:Cite news</ref> The series of marathons raised in excess of £275,000.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Activism
[edit]Political views
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Izzard is a vocal supporter of Europeanism and European integration, and has campaigned in support of the European Union. In May 2005, she appeared on the BBC's political debate show Question Time, describing herself as a "British-European", comparing this with other cultural identities such as "African-American". As part of her campaigning, Izzard was one of the first people to spend a euro in London. This pan-European approach has influenced her work, regularly performing in French<ref name="indpndnt_burrell"/><ref name="hitfix_fienberg"/> and occasionally in German.<ref name="thisislondon_dessau"/> On a June 2017 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, she claimed to be working in English, French, German and Spanish.<ref name="German"/><ref name="French"/>
Izzard campaigned in favour of replacing first-past-the-post with the alternative vote as a system for electing MPs in a 2011 referendum<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and is a supporter of the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform. She is also a proponent of British republicanism, believing that the UK should have a democratically elected head of state instead of a monarchy.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> She has stated that she is a social democrat, but not a socialist.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> During the 2014 Scottish independence referendum, Izzard led a campaign encouraging Scottish people not to vote for independence and said the rest of the UK would feel a "deep sense of loss" if Scotland were to leave.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Izzard campaigned unsuccessfully against the closure of the departments of Drama and Languages, Linguistics and Translation at the University of East Anglia, although the department of Drama was later reprieved.<ref name=UEA>Template:Cite news</ref>
Labour Party
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Izzard joined the Labour Party in 1995<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref> and in 1998 was listed as one of the largest private donors to the party.<ref name="bbc_19980830"/> In 2008, she donated nearly £10,000 to it.<ref name="politics_1"/> She appeared in party political broadcasts for the Labour Party in the run-up to the 2005 general election and 2009 European election, as well as a 2010 election video entitled Brilliant Britain. During the 2015 general election, she attended a rally with fellow comedian Ben Elton and actor Sally Lindsay.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Expressing support for Labour in the 2017 general election, she said that the then-leader of the party Jeremy Corbyn "believes in what he says".<ref name="independent">Template:Cite news</ref>
At various times, Izzard said she would run for Mayor of London in 2020.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> When asked on the comedy panel show The Last Leg why she would be elected, Izzard replied, "Boris Johnson."<ref>Eddie Izzard will run for London Mayor in 2020 Template:Webarchive. 3 News NZ. 26 September 2013.</ref> However, she was not a candidate for the delayed 2021 London mayoral election.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Izzard unsuccessfully ran for a seat on the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in 2016 and 2018.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> After Christine Shawcroft resigned in March 2018, Izzard replaced her as the next runner-up, but failed to secure re-election that summer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
On 25 August 2022, Izzard stated in an interview on BBC Radio Sheffield that she would like to ask the local Constituency Labour Party to stand in Sheffield Central, replacing the incumbent MP Paul Blomfield, who is standing down at the 2024 election.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Local reaction, according to the Sheffield Star newspaper, was mixed.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She launched her election campaign on 11 October.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 5 December, it was reported that a local Sheffield City councillor had been selected as the party's candidate for the safe seat, with Izzard coming second in the members' vote.<ref name=":0"/>
In August 2023, Izzard announced her campaign to become the Labour candidate for Brighton Pavilion at the next general election, following the decision of the incumbent Green MP Caroline Lucas not to recontest the seat.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> On 17 December 2023, it was announced that Izzard had not been selected as a Labour candidate at the next general election and that Tom Gray would be contesting Brighton Pavilion on behalf of the Labour Party instead.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Comedic style
[edit]Izzard uses a stream-of-consciousness delivery that jumps between topics, saying in a 2004 interview with The Guardian that "it's the oral tradition [...] human beings have been doing it for thousands of years".<ref name="guardian_bedell"/> Her bent towards the surreal went so far as to produce a sitcom called Cows in 1997 for Channel 4, a live-action comedy with actors dressed in cow suits.<ref name="auntimomo_1"/> She has cited Monty Python as her biggest influence, and Python member John Cleese once referred to her as "the lost Python".<ref name="indpndnt_sweeney"/>
Personal life
[edit]Izzard identifies as genderfluid<ref name="them">Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref> and calls herself "somewhat boy-ish and somewhat girl-ish".<ref name="nails"/> She uses the word "transgender" as an umbrella term.<ref>Template:Cite AV mediaTemplate:Cbignore</ref> When asked in 2019 what pronouns she preferred, Izzard responded, "either 'he' or 'sheTemplate:' " and explained, "If I am in boy mode, then 'he', or girl mode, 'sheTemplate:'".<ref name="windy">Template:Cite web</ref> In 2020, she requested she/her pronouns for an appearance on the TV show Portrait Artist of the Year and said she wants "to be based in girl mode from now on".<ref name=SkyDec>Template:Cite web</ref> In March 2023, she announced that she would begin using the name Suzy in addition to Eddie, saying that she is "going to be Suzy Eddie Izzard".<ref name="SuzyHuffPost">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="SuzyIndependent">Template:Cite web</ref> Explaining that she had wanted to use the name Suzy since she was 10 years old, she added that people "can choose" which name they want to use to refer to her,<ref name="SuzyIndependent"/><ref name="SuzyHuffPost"/> and that she would keep using Eddie Izzard as her public name since it is more widely recognised.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In the past, Izzard identified as a transvestite and has also called herself "a lesbian trapped in a man's body"<ref name="bbc_20040517"/> and "a complete boy plus half girl".<ref name="tough"/> According to her memoir Believe Me, she 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
