The Riches (2007), which lasted for two seasons on FX (from 2007-2008), and recurring roles in Hannibal (2013) and United States of Tara (2009). Izzard also has appeared in several television series, including a ![]() The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)Īnd Cars 2 (2011). Valkyrie (2008), and she has voiced roles in a handful of movies, including Her other films include The Avengers (1998), The small screen in a BBC mini-series _40 In 2003, Izzard was seen on the big screen in Alex Cox's She returned to the stage, in London and later in New York (her Broadway debut), with A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (2002), a version of which was televised. Willem Dafoe and Peter Bogdanovich's The Cat's Meow (2001), in which she played Charles Chaplin. "Lenny." Izzard started 2000 touring the world withĪnd continued to act in films, among them The Criminal (1999) Shadow of the Vampire (2000) Izzard next took on the challenge of appearing as Lenny Bruce in Which aired on HBO and earned Izzard two Emmy Awards. In 1998, Izzard appeared in another film, Velvet Goldmine (1998), with Ewan McGregor, and also staged her Which included a month in New York City at PS122. She then took "Definite Article" to major cities outside the UK, including New York, and returned to the West End with a new show, Eddie Izzard: Glorious (1997), In 1996, she made her big-screen debut alongside Bob Hoskins and Robin Williams in The Secret Agent (1996) she also staged another solo show,Įddie Izzard: Definite Article (1996), for which she received her second British Comedy Award. Izzard appeared in 1995 as the title character in Christopher Marlowe's groundbreaking "Edward II". Premiere of David Mamet's "The Cryptogram" with Lindsay Duncan her success led to her second starring role, in "900 Oneonta". She returned to the West End the next year with her second solo show,Įddie Izzard: Unrepeatable (1994), and soon thereafter made her West End debut in a drama, as the lead in the world With Eddie Izzard: Live at the Ambassadors (1993), she was nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award (outstanding achievement) and won her first British ComedyĪward for top stand-up comedian. After that, she drew bigger and bigger audiences, and in 1993 hired the Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End for the first of many successful solo shows. Izzard worked as a street performer and in smaller comedy venues throughout the mid-to-late 1980s her big break came when she appeared in Hysteria III, a 1991 AIDS fundraiser held at the London Palladium, and did her now-famous "Raised by wolves" sketch. With Circle, you probably will.Best-known for her surreal and digressive stand-up, British comedian and actor Eddie Izzard was born on February 7, 1962, in Aden, Yemen, where her English parents - Dorothy Ella, a nurse and midwife, and Harold John Izzard, an accountant - worked for British Petroleum. If you're just passing through, buy Glorious or Dressed to Kill - you won't be disappointed. Izzard next took on the challenge of appearing as Lenny Bruce in Peter Hall's West End production of 'Lenny. ![]() show, Eddie Izzard: Dress to Kill (1999) which aired on HBO and earned Izzard two Emmy Awards. ![]() If you're a fan of Eddie you've either got this already or you're going to buy it whatever I say. In 1998, Izzard appeared in another film, Velvet Goldmine (1998), with Ewan McGregor, and also staged her breakthrough solo U.S. Die-hards will enjoy seeing Eddie in a different language, but subtitled comedy isn't very funny. If you buy the DVD you'll find a behind-the-scenes look at Eddie's tour (interesting in places, but not very funny), and a French language version of one of his shows. Many of the topics he covers he has covered before - I even think I recognised a few recycled jokes in there. But in Circle, he appears to be going more for irrelevant than funny, and completely lost me in places. Everyone knows him as a completely irrelevant comic, and we all love him for it. I think the main problem is Eddie is trying too hard to be Eddie. Possibly that means I'm going into this with too high expectations, but I just didn't find Eddie funny in this outing. ![]() I think he's one of the funniest stand-ups around today.
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