Eddie Izzard

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Edward John Izzard (born February 7, 1962) is a British stand-up comedian and actor. Izzard has a very individual style of rambling, surreal monologue. Izzard has turned their attention to acting as well as maintaining their demanding touring schedule. Izzard was born in Aden, Yemen, as the youngest child of John and Ella Izzard. In 1963, shortly before Britain abandoned the capital of Aden, the Izzards moved to Northern Ireland. Izzard lived in Bangor, County Down until 1967, when troubles started brewing there as well, and the family moved to Skewen, Wales, and Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, England. Izzard's mother died in March, 1968, of cancer. Izzard has said that they knew they were a transgender person at the age of four, after watching a boy being forced to wear a dress by his sisters, and knew they wanted to be an actor at the age of seven. 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, Izzard spent a great deal of the early 1980s working as a street performer in Europe and the United States. Izzard says that they developed their comedic voice by talking to the audience while doing solo escape acts. Izzard then moved their act to the stand-up comedy venues of Britain, the first gig being at the Banana Cabaret in Balham, London. In 1987, Izzard made their first stage appearance at the Come

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