In September 2009 he finished the last marathon and was awarded the “BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2009” prize. With the respective national flag in hand, he ran from London to Cardiff, on to Belfast and Edinburgh and back to London, 43 marathons in 51 days. In July 2009, Izzard started a seven-week marathon across the UK to raise funds for the Sport Relief Foundation. Nevertheless, he worked as a voice actor on films such as The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian of Narnia, Igor, The Simpsons, Cars 2 and others. Since he is a bad voice imitator in his opinion, he usually limits himself on stage to imitating either James Mason or Sean Connery, regardless of whether he is playing Henry VIII or God. His first appearance in Germany was on Apin the Admiralspalast Berlin, where he also learned the German language especially for this. Izzard mainly plays in the English-speaking world, but he has also been to France several times, where he gave his show in the local language. In 2008 he appeared in the historical film Operation Walküre - The Stauffenberg Assassination at the side of Tom Cruise in the role of the German general and resistance fighter Erich Fellgiebel.
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In 20 he was the lead actor with Minnie Driver and one of the producers of the American drama series The Riches, which was discontinued after the writers' strike. Izzard got the role of grandfather in the 2012 remake of The Munster's "Mockingbird Lane". In 2001 he played the role of Charlie Chaplin on the side of Kirsten Dunst in Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow.
In 2003 he was for his role in the Broadway -Stück A Day in the Death of Joe Egg for a Tony Award nomination. After airing on American television on HBO, it received two Emmy Awards in 2000. His international breakthrough was his 1998 program Dress to Kill, for which he later published a book of the same name, a CD and a DVD. Shortly thereafter, he went on tour for the first time with a program outside the UK. In 1996 he first appeared in a movie: alongside Bob Hoskins, Patricia Arquette and Christian Bale, he starred in the thriller The Secret Agent (Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent). In the following years Izzard remained loyal to the theater, on the one hand with new comedy programs, on the other hand as a serious actor, for example in the world premiere of David Mamet's The Cryptogram or as Edward II in Christopher Marlowe 's drama of the same name. Right away, he received a lot of praise from critics and was nominated for various prizes among other things he received the British Comedy Award. Įddie Izzard at a Labor Party election rally (2015)Īfter having been on programs in the UK in the 1980s, Izzard first appeared on a comedy program in London's West End in 1993. ”He allows himself to be addressed as“ Mr. The terms man and woman seem too loaded to me. In an interview with the taz 2019, Izzard said in German: “I identify as trans and gender fluid. On the occasion of an appearance in Los Angeles in 2011, Izzard affirmed that he was transgender In 2016 he explained in more detail that he neither clearly felt himself to be a man nor a woman, but rather as both, as non-binary. Already at that time he identified himself as transgender (" transgender "), although his sexual orientation was still related to women, i.e. Izzard also began to play female roles at an early age and to appear as a transvestite and cross-dresser In 2001 he was named "Britain's Best Loved Transvestite". After school he worked as a street comedian in various places in Europe and the United States. His mother died when he was six years old. He lived in Bangor (Northern Ireland) until 1967, then in Wales and East Sussex. A few years before the British withdrew from the region (1967), his family left the country.
Izzard was born in South Yemen as the second son of a BP employee and a nurse.
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