She started to publicly identify as transvestite in venues such as the Edinburgh Festival as early as 1992.<ref name="observer_05_2001"/><ref name="independent_lister"/> She states that the way she dresses is neither part of her performance, nor a sexual fetish: "I don't call it 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."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She remarks in Unrepeatable, "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. In preparation for that day, she has had her own genome sequenced.<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
Izzard keeps her romantic life private, citing the wishes of her companions not wanting to become content for her show.<ref name="Hollywood Commons"/> She once dated Irish singer Sarah Townsend, whom Izzard first met while running a venue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1989.<ref name="newsscotsman_hoggard"/> Townsend later created the documentary Believe: The Eddie Izzard Story.<ref name="indpndnt_burrell"/>
Izzard is an atheist. During the 2008 Stripped tour, she said, "I was warming the material up in New York, where one night, literally on stage, I realised I didn't believe in God at all. I just didn't think there was anyone upstairs."<ref name="Hollywood Commons"/> She has since described herself as a spiritual atheist, saying, "I don't believe in the guy upstairs, I believe in us."<ref>Template:Cite webTemplate:Cbignore</ref>
Izzard supports Crystal Palace and became an associate director at the club on 16 July 2012.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She is also a train modeller.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Honours
[edit]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 humour.<ref name=UEA/><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> She has also received honorary doctorates from the University of Sunderland in 2012,<ref>Nicola Weatherall, "Sunderland University to honour Eddie Izzard, Charlie Spedding and Alastair Stewart", journallive.co.uk, 5 July 2012. Retrieved 16 May 2014.</ref> York St John University in 2018,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the University of Sheffield in 2006,<ref name="shef_honrdoct"/> 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.<ref name="shef_elec2010"/>
Izzard's website won the Yahoo People's Choice Award in 2004 and a Webby Award in 2005.<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Cbignore</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
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.<ref name="channel4_1"/>
In 2013, Izzard received the 6th Annual Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which is presented at Harvard University each year by the Humanist Community at Harvard,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the American Humanist Association and the Harvard Community of Humanists, Atheists, and Agnostics.Template:Fact
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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Work
[edit]Videos
[edit]| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 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<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> |
| 18 November 2013 | Force Majeure |
| 18 February 2022 | Wunderbar |
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]Television
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1991 | Barf Bites Back | Herself | Television special |
| 1994 | Open Fire | Rich | Television film |
| 1995 | Aristophanes: The Gods are Laughing | Socrates | Television film |
| 1996 | Tales from the Crypt | Evans | Episode: "Confession" |
| 1998 | Rex the Runt | Melting Blob Man / Easter Island Head Aliens (voices) | 2 episodes |
| Monty Python Live at Aspen | Herself | Television special | |
| 1999 | Python Night – 30 Years of Monty Python | Herself | Television special |
| 2002 | Mongrel Nation | Herself | Television documentary |
| A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Bri | Television film | |
| 2003 | 40 | Ralph Outen | 3 episodes |
| 2006 | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Herself | Television special |
| 2007 | Kitchen | Nick Malone | 2-part series |
| 2007–2008 | The Riches | Wayne Malloy / Doug Rich | 20 episodes |
| 2008 | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Herself | Television special |
| 2009 | The Day of the Triffids | Torrence | 2 episodes |
| 2010 | Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man | Herself | Television special |
| The Simpsons | Nigel Bakerbutcher / Elizabeth II / Prince Charles (voices) | Episode: "To Surveil with Love" | |
| 2011 | United States of Tara | Dr. Hattarras | 8 episodes |
| The Good Wife | James Thrush | Episode: "The Death Zone" | |
| 2012 | The Secret Policeman's Ball | Herself | Television special |
| Treasure Island | Long John Silver | Television miniseries | |
| Bullet in the Face | Johann Tannhäuser | 6 episodes | |
| Mockingbird Lane | Grandpa | Television film | |
| 2013 | Meet the Izzards | Herself | Two episode documentary |
| 2013–2015 | Hannibal | Dr. Abel Gideon | 6 episodes |
| 2014 | Castles in the Sky | Robert Watson-Watt | Television film |
| 2015 | Powers | "Big Bad" Wolfe | 10 episodes |
| The Devil You Know | Thomas Putnam | Pilot | |
| 2016 | The Big Fat Quiz of Everything | Herself | Episode #1.3 |
| 2018 | Travel Man | Herself | Episode: "48 Hours in Ljubljana" |
| 2019 | The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance | Cadia (voice) | 3 episodes |
| Green Eggs and Ham | Hervnick Z. Snerz (voice) | 13 episodes | |
| 2021 | The Lost Symbol | Peter Solomon | 10 episodes |
| Stay Close | Harry Sutton | Netflix original | |
| 2022 | The Kids in the Hall | Repairman | Episode 7 |
| Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? | Herself - contestant | 1 episode | |
| 2023 | Culprits | Vincent Hawkes | Recurring role |
| 2024 | Kaos | Lachy (Lachesis) | 4 episodes |
Theatre
[edit]- 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)
- Charles Dickens' Great Expectations (2022-2023)
- Hamlet (2024)
Video games
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 102 Dalmatians: Puppies to the Rescue | Sgt. Tibbs | |
| 2011 | Cars 2 | Sir Miles Axlerod |
Bibliography
[edit]- Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens (2017), Michael Joseph, Template:ISBN.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
See also
[edit]Notes
[edit]References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]External links
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- Interview with Izzard – The Observer, 3 October 2004
- It's stupid and I love it – the Goon Show and me – The Guardian, 14 February 2005.
- Izzard interviewed by Bono – The Independent, 16 May 2006
- Venus Zine Staff Picks: Eddie Izzard, Dress to Kill
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