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{{Infobox person | {{Infobox person | ||
| picture=Eddie Izzard comes to Crouch End.jpg | | picture = Eddie Izzard comes to Crouch End.jpg | ||
| caption=Izzard at a Labour Party rally in 2015. | | caption = Izzard at a Labour Party rally in 2015. | ||
| date_birth=7 February 1962 | | date_birth = 7 February 1962 | ||
| place_birth=Colony of Aden [now Yemen] | | place_birth = Colony of Aden [now Yemen] | ||
| nationality=English | | nationality = English | ||
| pronouns="If I am in boy mode then 'he' or girl mode 'she.'"<ref name="Nunn">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard works Wunderbar in Chicago |last=Nunn |first=Jerry |work=Windy City Times |date=2019-05-24 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Eddie-Izzard-works-Wunderbar-in-Chicago-/66141.html}}</ref> | | pronouns = "If I am in boy mode then 'he' or girl mode 'she.'"<ref name="Nunn">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard works Wunderbar in Chicago |last=Nunn |first=Jerry |work=Windy City Times |date=2019-05-24 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/Eddie-Izzard-works-Wunderbar-in-Chicago-/66141.html}}</ref> <br/>"I just want to be based in girl mode from now on."<ref name="pronouns2020">{{url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/6133/eddie-izzard-pronouns/}}</ref> | ||
| gender=* "[[transgender]] guy"<ref name="comingout2016">{{Cite web |title=Eddie on coming out as transgender - Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man |author=BBC Three |work=YouTube |date=14 March 2016 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKUJIoeZpw}}</ref> | | gender = * "[[transgender]] guy"<ref name="comingout2016">{{Cite web |title=Eddie on coming out as transgender - Eddie Izzard: Marathon Man |author=BBC Three |work=YouTube |date=14 March 2016 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKUJIoeZpw}}</ref> | ||
* "100% boy, plus extra girl"<ref name="Garrison">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs” |last=Garrison |first=Becky |work=Religion Dispatches |date=8 March 2013 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://religiondispatches.org/eddie-izzard-on-atheism-transgender-and-the-invisible-bloke-upstairs/}}</ref> | * "100% boy, plus extra girl"<ref name="Garrison">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard on Atheism, Transgender, and “The Invisible Bloke Upstairs” |last=Garrison |first=Becky |work=Religion Dispatches |date=8 March 2013 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://religiondispatches.org/eddie-izzard-on-atheism-transgender-and-the-invisible-bloke-upstairs/}}</ref> | ||
* "kind of gender fluid"<ref name="Nunn" /> | * "kind of gender fluid"<ref name="Nunn" /> | ||
* "I identify somewhat boy-ish and somewhat girl-ish."<ref name="comingout2016" /><ref name="Ruby">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard gives inspiring speech on being transgender as he takes a break from marathon to get his nails done |last=Ruby |first=Jennifer |work=Evening Standard |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/eddie-izzard-gives-inspiring-speech-on-being-transgender-as-he-takes-a-break-from-marathon-to-get-a3204136.html }}</ref> | * "I identify somewhat boy-ish and somewhat girl-ish."<ref name="comingout2016" /><ref name="Ruby">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard gives inspiring speech on being transgender as he takes a break from marathon to get his nails done |last=Ruby |first=Jennifer |work=Evening Standard |date=15 March 2016 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/celebrity-news/eddie-izzard-gives-inspiring-speech-on-being-transgender-as-he-takes-a-break-from-marathon-to-get-a3204136.html }}</ref> | ||
| occupation=comedian, actor, writer, activist | | occupation = comedian, actor, writer, activist | ||
| known_for= | | known_for = | ||
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'''Edward John Izzard''' is an English stand-up comedian, actor, writer, and political activist. | '''Edward John 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 had a starring role in the television series ''The Riches'' as Wayne Malloy and 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'' among other movies. She has also worked as a voice actor in ''The Wild'', ''Igor'', ''The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian'', ''Cars 2'', ''The Lego Batman Movie'', ''Abominable'', and many others. | |||
Izzard has won numerous awards including a Primetime Emmy Award for Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program for | Izzard 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, in 2000. Izzard's website won the Yahoo People's Choice Award and earned the Webby Award. | ||
In 2009, | In 2009, she completed 43 marathons in 51 days for Sport Relief despite having no history of long-distance running. | ||
Izzard has campaigned for various causes and has been a Labour Party activist for most of | Izzard has campaigned for various causes and has been a Labour Party activist for most of her adult life. She twice 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. | ||
Izzard describes | Izzard describes herself as a "transgender guy"<ref name="comingout2016" /> having "boy genetics and girl genetics".<ref name="loose">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard on Why It Was Important for Him to Come Out |author=Loose Women |work=YouTube |date=30 June 2017 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2rYR0n5zTQ}}</ref> In the past when terminology was different, Izzard identified as a [[transvestite]]<ref name="londonreal">{{Citation|title=DEALING WITH TRANSGENDER REACTIONS - Eddie Izzard on London Real|date=14 December 2015|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPPaMazpf0|accessdate=12 October 2017}}</ref>, and has also called herself "a lesbian trapped in a man's body"<ref name="lifestory">{{Cite web |title=Comic Izzard promoting life story |author= |work=BBC News |date=17 May 2004 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3720385.stm}}</ref>, a "male lesbian", and "a complete boy plus half girl".<ref name="tough">{{Cite web |title=Eddie Izzard: The tough transvestite who can take care of himself |author= |work=The Independent |date=23 May 2004 |access-date=17 May 2020 |url= https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/eddie-izzard-the-tough-transvestite-who-can-take-care-of-himself-61326.html}}</ref> | ||
Izzard's stance is that the way | Izzard's stance is that the way she dresses is neither part of her performance nor a sexual fetish. She said "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 name="Visco">{{cite web|last=Visco|first=Gerry|title=Eddie Izzard, Force of Nature|url=http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/eddie-izzard|work=Interview|accessdate=17 May 2020|date=19 May 2014}}</ref> 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.<ref name="Garrison" /><ref name="londonreal" /> | ||
In 2020 on the TV programme ''Portrait Artist of the Year'' she said she wanted to be "based in girl mode from now on" and referred to with she/her pronouns.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/6133/eddie-izzard-pronouns/|title=Eddie Izzard is now using 'she' and 'her' pronouns|last=Guide|first=British Comedy|date=2020-12-20|website=British Comedy Guide|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-12-20}}</ref> | |||
==Quotes== | ==Quotes== | ||